From US Open despair to British Open delight, Phil Mickelson has gone through the entire gamut of emotions in the space of five short weeks. …read more
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Gloom to glory a short step for Mickelson
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Mickelson's Magical Muirfield Moment Will Extend Duration Of His Marketing Appeal
Prior to Sunday’s final round at The Open Championship at Muirfield, Phil Mickelson was one of the wealthiest product endorsers in the world. …read more
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"The Best Round Of My Career" Is Reserved For Phil Mickelson – The Best At The British Open
Phil Mickelson at 2007 Barclays Singapore Open (Photo credit: Wikipedia)The golf channel calls itself the fastest growing network on Television. I hope they pay royalties to Phil Mickelson because he gives them a poster child for the sport – a nice scandal-free family man who dedicates himself to improving not only his game but the club technology of the game (Callaway), who gives America inspiration from coming back from adversity of losing (US Open implosion – again) to being better than everyone in the world at the British Open. He inspires too those who believe in themselves despite being second too many times. He has continued to take risks in his profession and did it his way. “I didn’t want to be influenced by other people’s shots”. Many of us can draw hope from that. He too is a student of the game, as is every champion no matter the sport. He said there are “three different options on every shot depending on the wind”, and many other factors that swirl in his head of which we cannot yet comprehend. Whatever we do for a living, we can only hope to continue to grow better at it, as has Mr. Phil. …read more
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British Open LIVE UPDATES: Second Round At Muirfield
By The Huffington Post News Editors
Will Muirfield be set up in a more inviting fashion on Friday to appease those that were upset over Thursday’s tough set-up at the Open Championship?
Can Tiger Woods make an early move, applying pressure to both Phil Mickelson and overnight leader Zach Johnson? Woods will tee off in the morning wave on Friday, while Mickelson and Johnson will go out in the afternoon.
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With Its Best Golfers Playing In The British Open, The PGA Tour Decides To Play Chicken
This week the attention of the golfing world will be on Scotland’s Muirfield golf course, host of this year’s British Open. Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson, Rory McIlroy, Adam Scott and nearly all of the rest of the very best golfers in the world will be there. …read more
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Matsuyama set for Open debut
Rising Japanese star Hideki Matsuyama has sought out the advice of veteran compatriot Shigeki Maruyama to help him prepare for his British Open debut at Muirfield this week.
The 21-year-old, who was Asian amateur champion in 2011 and 2012, made his professional debut only in April when he started his fourth year at a Japanese university.
But he has since won twice and finished runner-up twice in eight domestic tournaments to lead the Japan Tour’s money list at 99 million yen ($980,000), more than double the total of the second-placed player.
Matsuyama also finished tied for 10th in his first US Open last month. He is currently ranked 46th in the world and has also qualified for the year’s final major, the August 5-11 PGA Championships in Rochester, New York.
But playing on links courses like Muirfield is something that is new to him and Maruyama, who has played in six Opens, had valuable insight to hand on to him.
“I did just meet with Shigeki Maruyama, who finished fifth here in 2002. And he gave me a lot of advice not only on links courses but here on Muirfield,” Matsuyama said after playing a third practice round at the course.
“Shigeki told me that the wind is usually strong here at Muirfield and I need to hit the ball low. And we talked a lot about how to hit the low shots and he helped me a lot there.”
Matsuyama’s progress up the world rankings and the potential he has shown at home has drawn comparisons with fellow 21-year-old Ryo Ishikawa but hopes are high that he will be able to be more competitive when playing abroad.
Ishikawa turned professional amid much fanfare in 2008 and he quickly dominated the Japan Golf Tour.
But to date his forays abroad have been marked mainly by failure, missing the cut in nine of the 18 majors he has played in. His best finish to date was a tie for 20th at the 2011 Masters.
Matsuyama though was quick to play down any comparisons between the two young hopes.
“I’ve only been a pro for really just a couple of months. And as far as shouldering or taking over for Ishikawa, I haven’t even thought of that,” he said.
