It’s U.S. Open week at Congressional Country Club in Bethesda, Maryland, so it’s time for Geoff Shackelford to renew the latest segment of his periodic interviews with Clear Thinkers favorite Dan Jenkins, who is covering his 207th (by my count) major golf championship. Any interview of Jenkins is good fun, but he particularly seems to rise to the occasion around major championships. For example:

Q: It’s Saturday of this year’s U.S. Open and you have a choice between watching the third round at Congressional or Obama v. Boehner whapping it around at Andrews Air Force Base. What do you choose?

“I wouldn’t watch politicians do anything if it was happening in my retina.”

Also, Jenkins’ twitter feed during the week of any major golf tournament is highly entertaining. Here is his Twitter review of Adam Schupak’s new book on former PGA Tour Commissioner, Deane Beman:

“New book out on Deane Beman. My review in one sentence: Deane never lost a conversation.”

Meanwhile, check out this slick Golf.com map and overview of the Congressional golf course (Bradley Klein chimes in with a good background piece on the course here). The U.S. Open’s site also provides interesting flyovers of each hole along with a narrated description.

Game on!