Q&A With Dan Jenkins, Vol. 4

This has become an annual tradition of sorts, checking in with the Ancient Twitterer, inevitable World Golf Hall Of Famer and still the only golf writer to have his own bobblehead. You can read the past Q&A's here, here and here and during next week's U.S. Open, you can follow him on Twitter here. As a friend of mine said yesterday when discussing the marvels of Twitter: "It's like having Dan Jenkins in my living room watching the Open with me."

GS: Any fond memories of the Congressional's U.S. Opens?

DJ: I recall being happy for Venturi at Congressional because I'd covered him losing the Masters 3 times when I was certain he would win it each time---it seemed to me he'd played the best golf. Always rooting for the story, '56 was particularly distressing, In a 30-mile-an-hour wind, he never really hit a bad shot but slowly bled to death with that final-round 80 and denied all of us typists an opportunity to write about the first amateur winning a major since Johnny Goodman at the 1933 Open. And I had my lead ready: "Ken Venturi just got out of the used car business."


GS: It's Saturday of this year's U.S. Open and you have a choice between watching the third round at Congressional or Obama v. Boehner whapping it around at Andrews Air Force Base. What do you choose?

DJ: I wouldn't watch politicians do anything if it was happening in my retina.


GS: Any books in the works you can tell us about?

DJ: I'm working on a "journalism memoir." And it's slow going. You have to be accurate. In fiction, you can just play away and not asking anybody anything.


GS: How have your sleep patterns been since learning of IMG's swift axing of Mark Steinberg and Tiger?

DJ: Life is full of disappointments. First Steinberg and Tiger, then Anthony Weiner. Not sure I'll be able to recover.


GS: Tiger WD's and your injury and bad marriage prediction as the only stoppers becomes even more prescient. Where does this soap opera go from here?

DJ: Tiger's road back should start with firing Sean Foley and never hiring another guru. All of us golfers understand one thing. Those triple bogeys and 42s on nine holes will sure make the old knees and heels act up. Onward to D.C.