“All I’m doing is trying to play the best golf that I can, gain the experience that I need and just go out and play golf.”
Matsuyama has been handed a lively start to his Open career being paired with big guns Phil Mickelson and Rory McIlroy with a 9:44 am (0844 GMT) start.
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Woods gets McDowell and Oosthuizen in Open draw
Tournament favourite Tiger Woods will join Ulsterman Graeme McDowell and South African Louis Oosthuizen for Thursday’s first round of the British Open.
The 37-year-old American, who will be playing competitively for the first time in a month after spraining his left elbow during the US Open, is seeking a 15th major title, over five years after winning his last at the 2008 US Open.
In McDowell he will have the 2010 US Open champion, who won his third title of the year at the French Open on July 7.
Oosthuizen won the British Open at St Andrews in 2010, with Woods having won the title there in 2005 and 2000.
They will have a mid-afternoon start on Thursday at 2:45 pm (1545 GMT) and a 9:44 am (1044 GMT) start on Friday.
Defending champion Ernie Els will go out with Justin Rose, who won the US Open last month and American Brandt Snedeker, seen as one of the finest putters in the game but who has yet to win a major.
Rory McIlroy, winless this year after making an equipment change that has seen his form slump, is paired with Phil Mickelson, who is back up to fifth in the world after winning the Scottish Open on Sunday and rising Japanese star Hideki Matsuyama.
Other top groupings see Lee Westwood, Sergio Garcia and Charl Schwartzel brought together as well as Masters champion Adam Scott, Matt Kuchar and Luke Donald.
First out on Thursday at 6:32 am (0732) will be Australian veteran Peter Senior, local lad Lloyd Saltman and Oliver Fisher of England.
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Phil Mickelson Talks Masters Nerves, Says Prep Routine Before Augusta Thrown Off
By The Huffington Post News Editors
AUGUSTA, Ga. — One of the last golfers you’d expect to feel anxious heading into the Masters is three-time champion Phil Mickelson.
Yet, the creature of habit is slightly out of sorts after a change to his usual routine at the year’s first major, and it’s left Lefty a bit apprehensive about his first tee shot Thursday when the Masters starts.
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Elementary School Teachers to Attend Mickelson ExxonMobil Teachers Academy
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Elementary School Teachers to Attend Mickelson ExxonMobil Teachers Academy
- Two hundred teachers from 50 states to upgrade math and science teaching skills
- ExxonMobil partnered with PGA golfer Phil Mickelson to improve math and science education
- Academy has trained nearly 3,6000 teachers impacting more than 230,000 students
IRVING, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Two hundred elementary school teachers from across the United States have been selected to attend the 2013 Mickelson ExxonMobil Teachers Academy, a professional development program designed to enhance math and science teaching skills. Participants learn how to bring science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) to life in the classroom, to inspire students to study and pursue careers in the critical fields.
“Today’s teachers and students must learn how to ‘speak science’ to ensure we remain competitive as a nation,” said PGA golfer Phil Mickelson. “The Mickelson ExxonMobil Teachers Academy encourages teachers to use real-world examples and in-class experiments to build excitement about STEM learning, educating the next generation of American innovators.”
The successful educators teach third through fifth grade and were chosen from more than 1,500 applications submitted at www.sendmyteacher.com. Selection was based on teacher qualifications, dedication to inspiring students at an early age and overall commitment to enhancing the teaching profession. A panel of educators from the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics and the National Science Teachers Association selected participants to attend the national academy, held July 22-26, 2013, at Liberty Science Center in Jersey City, New Jersey.
The academy is an intensive, one-week, all-expenses-paid program developed in 2005 when ExxonMobil partnered with Mickelson and his wife, Amy. Launched with support from the National Science Teachers Association and Math Solutions, the initiative has trained 3,600 teachers benefiting more than 230,000 students nationwide. In addition to the 200 teachers attending this year’s national academy in New Jersey, 400 more teachers will attend regional academies in Louisiana and Texas.
