Dan Jenkins

“Of course, Dwight D. Eisenhower gets credit for doing more for golf than any other White House resident, a mid- to high-handicapper though he was.”

“The U.S. won the majors 29-11 in the 1980s. That's when Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus were carrying the ball, and when Seve Ballesteros was becoming a Brit in the minds of English and Scottish journalists.”

“Players don't usually like anybody who makes more money than they do.”

“If you want to put golf back on the front pages again, and you don't have a Bobby Jones or a Francis Ouimet handy, here's what you do: You send an aging Jack Nicklaus out in the last round of the Masters and let him kill more foreigners than a general named Eisenhower.”

“The Masters is a sell-out annually, and even the scalpers mind their manners.”

“I haven't looked for a golf ball since mulligans were free, which was a law I passed in 1995.”

“There have been so many great tournaments that I've been privileged to see, and people paid me to go watch, that I'm awfully grateful for it.”

“The recreational golfer who gives it careful thought will conclude that the favorite golf hole in his life played downhill, gradually or severely, and normally was downwind as well.”

“Marty Russo was too good a golfer to be a servant of the people.”

“The ocean-bordered southern part of California has always been a place of Hollywood make-believe, casual opulence, suntans and jewelry.”

“I think newspapers will survive in some form or another.”

“There's usually one piece in 'Vanity Fair' every month that grabs me, but when it presents hatchet jobs without substantiation to impress its liberal friends, I laugh first, then toss.”

“I don't know how television or radio is going to survive without newspapers because that's where they get all their news. It's going to be hopeless.”

“I hate political correctness.”

“Golf was never a religion to me.”

“I just come from a school where you have to win something to be accepted.”

“Sally Jenkins of the 'Washington Post' is the best sports columnist in the country. Second best is Gene Wojciechowski of ESPN.com, and third is Dan Wetzel on Yahoo!”

“I'd rather be doing something than not doing something.”

“The Masters, while it has slowly gained equal importance as a major, isn't really the championship of anything.”

“Even as a little kid, I was fascinated by newspapers and magazines. They were my TV. I'd be the first one up to grab the morning paper, mainly to look at the sports pictures, the war pictures.”