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This week the 130th British Open will be staged from Thursday through Sunday, as the great event returns to the well-bunkered links of Royal Lytham & St. Annes. Some American pros who have qualified for the tournament will give it a miss, preferring to rest at home and not spend travel money on a mere chance at history. Maybe, if so inspired, they?ll take a shot at the pot in the PGA Tour event in Endicott, N.Y. The B.C. Open suffers the annual misfortune of being held simultaneous with the British Open, which means it will never have Tiger...
...like to say, first, that I think this is poor thinking: If you can play the British Open you should. But I?m not going to lay out all my arguments for that thinking, because the pros could validly say: Who?s he to criticize us? What?s he ever done...
...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...
...Some tax pros have been angling for ways to reset the meter without moving. Philip Holthouse, a partner at the Los Angeles tax firm Holthouse Carlin & Van Trigt, says you can do that by setting up a trust and selling the house to your adult children. Future gains will accrue to family members tax free, and it may help in estate planning too. He warns, though, that children without income cannot take advantage of the mortgage deduction, which may be worth more than any capital-gains tax saving. Another option is to sell your house and lease it back with...
...Many pros wouldn't go near Erik's team, fearing they might have to haul the blind guy down. "Everyone was saying Erik was gonna have an epic," says Charley Mace, a member of the film crew. (Epic is Everest slang for disaster.) Another climber planned to stay close, boasting that he would "get the first picture of the dead blind...