“The academy reaffirmed my belief that the classroom can and should be one of the most exciting places a child visits,” said Krissy Venosdale, a teacher from St. Louis who attended in 2012. “Educators can reinvigorate their classrooms by sharing real-world applications of science and technology – like our country’s space program.”
Currently, U.S. students rank 17th and 25th globally in math and science, respectively, according to results from the 2009 Programme for …read more
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Wyoming Beats The On-line Companies On Room Tax
By Peter J Reilly, Contributor
When you hear about people like golfer Phil Mickelson moving from high tax states like California, the most likely destinations are Texas and Florida. You don’t hear Wyoming mentioned very often. Back in the pre-internet days of yore, we used to write to every state revenue department to get copies of their return packages, that we could then photo-copy and have on hand just in case. We got a nice letter from Wyoming explaining that they did not have any forms for us because there were neither personal nor corporate income taxes in Wyoming. The letter went on to tell us about the great hunting and fishing and natural beauty – nothing like a little cheap advertsing. I have never hunted and don’t fish and only drove through Wyoming once. I found the scenery quite impressive. No place in the world is more beautiful than New England, though. Just saying. …read more
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Tiger Woods’ Majors 2013: Torrey Pines, Doral Wins Ramp Up Expectations Ahead Of Masters
By The Huffington Post News Editors
DORAL, Fla. (AP) — There is a fascination with numbers when it comes to Tiger Woods, a product of him winning so much over so many years.
He now has 76 wins on the PGA Tour, six short of the record 82 by Sam Snead, and one more than Phil Mickelson and Vijay Singh combined. His two-shot victory at Doral was his 17th in the World Golf Championships. No one else has won more than three. The Cadillac Championship was the 22nd time he has taken at least a three-shot lead into the final round on tour, and he has won them all.
But there is only one number that matters.
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Florida isn't Futile for Phil Mickelson
When I saw the Wall Street Journal?s headline that ?Florida Means Futility for Phil Mickelson,? I naturally thought the article was about taxes. After all, Mickelson has become a kind of poster-child for picking state residency with an eye on the tax law. That?s curious, considering that Mickelson still calls high-tax-California his home. …read more
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Killing Golden Goose, California Taxes Capital Gains as Ordinary Income
By Robert W. Wood, Contributor
Living in California has many perks, but tax rates are not among them. As the Phil Mickelson brouhaha underscored, poor economics and rising tax rates can cause a perfect storm. Moving To Beat High State Taxes? Watch Out. Everyone gets upset, regardless of income levels. And while views differ, complaining about taxes may be part of the human condition. …read more
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Abolish The Income Tax
The federal income tax is a bad joke and it needs to be abolished. All over the nation, hard working American families are being absolutely crushed by oppressive levels of taxation, and our politicians are constantly coming up with new ways to extract money from all of us every single year. Meanwhile, many ultra-wealthy Americans and many of the most profitable corporations in the country pay little to nothing in taxes. In fact, as you will see below, there are dozens of very prominent corporations that make billions of dollars in profits and yet don’t pay a dime in taxes. Tax avoidance has become a multi-billion dollar industry in the United States. Those that have the resources to “play the game” use shell companies, offshore tax havens and the thousands of loopholes in our tax code to minimize their tax burdens as much as possible. Meanwhile, the rest of us get absolutely hammered. This is fundamentally unfair. The federal income tax system is irreversibly broken at this point, and it is time to abolish it. If you think that the federal income tax system can be “fixed”, then you probably have never studied it. Our tax code is nearly 4 million words long and it is absolutely riddled with thousands of loopholes that favor big corporations and the ultra-wealthy. We should come up with a better, fairer way to fund the government. The United States once prospered greatly without a federal income tax, and it could do so again.
