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A prolific author and golf columnist, Dan Jenkins sponsors an annual charity golf tournament that attracts players from around the world. In his follow-up novel to Dead Solid Perfect, Jenkins offers his fans another spirited account of life in the PGA.

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Jenkins at the Majors
Written by Dan Jenkins

Trade Paperback | 352 pages | Anchor | Sports & Recreation - Golf
978-0-7679-2529-7 (0-7679-2529-7)

June 1, 2010 | $19.00

(Available June 1, 2010)


Six decades of classic stories on the Masters, U.S. Open, British Open, and PGA Championship by the legendary Dan Jenkins

Dan Jenkins has long been considered one of the premier sportswriters in America. Honored and imitated by generations of his peers, Jenkins’s wit, fearlessness, and inimitable style set the tone for Sports...

Also available as an eBook and a hardcover.

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The Eternal Summer
Written by Curt Sampson
Foreword by Dan Jenkins

eBook | 256 pages | Villard | Sports & Recreation - Golf
978-0-307-56749-9 (0-307-56749-4)

July 22, 2009 | $28.00



Was there ever a year in golf like 1960?
        It was the year that the sport and its vivid personalities exploded on the consciousness of the nation, when the past, present, and future of the sport collided. Here was Arnold Palmer, the workingman's hero, "sweating, chain-smoking, shirt-tail flying"; Ben Hogan, the greatest...

Also available as a trade paperback.

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The Franchise Babe
Written by Dan Jenkins

Trade Paperback | 240 pages | Anchor | Fiction - Sports
978-0-7679-2528-0 (0-7679-2528-9)

June 9, 2009 | $17.50



Jack Brannon, a golf writer in his forties who has been bunkered more than once in the marriage game, covers the sport for a big-time magazine. Bored with the PGA, he decides to check out “the Lolitas,” on the LPGA Tour. Jack chooses as a magazine subject Ginger Clayton, a fiery...

Also available as an eBook and a hardcover.

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Jenkins at the Majors
Written by Dan Jenkins

Hardcover | 352 pages | Doubleday | Sports & Recreation - Golf
978-0-385-51913-7 (0-385-51913-3)

May 5, 2009 | $33.00



Six decades of classic stories on the Masters, U.S. Open, British Open, and PGA Championship by the legendary Dan Jenkins

Dan Jenkins has long been considered one of the premier sportswriters in America. Honored and imitated by generations of his peers, Jenkins’s wit, fearlessness, and inimitable style set the tone for Sports...



Also available as an eBook and a trade paperback.

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Jenkins at the Majors
Written by Dan Jenkins

eBook | 352 pages | Doubleday | Sports & Recreation - Golf
978-0-385-53059-0 (0-385-53059-5)

May 5, 2009 | $33.00



Six decades of classic stories on the Masters, U.S. Open, British Open, and PGA Championship by the legendary Dan Jenkins

Dan Jenkins has long been considered one of the premier sportswriters in America. Honored and imitated by generations of his peers, Jenkins’s wit, fearlessness, and inimitable style set the tone for Sports...

Also available as a hardcover and a trade paperback.

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The Franchise Babe
Written by Dan Jenkins

Hardcover | 240 pages | Doubleday | Fiction - Sports
978-0-385-51910-6 (0-385-51910-9)

June 3, 2008 | $27.95



The legendary Dan Jenkins returns with another bawdy, over-the-top novel of hijinks on the links – this time, the LPGA gets the treatment

Jack Brannon, a golf writer in his forties who has been bunkered more than once in the marriage game, covers the sport for the big-time magazine SM. Lately he’s...



Also available as an eBook and a trade paperback.

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The Franchise Babe
Written by Dan Jenkins

eBook | 256 pages | Anchor | Fiction - Sports
978-0-385-52698-2 (0-385-52698-9)

June 3, 2008 | $17.50



The legendary Dan Jenkins returns with another bawdy, over-the-top novel of hijinks on the links – this time, the LPGA gets the treatment

Jack Brannon, a golf writer in his forties who has been bunkered more than once in the marriage game, covers the sport for the big-time magazine SM. Lately he’s...

Also available as a hardcover and a trade paperback.

