Jenkins at the Majors

Zusatztext "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 recallthere is no higher complimentRing 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 Informationen zum Autor DAN JENKINS, an award-winning writer for Sports Illustrated for more than twenty years, is the author of nineteen works of fiction and nonfiction, including Semi-Tough , Dead Solid Perfect , Baja Oklahoma , Life Its Ownself , Rude Behavior , Fairways and Greens , Slim and None, and most recently, The Franchise Babe . He currently writes a popular column for Golf Digest and now lives full-time in his native Fort Worth, Texas. Klappentext 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. Leseprobe 1 MONSTER BROUGHT TO ITS KNEES Ben Hogan at the 1951 U.S. Open at Oakland Hills Ben Hogan shot the greatest round of his life--maybe of anyone's life--a stunning three-under 67 in the final round of the U.S. Open championship to win it yet again, this time on the torturous layout of Oakland Hills Country Club near Detroit, but mostly what he wanted to talk about afterward was why people watch golf in the first place. Goodness, don't they have something better to do? "The golf fan really has my respect," Ben said. "They go out there and get sunburned or rained on, they push each other around, they stand until their backs ache, and I just can't understand how they do it." He said, "There were probably twenty thousand people out there in the last round, and fifteen thousand of them didn't see anything. There is this couple from Orange, New Jersey, that's followed me for, well, I don't know for how long. They always seem to turn up where I'm playing, and I can always spot them in the crowd." Interesting to hear this from the man who is supposed to concentrate so deeply that walking from green to tee he's been accused on occasion of failing to recognize his wife, Valerie, when he encountered her. Hogan went on, "There's a man from Tyler who's been watching me play for more than 10 years....

"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

Autorentext

DAN JENKINS, an award-winning writer for Sports Illustrated for more than twenty years, is the author of nineteen works of fiction and nonfiction, including Semi-Tough, Dead Solid Perfect, Baja Oklahoma, Life Its Ownself, Rude Behavior, Fairways and Greens, Slim and None, and most recently, The Franchise Babe. He currently writes a popular column for Golf Digest and now lives full-time in his native Fort Worth, Texas.

Klappentext

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.

Leseprobe
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MONSTER BROUGHT TO ITS KNEES
Ben Hogan at the 1951 U.S. Open at Oakland Hills

Ben Hogan shot the greatest round of his life--maybe of anyone's life--a stunning three-under 67 in the final round of the U.S. Open championship to win it yet again, this time on the torturous layout of Oakland Hills Country Club near Detroit, but mostly what he wanted to talk about afterward was why people watch golf in the first place. Goodness, don't they have something better to do?
"The golf fan really has my respect," Ben said. "They go out there and get sunburned or rained on, they push each other around, they stand until their backs ache, and I just can't understand how they do it."

He said, "There were probably twenty thousand people out there in the last round, and fifteen thousand of them didn't see anything. There is this couple from Orange, New Jersey, that's followed me for, well, I don't know for how long. They always seem to turn up where I'm playing, and I can always spot them in the crowd."

Interesting to hear this from the man who is supposed to concentrate so deeply that walking from green to tee he's been accused on occasion of failing to recognize his wife, Valerie, when he encountered her.

Hogan went on, "There's a man from Tyler who's been watching me play for more than 10 years. And there's a fellow from Memphis--I don't even know his name--he's always in my gallery. I like to watch college football. You can see everything in reasonable comfort, and it only takes about three hours. But golf . . . I don't know."

Those who watched the golf at Oakland Hills saw the greatest player in the game win on what …