Dan Jenkins

Baseball would be a better game if more third basemen got hit in the mouth by line drivers.

— Dan Jenkins

“It was a hot sticky night in Barcelona and all the good whores had the summer flu.”

— Dan Jenkins

Fort Worth is friendly; it's still a Texas town. It's the most Texas city in Texas.

— Dan Jenkins

Golf is 90% mental. Once you know how to hold the club, swing it, it's all in the mind.

— Dan Jenkins

If a caddie can help you, you don't know how to play golf.

— Dan Jenkins

I actually don't have a single regret, professionally or domestically. I planned it that way.

— Dan Jenkins

I haven't looked for a golf ball since mulligans were free, which was a law I passed in 1995.

— Dan Jenkins

The Masters, while it has slowly gained equal importance as a major, isn't really the championship of anything.

— Dan Jenkins

Among the many things that have slipped up on me while my back was turned are all of these challenging and well-manicured…

— Dan Jenkins

Anybody can make jokes. But unless they come from conviction, and there's truth in them, you haven't nailed it. They aren't as…

— Dan Jenkins

Who is the best the sportswriter who wore shorts? I keep trying to envision Grantland Rice or John Lardner in shorts. It…

— Dan Jenkins

Prescott Bush was himself a president of the U. S. Golf Association at one time - 1935 - before he became a…

— Dan Jenkins

It must be the PGA Championship if it's August and you can sit down and talk to the heat or reach inside…

— Dan Jenkins

The U.S. won the majors 29-11 in the 1980s. That's when Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus were carrying the ball, and when…

— Dan Jenkins

If you see a player out in public having dinner, chances are he's with his boring money manager or some boring rich…

— Dan Jenkins

The greatly anticipated 2009 Masters was like going to a Broadway hit and finding out that the star, Sir Tiger Woods, was…

— Dan Jenkins

First, I thought Twitter was some kind of hybrid car being developed by Government Motors. Then I thought it was a new…

— Dan Jenkins

I can only tell you that eggs, country ham, biscuits, a pot of coffee, a morning paper, a table by the window…

— Dan Jenkins

The reason I wrote about women's golf is because I've helped out some with the Kathy Whitworth Cup, a tournament they have…

— Dan Jenkins

If you want to put golf back on the front pages again, and you don't have a Bobby Jones or a Francis…

— Dan Jenkins

In a story, you have to have a theme and an angle, you have to have a beginning, middle and an end.…

— Dan Jenkins

Much of the fire with him [Ben Hogan] was lit by Byron Nelson, who came from the same town - the same…

— Dan Jenkins

When I was a lad in my 20s, as carefree and debonair as any other underpaid newspaperman, I happened to be a…

— Dan Jenkins

Tennis was a game invented by a woman named Samantha Tennis in 1839, in the village of Lobsworth, County of Kent, as…

— Dan Jenkins

Real golf is the 20 million people who play once a week or once a month.

— Dan Jenkins

I don't cover golf tournaments anymore - I preside over them.

— Dan Jenkins

Kids flew B-17s in daylight bombing raids over Germany in World War II. Kids fought in Korea and Vietnam.

— Dan Jenkins

I used to never miss the 'New Yorker' or 'New York.' Now I never bother.

— Dan Jenkins

My life has been very lucky, but I made some of that luck.

— Dan Jenkins

Always keep in mind that if God didn't want a man to have mulligans, golf balls wouldn't come three to a sleeve.

— Dan Jenkins

Players don't usually like anybody who makes more money than they do.

— Dan Jenkins

I like to be entertained, not smothered with 'literary' riddles.

— Dan Jenkins

Only two things can stop Tiger — injury or a bad marriage.

— Dan Jenkins

I just come from a school where you have to win something to be accepted.

— Dan Jenkins

Here's all I know about Dubai: It's one of those somewhere-over-there places where they make sand.

— Dan Jenkins

The Masters is a sell-out annually, and even the scalpers mind their manners.

— Dan Jenkins

I probably remember the 1954 Masters more vividly than any of the others.

— Dan Jenkins

Putting is not an art, it's a dreaded evil. No wise man ever said that.

— Dan Jenkins

Marty Russo was too good a golfer to be a servant of the people.

— Dan Jenkins

There have been so many great moments in golf that you even forget some of them.

— Dan Jenkins