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Slim and None
Written by Dan Jenkins

eBook | 256 pages | Anchor | Fiction
978-0-307-41926-2 (0-307-41926-6)

December 18, 2007 | $21.00



The uproarious sequel to the national bestseller The Money-Whipped Steer-Job Three-Jack Give-Up Artist finds Bobby Joe Grooves at the most critical point in his career—and still hell-bent on challenging PGA decorum and common sense.

Introduced in Dan Jenkins’s previous uproarious novel of the pro golf tour, The Money-Whipped Steer-Job Three-Jack Give-Up Artist...

Also available as a trade paperback.

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Slim and None
Written by Dan Jenkins

Trade Paperback | 256 pages | Anchor | Fiction
978-0-7679-1433-8 (0-7679-1433-3)

May 2, 2006 | $21.00



Introduced in Dan Jenkins’s previous uproarious novel of the pro golf tour, The Money-Whipped Steer-Job Three-Jack Give-Up Artist, Bobby Joe Grooves is now forty-four and still without a win in a major championship. A student of golf lore, Bobby Joe is well aware that only a small group of stars have...

Also available as an eBook.

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The Money-Whipped Steer-Job Three-Jack Give-Up Artist
Written by Dan Jenkins

eBook | 272 pages | Anchor | Fiction
978-0-7679-1315-7 (0-7679-1315-9)

June 4, 2002 | $22.00



Dan Jenkins virtually invented the golf novel with the classic Dead Solid Perfect, his rollicking account of the life and times of PGA touring pro Kenny Lee Puckett. For thirty years his fans have waited for the follow-up; in The Money-Whipped Steer-Job Three-Jack Give-Up Artist, Jenkins has surpassed himself.

Bobby Joe...

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The Money-Whipped Steer-Job Three-Jack Give-Up Artist
Written by Dan Jenkins

Trade Paperback | 272 pages | Anchor | Fiction
978-0-7679-0587-9 (0-7679-0587-3)

May 7, 2002 | $28.00



The best golf writer on the planet returns with his funniest book ever.

Dan Jenkins virtually invented the golf novel with Dead Solid Perfect, his rollicking account of the life and times of touring pro Kenny Lee Puckett. After thirty years of waiting for the follow-up, Jenkins returns to the world of...

Also available as an eBook.

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The Eternal Summer
Written by Curt Sampson
Foreword by Dan Jenkins

Trade Paperback | 256 pages | Villard | Sports & Recreation - Golf
978-0-375-75368-8 (0-375-75368-0)

October 3, 2000 | $28.00



Was there ever a year in golf like 1960?
        It was the year that the sport and its vivid personalities exploded on the consciousness of the nation, when the past, present, and future of the sport collided. Here was Arnold Palmer, the workingman's hero, "sweating, chain-smoking, shirt-tail flying"; Ben Hogan, the greatest...

Also available as an eBook.

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Dead Solid Perfect
Written by Dan Jenkins

Trade Paperback | 256 pages | Anchor | Fiction
978-0-385-49885-2 (0-385-49885-3)

April 18, 2000 | $16.95



The legendary golf novel, rereleased in a special edition with a new foreword by the author.

Don Imus said it best: "Dan Jenkins is a comic genius." And nowhere is that genius more evident than in Dead Solid Perfect, his uproarious 1974 novel about life on the PGA Tour. To some...


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Fairways and Greens
Written by Dan Jenkins

Trade Paperback | 272 pages | Anchor | Sports & Recreation - Golf
978-0-385-47426-9 (0-385-47426-1)

May 1, 1995 | $21.95



"Tell me about plumbing, fine. Tell me about  carpentry, terrace gardening, the timer on VCRs. Go  ahead and explain cellophane. Tell me about all of  these things, but don't try to tell me about golf,  okay? Golf I know."--Dan  Jenkins

After four decades of covering golf-not to  mention "playing scratch from the blues and  gambling for my own money...


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Bubba Talks
Written by Dan Jenkins

Trade Paperback | 164 pages | Anchor | Humor - Essays
978-0-385-47079-7 (0-385-47079-7)

September 1, 1993 | $22.00