Rocco Mediate

And Scott, it's very, very exciting, uh, show we have in store.

Rocco Mediate, uh, best known for having, uh, a 19-hole playoff with Tiger Woods in the 2008 US Open.

But more than that, he is really a very entertaining guy, and, uh, looking forward to, to speaking with him.

Can't wait for your interview with him, and he was a, a, a part of what some consider the greatest moment in, in golf history.

Welcome back in.

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I am, I'm really excited, uh, to welcome Rocco Mediate, uh, to the show.

Uh, Rocco is going to be the, um, the honoree at, uh, the ...

That's the...

I was lucky enough to play Rocco Mediate once, and we talked about golf, and he said a line that I remember.

He said, drinking helped me play better golf right up until it didn't.

That's very deep.

Nice.

And by the way, I don't remember many of those rounds.

How did you end up playing with Rocco Mediate?

I got a gig doing comedy at the Coppinwood Member Guest.

And, and, uh, here we are.

We have Rocco Mediate, uh, all the way from Phoenix, Arizona.

And Rocco, welcome to Tour Validated.

I'm glad you're, you, you text me.

Um, okay, so we're gonna, we're gonna get into a bunch of stuff here because y- you know, obviously there was, you know, our relationship's o- o- obviously quite fun, but you are very, very popular amongst the golfing community.

Um, especially since you got into social media and started sharing your knowledge and, and, and the back and forth that we have on the show and this and that.

There's a lot of intrigue around Rocco Mediate.

Um, this is an equipment show, but we are gonna talk a little bit about your game.

Just a little bit of bounce, you know, but that's the way it works.

Same thing with Rocco.

Rocco could have had a U.S. Open, but my goodness, that guy wouldn't let him go.

No, he wouldn't.

He's a character.

It caught up with him.

He played, what, three or four years, and it caught up with him.

And it's like Rocco.

I find it interesting.

Rocco, Rocco Mediate, you know, of course, one of the greatest showdowns against Tiger Woods and one of Tiger's most famous wins along the way was against Rocco.

But he talked about this and he feels like the biggest issue the U.S. is having is way overanalyzing everything.

Yeah.

And it was like the shot you – exactly the shot you just said.

And if you watch some of Rocco Mediate's stuff, he talks about – and he's from Pennsylvania, but he played in South Florida – college golf learned to Rick Smith had him do exactly what Jeff just said.

You want to brush, it comes down, but it's level.

And when you do that level, you're using the bounce.

I was listening to the Chargers game today, satellite radio.

They're talking about how one guy was on there talking about how he – oh, it was an advertisement for – it was Rocco Mediate advertising for this golf show.

And he said, I can tell you because I've been there.

I've done this.

So if you remember in 2008, Tiger won the U.S. Open on a torn ACL and broken knee.

Limping his way to the finish to beat Rocco Mediate in an 18-hole playoff on a Monday at Torrey Pines, which I was just recently at.

And by the way, we're going.

We're going to go play next spring.

He could.

Yeah.

But, I mean, like, if you think about 08 when he was injured, he struggled to beat Rocco Mediate, right? Yeah, he did.

He did it.