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Jim Thorpe paid for not paying. The 62-year-old golfer recently completed a one-year prison term for failure to pay $1.6 million in taxes between 2002-04 and spent 10 months in an Alabama prison camp before transferring to a halfway house and home detention. Thorpe is back on the Champions Tour for the Outback Steakhouse Pro-Am, which opened Friday at TPC Tampa Bay in Lutz, Fla. He shot a 1-over-par 72 and is tied for 40th place. It’s his first tournament since 2009. “With the situation I was in, I didn’t think about golf that much,” he said. “It let me get my life right.”
