Dan Jenkins

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1. Dan Jenkins

   Author of Dead Solid Perfect, Rude Behavior, Fairways and Greens

2. Larry McMurtry

   Author of Lonesome Dove, Boone's Lick, Duane's Depressed

3. Joseph Wambaugh

   Author of The Blooding, The New Centurions, Lines and Shadows

4. John D. MacDonald

   Author of Cinnamon Skin, Dress Her in Indigo, A Tan and Sandy Silence

5. Elmore Leonard

   Author of Be Cool, Freaky Deaky, Cuba Libre

6. Louis L'Amour

   Author of Ride the Dark Trail, Chancy, Brionne

7. John Feinstein

   Author of Open: Inside the Ropes at Bethpage Black, A Civil War: Army Vs. Navy a Year Inside College Football's Purest Rivalry, The Best American Sports Writing 1996

8. Peter Gent

   Author of North Dallas Forty, The Franchise, North Dallas After 40

9. George Plimpton

   Author of Paper Lion, The Bogey Man: A Month on the PGA Tour, The Best American Sports Writing 1997

10. Rick Reilly

    Author of Who's Your Caddy?: Looping for the Great, Near Great, and Reprobates of Golf, Missing Links, Shanks for Nothing: A Novel

11. Gregory Mcdonald

    Author of Fletch, Fletch's Moxie, Flynn

12. Herbert Warren Wind

    Author of Following Through, The Story of American Golf, The Complete Golfer

13. Bernard Darwin

    Author of Golf Between Two Wars (Classics of Golf), Bernard Darwin On Golf, Golf Courses of the British Isles

14. Arnold Palmer

    Author of A Golfer's Life, My Game and Yours, Playing by the Rules: All the Rules of the Game, Complete with Memorable Rulings From Golf's Rich History

15. David Halberstam

    Author of Summer of '49, The Best American Sports Writing of the Century, The Best American Sports Writing 1991

16. Lawrence Sanders

    Author of The Third Deadly Sin, McNally's Secret, McNally's Luck

17. Thomas Boswell

    Author of The Best American Sports Writing 1994, Strokes of Genius (Penguin Sports Library)

18. Harvey Penick

    Author of Harvey Penick's Little Red Book: Lessons and Teachings From a Lifetime in Golf, And if You Play Golf, You're My Friend: Further Reflections of a Grown Caddie, The Game for a Lifetime: More Lessons and Teachings

19. Robert B. Parker

    Author of Looking for Rachel Wallace, Pale Kings and Princes, Double Play

20. Troon Mcallister

    Author of The Green, The Foursome: A Novel, Barranca: An Eddie Caminetti Novel