"Dan Jenkins is not in the World Golf Hall of Fame. Are you serious?"

Frank Chirkinian's passing and Hall of Fame induction prompted John Feinstein to wonder what the Hall is doing taking so long to induct some golf writers.

Jenkins is to writing about golf what Jack Nicklaus was to playing golf. There’s never been anybody better and, if you trace his contributions to the game through his writing, you can’t possibly make the claim that he doesn’t belong in the Hall of Fame.

Jenkins isn’t the only one – although his absence is the most glaring. The late Jim Murray made golf writing an art form in the Los Angeles Times for decades. Murray was so good and so respected that when Curtis Strange was the No. 1 player in the world and looked up and saw Murray following his group one day at the Bob Hope he positively glowed.

“Jim Murray out there watching ME,” he said. “It was one of my great thrills.”

Strange got it – how come the Hall of Fame doesn’t get it?