Dan Jenkins Quotes

If you're going to be a player people will remember, you have to win the Open at St. Andrews.

At the British Open, I had my opportunities, but the ball just didn't want to go in the hole on the back nine.

I can say I won a Senior British Open at Turnberry. I think that's the best thing about it, the whole week, was playing this course. It's a challenging, very tough course, under extreme weather. But you know, it's nice to win any event.

The very first tournament I watched is the U.S. Open when I was 13. And that was the year Juli Inkster won.

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

I always got very excited about the Masters as a kid. I could hardly wait until the Wednesday when you'd get the BBC's preview. And I'd then be glued to the screen until Sunday night.

There have been so many majors that got away, starting at Riviera in '95, taking a three-shot lead into the final round of the PGA and not winning.

As a kid, I remember John Daly bombing it around St. Andrews in 1995 to win the British Open, and people say we are similar in a lot of ways.

I probably remember the 1954 Masters more vividly than any of the others.

The Masters is going to be an awesome challenge.

I gather most people don't remember that when the U.S. Open first went to Pebble Beach in 1972, a big deal was made of the Open going to a public course for the first time.

Even when I finished third at the U.S. Open a few weeks back, I didn't putt very well, nor in the last round of last year's Masters when Mickelson won, nor last year's Open at Turnberry, where I came second.

Since 1934 every accomplished player in golf has come to the Augusta National looking for an introduction into history.

I'd happily cover the British Open every year until St. Andrews slides into the sea or Scotland runs out of beer, whichever happens first.

I've always felt like I was going to win a British Open at St. Andrews. That place is suited for me.

If there is only one event you could work the rest of your life, it would be Augusta.

To me, the [British] Open is the tournament I would come to if I had to leave a month before and swim over.

When the British Open is in Scotland, there's something special about it. And when it's at St. Andrews, it's even greater.

The fact that Slammin' Sammy couldn't win the Open made it all the more valuable for the players that did win. Gave it a special quality. I'd say a part of the sheen on that trophy comes from my sweat.

As for 1994 [ U.S. Open], I didn't do very well, but it was a great occasion for me even though I was not playing the way I had hoped. And it was obviously a very emotional day that last day, but it was a great memory for me and I have had a lot of great memories at Oakmont over the years.

1960, I was 20 years old, and I was leading the U.S. Open. Now, I wasn't leading by several strokes, but I was leading the U.S. Open and playing with Ben Hogan, had a very good chance to win, nine holes to go, I was leading. I was still leading with six holes to play.

I came back and in '63, I was at the British Open, trying to win my first British Open. And I had what I thought was a two-shot lead with two holes to play at Lytham. I remember it like it was yesterday. Anybody with a proper brain would have played the ball short of the hole. I didn't have a proper brain at the time. But you have to make that mistake to learn it.

Any golfer worth his salt has to cross the sea and try to win the British Open.

The U.S. Open is not John Daly's style of golf.

The Masters is poetry to me.