Product Description
The legendary Dan Jenkins returns with another bawdy, over-the-top novel of hijinks on the links – this time, the LPGA gets the treatment
Jack Brannon, a golf writer in his forties who has been bunkered more than once in the marriage game, covers the sport for the big-time magazine SM. Lately he’s been bored out of his mind writing about the PGA Tour, which he says has become “Tiger and a bunch of slugs playing pushover courses.” So he decides to check out what he calls “the Lolitas,” a new breed of young chicks on the LPGA Tour. Jack chooses as a magazine subject Ginger Clayton, a fiery eighteen-year old with flowing blond locks, legs up to here, and a personality that combines mischief with confidence. With her killer looks and killer game, Ginger looks very much like the kind of star who can take the LPGA to the next level of excitement and acceptance. She is, indeed, The Franchise Babe, and everyone seems to want a part of her.
Jack’s interest in Ginger’s career might have something to do with her mother, Thurlene Clayton, a knockout herself who looks plenty okay in a jacked-up mini-to use Jack’s description of her outfit. As Ginger shows her grit on the ladies’ tour, the greedy hordes looking to benefit from the kid’s talent and personality aren’t the ones who worry Thurlene-and Jack-the most. Someone is trying to knock Ginger out of the competition-permanently.
Jenkins captures the growing buzz around the Franchise Babe and all the insane and hilarious things that happen when the sports world anoints someone new to the throne of super-stardom. Along the way, Jenkins issues bawdy, dead-on takedowns of selfish sports moms, gasbag corporate sponsors, adventurous promoters, sleazy sports agents, point-missing magazine editors, and all the other modern annoyances that make life hard for a guy who, as they say in Texas, is just tryin' to get by without gettin' hurt.
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The Downhill Lie: A Hacker's Return to a Ruinous Sport
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Rules of Deception
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Slim and None
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Bubba Talks: Of Life, Love, Sex, Whiskey, Politics, Foreigners, Teenagers, Movies, Food, Football, and Other Matters That Occasiona
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The Match: The Day the Game of Golf Changed Forever
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 Regaining His Form
Dan Jenkins is one of my all-time favorite sports authors. "The Franchise Babe" is very well done, albeit missing some of the biting descriptions that have highlighted characters from his earlier works. I think I have read them all, and my favorite remains (unexplicably) "Baja Oklahoma", followed by "Dead Solid Perfect". I hope he returns to Fort Worth and Herb's Cafe in future endeavors -- the setting just seemed to provide a rich environment for character development. That said, his latest offering is extremely readable, offering an insight into the world of the LPGA and giving us, at the same time, further examples of his unequalled wit. Make sure you pass this one off to your golfing buddies -- I sure will.
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 For those 60 or older... ( fudgelady )
There is so much reflecting on the past, that anyone under 60 or even 50 is gonna be lost. The repartee ain't funny, Magee. The plotting doesn't exist. His business about a "point misser" doesn't make sense. Save your money.
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 Fun,Truth,Sex&Laughter on the LPGAtour...Pure Jenkins Joy
One more very funny,suitably sexist,terrifically politically incorrect, bit of DeadSolidPerfection...on the LPGA tour. Cynical Sportswriter finds enlightenment via TeenGolfGoddess & her mom, with the richly portrayed wacked characters,real tour insight,golf historiography,& drop your putter one-liners we expect from Dan Jenkins. Not the outragously rich bawdy banquet of earlier works,but continuing proof that nobody can spin a hilarious,insightful,satisfying sports yarn better. BBC
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Jenkins in Funny Form Again ( salowitz )
When one reads a book by Dan Jenkins, one does not look for any comparison to Dostoyevsky or Cervantes - one looks for sheer entertainment and hilarity.
This book didn't disappoint me - Jenkins' Jack Brannon is a solid character with a notebook full of funny lines to use in any situation and his coverage of the women's pro golf tour gives him a chance to haul them all out. Sports action, a mild love story, some protest marchers, some outrageous rich people... what more could you ask for in a Jenkins skewering?
Is this book politically incorrect? Come on, it's Dan Jenkins! Might some readers be offended by it? Only if they have zero sense of humor.
Simply, I laughed aloud a few times and continue to think Jenkins is a comic (and golf writing) treasure. I found it far better than some of his recent novels, but this pales in comparison to his wonderful "Baja Oklahoma" and terrific non-fiction "Dogged Victims of Inexorable Fate."
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 Easy and Enjoyable Read
This is the third Dan Jenkins novel I have read. It wasn't quite as funny as Dead Solid Perfect and didn't have as much golf action as Slim and None. Still, it was easy to read and I enjoyed it. As with all Jenkins' books, the language is colorful.
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