- Paperback: 352 pages
- Publisher: Anchor; 1 edition (Jun 1 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0767925297
- ISBN-13: 978-0767925297
- Product Dimensions: 13.2 x 1.9 x 20.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 272 g
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"No one is funnier or more knowledgeable about golf than Dan Jenkins."--Wall Street Journal
"Carl Hiaasen calls Dan Jenkins 'probably the funniest sports journalist ever.' No argument here."--The New York Times
"No one has captured the essential lunacy of the twentieth-century sports scene as accurately and hilariously."--Los Angeles Times
"Hotter than a habanero pepper. . . . Jenkins brings a passion for the game and a committed intelligence to his coverage."--Richmond Times-Dispatch
"For style, outrageous humor and longevity, it's hard to top Dan Jenkins." --Newsday
“His writing and his ear recall—there is no higher compliment—Ring Lardner, though in different times and different Americas.”—David Halberstam, New York Times Book Review
"Jenkins ranks with the best and most influential sportswriters of the 20th century."--Gary VanSickle, Golf.com
"Jenkins takes us inside the world of golf like no one else."--Sacramento Bee
“Jenkins is hilarious, providing more laughs per page than any other writer in the ‘bidness.’”—People
"Carl Hiaasen calls Dan Jenkins 'probably the funniest sports journalist ever.' No argument here."--The New York Times
"No one has captured the essential lunacy of the twentieth-century sports scene as accurately and hilariously."--Los Angeles Times
"Hotter than a habanero pepper. . . . Jenkins brings a passion for the game and a committed intelligence to his coverage."--Richmond Times-Dispatch
"For style, outrageous humor and longevity, it's hard to top Dan Jenkins." --Newsday
“His writing and his ear recall—there is no higher compliment—Ring Lardner, though in different times and different Americas.”—David Halberstam, New York Times Book Review
"Jenkins ranks with the best and most influential sportswriters of the 20th century."--Gary VanSickle, Golf.com
"Jenkins takes us inside the world of golf like no one else."--Sacramento Bee
“Jenkins is hilarious, providing more laughs per page than any other writer in the ‘bidness.’”—People
Product Description
Legendary sports writer Dan Jenkins delivers a golf history lesson that is unrivaled in its scope and style.
In this seminal collection, Dan Jenkins has selected the funniest and most riveting stories from his epic career as a writer for Sports Illustrated and Golf Digest, where his wry reportage of golf’s most thrilling finishes, historic moments, and heartbreaking collapses brought legions of fans intimately close to the action. All the greatest moments of golf over the last sixty years are here: Jack Nicklaus at Pebble Beach, Arnold Palmer at Cherry Hills, Ben Hogan and Sam Snead at Oakmont, and of course Tiger Woods, just about everywhere. As much about journalism and watching the growth of one of our most cherished sports writers, as it is about the great game of golf, Jenkins at the Majors is a must read for sports fans and golfers alike.
In this seminal collection, Dan Jenkins has selected the funniest and most riveting stories from his epic career as a writer for Sports Illustrated and Golf Digest, where his wry reportage of golf’s most thrilling finishes, historic moments, and heartbreaking collapses brought legions of fans intimately close to the action. All the greatest moments of golf over the last sixty years are here: Jack Nicklaus at Pebble Beach, Arnold Palmer at Cherry Hills, Ben Hogan and Sam Snead at Oakmont, and of course Tiger Woods, just about everywhere. As much about journalism and watching the growth of one of our most cherished sports writers, as it is about the great game of golf, Jenkins at the Majors is a must read for sports fans and golfers alike.
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Good bedtime reading for the golf fan, May 25 2009
By Mark Wilsonwood - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Jenkins at the Majors: Sixty Years of the World's Best Golf Writing, from Hogan to Tiger (Hardcover)
This book is a collection of short articles about the golf majors during Jenkins' career that spanned the 50s through the 00s (and is still going by the way). As such, it makes perfect bed-time reading. Three or four of the 94 "episodes" is just about right before turning out the light.Jenkins is a prime example of the "old-fashioned" sportswriter, wrting in his humorous yet insightful down-home Texas style.
I have just two complaints: First, that Jenkins repeatedly includes the U.S. Amateur when counting major wins for Nicklaus, Woods, et al. The Amateur was a major when Bobby Jones won it. It had lost that status by the time Nicklaus won two in the late 50s. And it had LONG AGO lost that status when Woods won his in the 90s.
Second, Jenkins accepts Ben Hogan's claim that he (Hogan) won 5 U.S. Opens -- with Hogan, Jenkins, and pretty much nobody else counting the 1942 Hale American Open as a "war-time Open". Sorry, it was not the Open and not a major. Just as the Players Championship is not a major today.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
Good reading, but some puzzling math, Dec 14 2009
By D. Jones - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Jenkins at the Majors: Sixty Years of the World's Best Golf Writing, from Hogan to Tiger (Hardcover)
Arnold Palmers win at the 1960 Masters: Venturi finished at 283, Finsterwald at 284, but Jenkins writes that Finsterwald would have tied Venturi if he had not been assessed a 2-stroke penalty in the first round that changed a 69 to a 71. That doesn't add up! Later in the same article, he writes that a Palmer birdie on #17 pulled him within one shot of Venturi, and then Palmer sank the winning birdie putt on #18. If he trailed by one shot, a birdie would have tied him with Venturi. ????? Who proof-read this chapter?
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
A Birdie, Aug 25 2009
By Mahlon Christensen - Published on Amazon.com
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Dan Jenkins is the dean of American golf writers, by his count he's covered 197 Major Championships over 60 years for various publications, beginning with the 1951 U. S. Open, he has selected 94 of the best for our perusal. What lifts this book above the usual collections of columns by sportswriters is it's superb organization. It's organized chronologically so that it's easy for the reader to follow the march of golf history forward. It's a fast, fun read, the columns are short so the pages really fly by, this could also be seen as a negative however, as the medium of a column rarely offers one the space to give an in-depth, hole-by hole account of who won and how. Jenkins is usually limited to who won, by how much, and the general impression the tournament left him with. Luckily for us, thanks to his considerable skills, this feels like more than enough in most cases.Jenkins at the Majors is absolutely essential reading for anyone who loves the game, especially for those fans whose golf consciousness began in the Tiger era.
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