New Jenkins book or remind me to never engage in a battle of wits with Jenkins

Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!! · Jul 20, 2009

Golf writer emeritus Dan Jenkins has a new book coming out. It is really a rehash of Majors coverage, but still ... It's pretty much a greatest list list by one of the best.

http://www.courier-journal.com/blogs/crawford/2009/07/must-read-on-golfs-majors.html#comments

When asked to rank his putting on a scale of 1 to 10, Sergio says he's a "15." He's not only a bad putter, he flunked arithmetic.

On the morning of the last round of the 1996 Masters, smart money knew to have several leads handy because we were dealing with a Greg Norman thing. Every possibility from his planter's hat being found floating in Rae's Creek to Greg finaly winning and hopping into one of his helicopters and skywriting a message to his favorite group of people: "Put this in Your Pressroom, You Middle-Income Jerks."

Later, Jenkins went to his wedge.

"One the one hand, you could appreciate why Faldo hugged Greg on the final green. Why wouldn't you hug a guy who's been so nice to you? Or it could have been a Heimlich maneuver -- what do you think?

Jenkins concludes:

In Augusta, it was good of Greg to remind us in his post-Masters interview that his financial worth is still in the $40 million range, and that he still considers himself a winner, and that he's still a perfectionist. To which he added, "I feel confident in my belief and my approach to whatever I do that I can do it. If I wanted to be a brain surgeon and take the time to study that, I could."

Maybe so, but he wouldn't operate on this cowboy -- not on Sunday's anyhow.