Dan Jenkins chosen for Golf Hall of Fame
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Sixty years and 210 major championships worth of covering golf and now sports writer Dan Jenkins is joining the greats he loved to write about on May 7 next year when he is inducted into the Golf Hall of Fame.
Jenkins, 82, will be only the sixth member of the media in the hall and the first to not be inducted posthumously.
``Being from Fort Worth, I would follow Ben Hogan and Byron Nelson anywhere,'' Jenkins said Wednesday on a conference call to announce that he was selected through the Lifetime Achievement category. ``Since they're in there, I'm happy to be the third guy from Fort Worth so included.
``I'm delighted to be in such good company with the people who are already in there, especially the players.''
``I should note that over the years, the World Golf Hall of Fame has been very sparse in their recognition of people from Dan's craft, only recognizing the very, very best,'' PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem said.
Jenkins already is in the Texas Golf Hall of Fame and the National Sportscasters and Sports Writers Hall of Fame.
He has been longed with the PGA Lifetime Achievement Award in Journalism, and the Memorial Journalism Award.
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