{"id":3505,"date":"2019-03-08T17:24:03","date_gmt":"2019-03-09T01:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/?p=3505"},"modified":"2019-03-29T19:44:54","modified_gmt":"2019-03-30T02:44:54","slug":"dan-jenkins-1929-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/dan-jenkins-1929-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan Jenkins, 1928-2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Renowned golf writer and member of the World Golf Hall of Fame (2012) Dan Jenkins passed away on March 7 at the age of 89. <\/p>\n

Read his obituary in the New York Times<\/a> and the Fort Worth Star-Telegram<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And this tribute from Golf World<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Read also his hilarious “interview”<\/a> with Tiger Woods which the then imperial personality did not find to be amusing. Be sure to listen to his monologue below the end of the article.<\/p>\n

Jenkins’s novel, Semi-Tough<\/em>, about pro football, was made into a movie starring Burt Reynolds, Kris Kristofferson, and Jill Clayburgh.<\/p>\n

Another of his novels, Dead Solid Perfect<\/em>, about professional golf, was filmed as well, starring Randy Quaid and Kathryn Harrold.<\/p>\n

And finally, read his account of the stroke-play qualifying for the Greatest of All Time Invitational, played starting March 20 at the Augusta National Golf Club. It’s in the April 2109 Golf Digest<\/em>, with Jordan Spieth on the cover. The article is likely Jenkins’s final piece of golf writing. It will leave you in stitches. What a gift to leave to us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Renowned golf writer and member of the World Golf Hall of Fame (2012) Dan Jenkins passed away on March 7 at the age of 89. Read his obituary in the New York Times and the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. And this tribute from Golf World. Read also his hilarious “interview” with Tiger Woods which the then … Continue reading Dan Jenkins, 1928-2019<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4qtRQ-Ux","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3505"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3522,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3505\/revisions\/3522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}