On May 7 in St. Au�gus�tine, FL, golf writer Dan Jenkins will join Ber�nard Darwin and Herbert War�ren Wind as the third face on what the Augusta Chronicle cleverly called "golf writing's Mount Rushmore."  | Dan Jenkins in 1962
Author of "The Dogged Victims of Inexorable Fate"
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At the Masters last week, Jenkins told the press that he went through the list of the 140 people other than himself in the hall and figured out that he has "known personally 92 of them. I played golf with a bunch of them. Ate and drank with a bunch of them. That doesn't qualify me to get in (The Hall of Fame), but I think covering 200 majors does." The Augusta Chronicle's article (click here for link to Masters Coverage) continued that Jenkins has covered 210 major championships for all manner of newspapers and magazines starting with the 1951 Masters and U.S. Open. In Herbert Warren Wind's Foreword from the Classics of Golf version of one of Jenkins most well-known books (aside from his football novel "Semi-Tough")"The Dogged Victims of Inexorable Fate", Wind writes... "When people across the  |
Classics of Golf version of Jenkins' classic novel ($40.00)
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Includes Foreword
by Herbert Warren Wind
and Afterword by Dave Marr
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country read Jenkins' right-after-the-event articles, they marvel at their off-beat introductions, the humor which illuminates the reportage, the soundness of his treatment of the principal figures and the core of the action, the idiosyncratic asides that he tosses in because he likes them, and an ending that is sometimes ironic and at other times echoes a point he has made."
Wind continues about the book that after a dense start the piece shifts "into free-wheeling, acute observations on the renowned championship courses, the peculiar mores of Scottish golfers and club secretaries, and other such distillations as seen through the eyes of a percipient Texan who is loving every gulp of the game's astonishing past and present."
This year marks his 62nd consecutive Masters, tying him with the late Furman Bisher - who died weeks ago at age 93 - for most covered. Bisher came to his first Masters in 1950, when Jimmy Demaret won his third and final invitational. Jenkins started a year later when his hometown hero Ben Hogan won his first of two in 1951. Click here to order your copy of this great golf book today at the Classics of Golf website. | 
