This is a big day for the fraternity. Dan Jenkins will be inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame tonight.

Don’t be surprised if Jenkins’ first line is, “What the (bleep) took you so long?”

Indeed, it is baffling why the Hall waited until Jenkins was 82 to give him this honor. He joins Bernard Darwin and Herbert Warren Wind as the only other golf writers in the Hall. At this point, this is a three-person Mt. Rushmore. Nobody else measures up.

Jenkins’ novel Semi-Tough was an instant classic, and his unique and often hysterical take on golf in Sports Illustrated and then Golf Digest left unless laughing, unless you were one of his targets.

Jerry Tarde writes in Golf Digest:

Dan taught us not to take the big guys so seriously. After Greg Norman’s  collapse at Augusta in 1996, when Norman said if he’d taken the time to study  medicine, he could have been a brain surgeon: “Maybe so,” wrote Jenkins, “but he  wouldn’t operate on this cowboy–not on Sundays, anyhow.”

Take a look at this interview with Jenkins posted on Golf Digest’s site. You’ll be glad you did.