Many people simply do not believe that it is possible for corporations inside the United States to make billions of dollars in profits each year and not pay a dime in income taxes.
Well, according to a report put out by Public Campaign, that is exactly what is happening. Posted below are numbers that come directly from their report. 30 large corporations are listed, and 29 of them had a tax burden for 2008 through 2010 that was less than zero even though they all made enormous profits. And all 30 of them spent more on lobbying than they did on taxes.
The numbers that you are about to see are for 2008, 2009 and 2010 combined. For “taxes paid”, please note that for 29 of the corporations a negative number is given. That means that the net tax liability for 2008 through 2010 was actually less than zero.
After seeing these numbers, is there anyone out there that is still willing to claim that our tax system is “fair”?…
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Mickelson's Law: the Higher the Taxes, the More Attractive the Move
By Robert W. Wood, Contributor
Despite Isaac Newton, when it comes to tax rates, every action may not have an equal and opposite reaction. Yet Newton was more right than wrong. Many things motivate behavior and taxes is only one of them, but if you raise tax rates high enough, something will give. Take Eduardo Saverin, Gerard Depardieu, Nicolas Sarkozy, Tina Turner, Tiger Woods, and Phil Mickelson, to name a few. …read more
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How Money Increasingly Runs From the Greedy Hands of the State
Having observed that Americans had fallen “in love with an attractive, great-speechmaking hustler/socialist,” legendary ad man Jerry Della Femina announced the withdrawal of his job-creating capital from society a little less than two years ago. More recently Phil Mickelson, one of the world’s best known and highest paid athletes, alluded to the possibility of “drastic changes” in his life in light of the nosebleed rates of taxation he’s now paying on both the federal and state levels. …read more
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Brent Musburger, Phil Mickelson And Me: Encounters With Political Correctness
By Mark Hendrickson, Contributor What do television sports announcer Brent Musburger, world-class golfer Phil Mickelson, and yours truly have in common? We’ve all had pointed encounters with political correctness—the efforts by zealots on the left to discomfit and intimidate, if not censor and silence, those who utter ideas that depart from their ideological orthodoxy.
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Why Liberals Think Phil Mickelson Doesn’t Really Deserve His Money
In Liberal theology, telling the truth is a sin; acknowledging that success comes from hard work and not “winning life’s lottery” is a bigger sin. But being wealthy, white, and committing these sins makes them still bigger and clearly unforgivable.
When professional golfer Phil Mickelson complained about his taxes being too high, he committed the Liberal sin of telling the truth. Their selectively applied “speaking truth to power” slogan aside, Liberals become furious at people who tell the emperor he is naked. When Mickelson said he was tired of paying an aggregate tax of 63% after all of the bites taken from his check, that was a sin. But it got worse: he added that since California’s taxes are so high, he was thinking about leaving “The Golden State.”
Publicly acknowledging that he was even thinking about escaping the clutches of a Liberal “Taxula” state sent the Liberals into a foaming-at-the-mouth rage. They mocked Mickelson as an ungrateful greedy comrade.
What did he have to be grateful for?
Liberals apparently think Mickelson is greedy because they KNOW he doesn’t deserve what he is paid. Even Liberal sports writers (the self -appointed guardians of Liberal orthodoxy) who might be expected to know better act as if Mickelson was once struck on the head by a sliced ball, knocked out, and awoke with a “Roy Hobbs-like” ability to play golf. They don’t want to accept that he worked for the superior skills he has.
To these people, it is intolerable that a white man like “Comrade” Mickelson should complain about the privilege of paying Mother State a mere 63% of what he collects for having been in the right place at the right time and winning “life’s golf lottery.”
Nevertheless, all of Mickelson’s Liberal sins could be overlooked if only he wasn’t white. Being white makes being forgiven impossible. Tiger Woods, an equally skilled multi-racial professional golfer, freely confesses his “sin” of fleeing California’s taxes; but there is hardly a word about his transgression from the Liberals. In Liberal orthodoxy, a white man even talking about running away from high taxes cannot be forgiven; but a black man actually doing it is quietly overlooked.
