Dan Jenkins Recalls Titanic Texas Golf Match
Essay is part of a new collection in bookstores today.
Half the essays in Dan Jenkins’ new book Unplayable Lies, out today, are new. The rest are updated versions of articles originally published in Golf Digest.
The excerpt being used to promote the book is titled “How I Met the Ultimate Hustler.” It’s all about Thomas “Titanic” Thompson, a Texas golf legend who wound his way to Hollywood and beyond.
Jenkins explains how Thompson got the nickname, details an in-person encounter with the hustler at age 77, and revisits the most famous Titanic tale of them all:
The match between Titanic and Byron Nelson wasn’t covered by the press and was never written about, but it became a part of Fort Worth golf history.
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