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title: "5 Course Quotes By Dan Jenkins"
description: "5 Course quotes by Dan Jenkins. Plus more from Dan Jenkins and more Course sayings from other authors."
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> [I gather most people don't remember that when the U.S. Open first went to Pebble Beach in 1972, a big deal was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-jenkins/i-gather-most-people-don-t-remember-that-when-the-u-s-open-first-went/)

[Dan Jenkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-jenkins/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/53e/dan-jenkins-3942_beach_i-gather-most-people-don-t-remember-that_990659.png)

> [Of course, Dwight D. Eisenhower gets credit for doing more for golf than any other White House resident, a mid- to high-handicapper…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-jenkins/of-course-dwight-d-eisenhower-gets-credit-for-doing-more-for-golf/)

[Dan Jenkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-jenkins/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ddc/dan-jenkins-3942_any_of-course-dwight-d-eisenhower-gets-credi_1042699.jpg)

> [You can't have a U.S. Open anymore without an extra course to store all the hospitality tents. I used to be able…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-jenkins/you-can-t-have-a-u-s-open-anymore-without-an-extra-course-to-store/)

[Dan Jenkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-jenkins/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/22c/dan-jenkins-3942_able_you-can-t-have-a-u-s-open-anymore-withou_1418784.png)

> [Nobody can make a putt that breaks to the right. It's unnatural. Unless you're left-handed, of course. Standing over a putt that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-jenkins/nobody-can-make-a-putt-that-breaks-to-the-right-it-s-unnatural-unless/)

[Dan Jenkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-jenkins/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b99/dan-jenkins-3942_actually_nobody-can-make-a-putt-that-breaks-to-th_2294670.jpg)

> [If you see a player out in public having dinner, chances are he's with his boring money manager or some boring rich…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-jenkins/if-you-see-a-player-out-in-public-having-dinner-chances-are-he-s-with/)

[Dan Jenkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-jenkins/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/676/dan-jenkins-3942_boring_if-you-see-a-player-out-in-public-having_2824129.png)

## Other authors on Course

## More by Dan Jenkins

> [My aunt got me interested in journalism - she found an old typewriter, had it worked over, put it on the dining room table,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-jenkins/my-aunt-got-me-interested-in-journalism-she-found-an-old-typewriter/)

[Dan Jenkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-jenkins/)

> [You count a man's U.S. Amateur titles after he starts winning professional majors. That's something any intelligent golf writer with a sense of history…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-jenkins/you-count-a-man-s-u-s-amateur-titles-after-he-starts-winning/)

[Dan Jenkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-jenkins/)

> [Golf was never a religion to me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-jenkins/golf-was-never-a-religion-to-me/)

[Dan Jenkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-jenkins/)

> [If a caddie can help you, you don't know how to play golf.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-jenkins/if-a-caddie-can-help-you-you-don-t-know-how-to-play-golf/)

[Dan Jenkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-jenkins/)

> [There was a time when caddies couldn't wear shorts.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-jenkins/there-was-a-time-when-caddies-couldn-t-wear-shorts/)

[Dan Jenkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-jenkins/)

> [The Masters, while it has slowly gained equal importance as a major, isn't really the championship of anything.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-jenkins/the-masters-while-it-has-slowly-gained-equal-importance-as-a-major/)

[Dan Jenkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-jenkins/)

> [Lonnie says it doesn't take long to write a song if you're stricken with a severe case of the Tennysons. He wasn't necessarily talking…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-jenkins/lonnie-says-it-doesn-t-take-long-to-write-a-song-if-you-re-stricken/)

[Dan Jenkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-jenkins/)

> [If you're a friend or a relative of George Herbert Walker Bush, Prez 41, or George W. Bush, Prez 43, or any other Bushes,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-jenkins/if-you-re-a-friend-or-a-relative-of-george-herbert-walker-bush-prez/)

[Dan Jenkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-jenkins/)

> [There are no Dave Marrs anymore.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-jenkins/there-are-no-dave-marrs-anymore/)

[Dan Jenkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-jenkins/)

> [I just come from a school where you have to win something to be accepted.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-jenkins/i-just-come-from-a-school-where-you-have-to-win-something-to-be/)

[Dan Jenkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-jenkins/)

> [There have been so many great tournaments that I've been privileged to see, and people paid me to go watch, that I'm awfully grateful…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-jenkins/there-have-been-so-many-great-tournaments-that-i-ve-been-privileged/)

[Dan Jenkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-jenkins/)

> [Until Sammy Baugh - pro football in Texas was a one-paragraph story on the third page of the Monday sports section.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-jenkins/until-sammy-baugh-pro-football-in-texas-was-a-one-paragraph-story-on/)

[Dan Jenkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-jenkins/)

> [Historians tell us that a gentleman named John Ball once captured eight British Amateur titles.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-jenkins/historians-tell-us-that-a-gentleman-named-john-ball-once-captured/)

[Dan Jenkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-jenkins/)

> [Who is the best the sportswriter who wore shorts? I keep trying to envision Grantland Rice or John Lardner in shorts. It never occurred…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-jenkins/who-is-the-best-the-sportswriter-who-wore-shorts-i-keep-trying-to/)

[Dan Jenkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-jenkins/)

> [High school golf, college golf and the decade that followed all come back to me now as one big raucous, goofy gangsome.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-jenkins/high-school-golf-college-golf-and-the-decade-that-followed-all-come/)

[Dan Jenkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-jenkins/)

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