Jim Thorpe, Golf Digest, 2006
Shit happens. Sadly, sometimes, to decent people.Such, it seems, is the case with three-time PGA Tour winner and frequent Champions Tour victor, Jim Thorpe.
The hard-scrabble golfer with the trademark Panama hat is going on forced sabbatical from golf because he's been sentenced to a year in prison for tax evasion.
Thorpe, who was raised dirt poor and suffered all the indignations heaped upon black golfers in the era that preceded Tiger Woods' reign, was never known to take the easy way out of anything.
But I happened to uncover a long-lost Golf Digest article about him that may offer tell-tale clues to Thorpe's undoing. In it, Thorpe describes how an act of kindness he committed while down to his precious last dollars led him into close connection with casino gambline operators. And he willfully divulges his fondness for betting on horse races, dice games, boxing matches, and the like.
Responding to the news, a chief blogger for the Golf Channel takes a rather pitiless view of Thorpe's plight.
But given Thorpe's back-story, and the way all John Daly's transgressions haven't kept him from pro golf's embrace, here's hoping that Gentleman Jim eventually gets to bask again on a sunny fairway on his way to victory.
Photo: Golf Digest
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Geo
A cop once shared with me what they call the "3 Block Rule" which basically states that no one operating a motor vehicle can go more than 3 blocks without committing some type of traffic violation. If they really want to get 'ya, they will. Tax evasion, mail fraud and wire fraud, among others, fall under that category of suspicious, veiled and dubious charges that can land you, so very unsuspectingly, in the joint. Jim will take it like a man and emerge stronger than ever. You can bet on that.
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