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Dan Jenkins Had ItMy relationship with Dan Jenkins goes back decades, and it is a simple one. He wrote words and I read them over and over again. I have no strained connection with him that would somehow label me as more blessed or important for knowing him. I know people I like very much who knew him, that’s all. I ...

Tiger Woods Melts Down Over Gentle Satire The Players' Tribune justified its existence this afternoon when guest contributor Tiger Woods published a screeching rebuttal to a disposable piece of satire in this month's Golf Digest. Why rely on Twitter as the middleman for athletes' unhinged rants when you can get them directly from the sour...

The great Dan Jenkins, stuck in Fort Worth on doctor's orders, is missing his first golf major in 45 years. His daughter, Sally, is there with him, and her column on Friday was, to coin a phrase, dead solid perfect. [WaPo]...

Mankind's 10 Stages Of Drunkenness, According To Our Best Sportswriter

In honor of his new book (and in grudging acknowledgment of Frat Boy Thanksgiving), we give you Dan Jenkins's famous list, from Baja Oklahoma:...

Ben Hogan Isn't Walking Out Of That Sand Trap

And speaking of Dan Jenkins, our pal Bryan Curtis recently profiled him for Grantland. It's worth your time:...

The Masters Its Ownself

Dan Jenkins's His Ownself: A Semi-Memoir was published last week, which is as good an excuse as any to go spelunking through the back pages of one of our finest and funniest sportswriters. Here's a classic from the April 1985 issue of Golf Digest, anthologized in Jenkins's Fairways and Greens. Repri...

Dan Jenkins: His Ownself

Dwight Gardner reviews Dan Jenkins' memoir, His Ownself: A Semi-Memoir today in the Times: ...

Bud Shrake In The Land Of The Permanent Wave

Bryan Curtis wrote a nice story about Dan Jenkins, Edwin "Bud" Shrake, and their alma mater for Texas Monthly in 2008:...