In the Liberal’s fantasy world, all comrades are equal; except some comrades are more equal than others. Where whites have to grovel for forgiveness of their Liberal sins, being black wipes your slate clean even if you’ve done exactly the same thing.
And make no mistake; I applaud Woods for making such a smart decision. He has saved an estimated $100 million dollars by doing so.
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Phil Mickelson: Is Moving From California a Mistake? Actually, He Should Have Moved Sooner
By Matthew Campione, Contributor I am okay with Phil Mickelson moving from California to another state. We are not talking about a citizen or resident becoming an expatriate and moving to Russia, Singapore or some other country. While California is a good microcosm of US tax and spending problems, we are talking about a person moving to another state. I do not have a problem with this because after all we are the UNITED STATES. States with high taxes, debt and budget problems should be wary that residents may want to leave them as well.
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Mickelson Chokes
Phil Mickelson choked on a gimme putt this week, but it wasn’t on a golf course.
According to the AP’s golf writer, America’s most popular golfer “put his popularity on the line with polarizing comments about how much he has to pay in state and federal taxes.”
“Polarizing comments”?
Good grief.
Now it’s “polarizing” for an American to hint that because of the higher federal and state income tax rates on millionaires leveled by Sacramento and Washington, he might have to migrate to Florida or Texas?
Though he had every right to, Mickelson didn’t knock Obama or gripe like a Tea Partier about the federal, state, and local tax bite on his estimated $45 million in annual earnings — about 62 percent.
Mickelson spoke the truth. Most pro golfers already live in Florida, and for good reason. It’s not because of the warm weather; it’s because there’s no state income tax.
Tiger Woods, who bravely stuck up for Mickelson, has admitted without shame that he moved to Orlando years ago to escape California’s income tax, which is now set at 13 percent on California’s 35,000 remaining millionaires.
Ditto for Rush Limbaugh, who became a Floridian because of New York’s confiscatory state and local taxes.
It’s outrageous that any American — Mickelson, Woods, Mitt Romney, or super-liberals like Babs Streisand or Bobby Redford — is forced to fork over 60 percent of their honest earnings to government.
But it isn’t just wealthy pro golfers who are being driven out of California by high taxes.
Before Jan. 1, an older surgeon I know closed his practice, laid off his four employees, sold his house, and moved to Nevada.
He was still a practicing surgeon, not because he needed the money but because he loved being a surgeon.
But the higher income tax rates now in effect under Proposition 30 for those earning more than $250,000 were too much for him, and so the Broken State of California lost a good surgeon and four other jobs.
It’s a shame Mickelson turned out to be such a wuss. Wouldn’t it have been great if he had stood tall and become a tax-protesting hero — the Gerard Depardieu of America?
Depardieu, the wealthy and popular French actor, shocked the liberal intelligentsia of Europe with his defiant, politically incorrect, and very public stand against France’s confiscatory tax on the rich.
Decrying the 75 percent levy his socialist government is trying to put on millionaires, he moved to Belgium, gave up his French passport, and accepted the grant of citizenship from Russia, where the income tax is a reasonable, flat 13 percent.
Mickelson, meanwhile, chickened out.
He issued a sniveling apology this week, saying, “Finances and taxes are a personal matter, and I should not have made my opinions on them public. I apologize to those I have upset or insulted, and assure you I intend not to let it happen again.”
How pathetic.
Now it’s apparently an insult to the poor — or a thought crime — for a rich and successful American to publicly point out that his taxes are so high he’s thinking of moving to where they’re lower.
It’s too bad about Mickelson. Instead of apologizing and backtracking, he should be telling everyone about how high taxes are driving rich and successful people like him out of the state, demanding serious tax cuts, and threatening to run for governor.
California is a state that already has more takers than makers. It can’t afford any more wusses.
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