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...What I?m going to do instead is relate the strange tale of Brad Faxon, a fellow who happens to agree with my way of thinking and who, in 2000, acted upon that philosophy-in spades. The experience saw him win big for losing, profit mightily by suffering the humbling experience of having not qualified for an event. The stuff and substance behind this apparent paradox says something about golf today, and speaks volumes about...
...little backstory: Faxon was on the ropes late in the 1999 season, vis-a- vis earnings and future tournament exemptions, as a divorce and then a broken wrist had taken a toll on his results. Then, all of a sudden, he did a terrific thing: He won the B.C. Open, which boosted him solidly into the middle echelon of money winners and won him invitations that would allow him to sleep peacefully for another 12 months at least. Good...
...Faxon feels that many pros, particularly American pros, don?t care enough about the game. They take much from golf-much in money, much in fame-but give little back. They have scant sense of tradition. If they think they haven?t got a good chance of winning a particular tournament, or if the event is the least bit inconvenient to get to, then they give it a miss, even if it?s a competition of some importance. "I do feel too many Americans skip the British," Faxon says. "I?ve been saying that for some time...
...With this as his philosophy, Faxon called the folks at the B.C. Open and told them he was going to go to Britain to try and qualify. His conversations with the folks in Endicott were very polite. Then Faxon told the PGA Tour of his plans: That he hoped to make the draw at the millennial Open at St. Andrews, but that if he failed he would dash back to the States and defend his title in the American tournament. "They said I couldn?t do it, that it was fine-able behavior, that I had to commit...
Well, certainly not if chokers like Brad Faxon and Davis Love III compete for American team again...