Here’s another “tradition unlike any other”: Dan Jenkins at the Masters.

Jenkins will be covering his 64th Masters, dating back to Ben Hogan’s hey day. If Moses swung a club, Jenkins probably saw it.

Thanks to Twitter, we don’t have to wait to read what’s on Jenkins’ mind. We get his unique, shall we say, observations instantaneously via his Twitter feed; with the assistance of Golf Digest executive editor Mike O’Malley.

Here are some early tweets, as Jenkins is just loosening up.

Also highly recommended for Jenkins fans is his new book, His Ownself: A Semi-Memoir.

Jenkins details his own incredible life as only he can. At 84, he delivers one-liners that will have you laughing out loud.

The opening paragraph in the book gets to the essence of Jenkins.

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It seems to me that in my busiest years of writing for a living, I spent most of my free times in convivial bars. I didn’t seek out the bars so much for the whiskey as I did for the atmosphere. A decent bar was a place where I could sip a cocktail, smoke a cigarette, have engrossing conversations with friends, and if there was music at all it was a jukebox with Sinatra and Judy and others on it with a regard for melody–in contrast to today’s eruptions of Krakatoa. I could sit in comfort and eventually reach for a cheese stick or a deviled egg. Dinner at last.

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In a review for Golf World, Bill Fields writes:

If there is a recurring theme in His Ownself, it is that the man behind the humor (“The necessity of injuring a person with a comment or a joke in the pursuit of truth,” is a Jenkins sportswriting tenet) was having the last laugh all along. Just as Arnold Palmer, someone else he wrote a lot about, has never tired of being Arnold Palmer, Dan Jenkins has never tired of being Dan Jenkins.

That explains why he’s at 220 major championships and counting, an astounding attendance record in his lodge that, like Byron Nelson’s 11 consecutive victories in 1945, will never be broken.