BETHESDA, Md. - Kenny Perry has decided to play in the British Open next week after meeting with doctors for his mother, who is dying of blood cancer.

Perry was criticized last year when he did not go to golf’s oldest championship, sticking to his commitment to play in Milwaukee and to his goal of making the Ryder Cup team for the competition held in his native Kentucky.

He had planned all along to play this British Open, which starts next week at Turnberry in Scotland. Perry had second thoughts, however, when doctors put his mother in hospice. She has been suffering fr...

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