Q. This is the best you've putted all year?
ROCCO MEDIATE: This is the best I've putted for a couple years, trust me.
I just did one thing last week when I was at Firestone. I just moved my right arm further down the shaft, almost on to the steel, and that engaged my body again. I was too much -- it was awful.
I was speaking with Rick Smith about it last week and I said, "Check this out."
He goes, "Say, that's something." The body is moving' that's what you're supposed to do. I got away from it and it was crap when I went back to it. I never thought about switching -- but now, I really putted good every day here. I made a lot of good putts here and I'm looking forward to Pennsylvania. That's my next one.
Q. How far down?
ROCCO MEDIATE: I'd have to show you but it's pretty much -- it's not straight. I was up here. I had too much angle and went down that way. All of a sudden, speed came back. I left one putt short this week and that was on 14. That's the only one. Everything else had speed. So I can't complain.
Q. This could be the first of many victories for Adam.
ROCCO MEDIATE: Absolutely. Oh, my God, yeah. He's as good as you can get, really. He hasn't even tapped -- what is he, 24? Justin is 23? We've got our hands full.
I look at it this way, I'm 40, so I try to push, push, push and get better and hang with them as long as I can. The length is a big thing now. That's a big advantage. Some of the clubs they were hitting into par 5s yesterday, I'm going, "Well, I can't do that." But I can still make birdies the other way.
But when you're hitting 7-irons instead of 3-irons or 5-woods you've got kind of an advantage. Those guys, it's survival of the fittest. That's okay.
JOAN vT ALEXANDER: Rocco, can we go through your birdies and bogeys, please?
ROCCO MEDIATE: I hit it just over the green on 2 with a 3-iron. Pitched it down to a foot. That was like 20 feet from the hole on the right.
I hit it into the hazard on 4. Only fairway I missed today. Just blocked it a yard and took a bounce and went where it should have went. Then hit it on the green and 2-putted.
7, I hit it over the green, my third shot, easiest chip -- I pitched it right in. Made birdie and that kind of got me started.
Then I hit it to 15 feet on 8 and made it.
20 feet on 9 and made it.
12 feet on 10 and made it. I'm like, here we go again.
Q. How far was the chip?
ROCCO MEDIATE: 20 feet. But the biggest putt besides 18 was the next putt, 11. Hit a so-so 4-iron about 30 feet left of the hole and left the first putt eight feet short -- I left two putts short today, I apologize. And I made that one. That was huge.
Then I birdied -- I hit a little cut 5-iron into 12. I had a 12-footer down the hill and made that.
Then I hit a 5-wood, I don't know how that ball didn't cut. It was over the bunker, flopped it over about eight feet and made that.
Going into 16, it's such an intense hole. I shot it right at the flag and missed it about 20 feet left of the hole on the fringe. I wasn't even going to lay it to the right. I was just going to try to knock it in -- my caddy just said, "Get it a little right of the hole," and I'm like, okay. I almost hit a good shot. Almost chipped it in. Thought I was going to chip it in.
Anyway -- no. I sent him home Sunday. I'll see him tonight. All in all, I certainly can't complain this week. It's been awhile.
Q. (Inaudible.)
ROCCO MEDIATE: No. They have got school tomorrow. They were out for two weeks -- I've been home six weeks and they have been out three of them, so I haven't missed them that much yet. School starts tomorrow and they are not happy -- and neither would I.
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