Rocco Mediate
Rocco Mediate
Rocco Anthony Mediateis an American professional golfer who has won six times on the PGA Tour and three times on the Champions Tour. Mediate's most notable moment of his career came in the 2008 U.S. Open at Torrey Pines South Course where he finished runner-up after losing the first sudden death hole after an 18-hole playoff to Tiger Woods...
ProfessionGolfer
Date of Birth17 December 1962
care certain golf hard lay low shoots whoever
It's so hard and so penalizing and so good, that it won't let you lay down. If you can't do certain things around this golf course, you don't get to win. It's whoever shoots a low score, I don't care how you shoot it.
came course plays
They wanted to make the course play like it used to. Well it does. It plays like it did when I first came here in 1991.
ahead beat few good guys phil round though tiger tough
They've been there many more times. Phil is right there, he's close. Tiger is always close. As long as he's upright, he's close. If those guys go out and play a good round of golf, it's going to be tough to beat them, even though I'm a few ahead of them. But I know what I have to do. I'll see if I can do it.
almost dogged happened knees last pain strange today
A lot of strange things happened out there today -- a lot of them. I almost couldn't go off No. 10 (because of back pain that dogged him the last two days). I almost went to my knees on No. 12.
advance bad ball bunch guys people watching
Sometimes you'll get guys who can't advance the ball at all. They're put there by their companies, and I feel bad for them because there's a bunch of people watching and these guys are embarrassed. And there isn't much you can do.
last shut
Actually, they didn't. But I'd tell them, 'Just look at last year's U.S. Open,' and then they shut up.
coming wind
You never know where the wind is coming from. You think you do, but you don't.
concern earlier less
All of that is way less of a concern than it was earlier in the year,