Golf writer Dan Jenkins showed how much he admires Tiger Woods in a jokes-at-Tiger's-expense satirical column he wrote about an imaginary interview in December.
The Golf Coaches Association on Monday showed how much they appreciated Jenkins' work. The difference is that the GCAA wasn't kidding.
The website geoffshackelford.com reported on the GCAA Writing Contest Awards, and Jenkins won an award in the Non-Daily Columns category for his piece, "My fake interview with Tiger."
In it, Jenkins poked fun at Tiger, some of the jokes more mean-spirited than others, but the majority of it casting Woods in a bad light.
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According to CBSSports.com, the tension between the two began when Woods once declined an interview with Jenkins, whom CBSSports.com called the "Tiger Woods of golf writing."
In the Jenkins piece, he says Woods likes to fire people, can't remember who friend Mark O'Meara is and says what he learned from his infidelity scandal was "don't get caught," among several other things.
Woods then wrote a response to Jenkins on theplayerstribune.com :
"Did you read Dan Jenkins' interview with me in the latest Golf Digest?" he wrote. "I hope not. Because it wasn't me. It was some jerk he created to pretend he was talking to me. That's right, Jenkins faked an interview, which fails as parody, and is really more like a grudge-fueled piece of character assassination.
"Journalistically and ethically, can you sink any lower?"
Curiously, Woods reprints some of Jenkins' article in his rebuttal before going after the writer again.
"Whether it's misreported information or opinions I think are way off base, I let plenty of things slide," he said. "But this time I can't do that. The sheer nastiness of this attack, the photos and how it put false words in my mouth just had to be confronted."
CBSSports.com golf writer Kyle Porter said that he didn't think Jenkins' work was worthy of an award, but that Tiger's rebuttal wasn't exactly Pulitzer-Prize material either.
There were no reports on trying to get Tiger's comments on the award.
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