By John Feinstein, Rocco Mediate
June 2008's US Open produced essentially the most unforeseen and dramatic showdowns in golfing heritage. daily the invincible Tiger Woods used to be challenged by means of Rocco Mediate, a revered journeyman. On Sunday, either ended play tied at par, forcing a playoff. Defying expectancies, Mediate performed Woods to another tie, wasting in basic terms after forcing a sudden-death showdown.
Through all of it, Rocco Mediate emerged as probably the most likable, open, and interesting golfers. In ARE YOU KIDDING ME?, he tells the entire tale of those 5 life-changing days. With John Feinstein, whose insider wisdom of the golfing international is unprecedented, Mediate relives one in all sport's maximum feats, how one guy overcame each concern to problem the game's most interesting.
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W hen the spring came tripping by from the south over the chaparral hills of Shasta, leaving flowers in every footprint as we passed, I set my face for Mount Shasta, the lightesthearted lad that ever mounted horse. A hard day's ride brought me to Portuguese Flat, the last new mining camp and the nearest town to my beloved Mount Shasta. Here I found my former partner in the Soda Springs property, Mountain Joe, and together we went up to Mount Shasta. The Indian chief, Blackbeard, gave me a beautiful little valley then known as Now-ow-wa, but now called by the euphonious name of Squaw Valley, and I built a cabin there.
His disease was consumption. I confidendy commend his experience to other skeletons. I superintended again, and as soon as we had eaten breakfast we got in the boat and skirted along the lake shore about three miles and disembarked. We liked the appearance of the place, and so we claimed some three hundred acres of it and stuck our "notices" on a tree. It was yellow-pine timberland-a dense forest of trees a hundred feet high and from one to five feet through at the butt. It was necessary to fence our property or we could not hold it.
I got Johnny to row-not because I mind exertion myself, but because it makes me sick to ride backward when I am at work. But I steered. A three-mile pull brought us to the camp just as the night fell, and we stepped ashore very tired and wolfishly hungry. In a "cache" among the rocks we found the provisions and the cooking utensils, and then, all fatigued as I was, I sat down on a boulder and superintended while Johnny gathered wood and cooked supper. Many a man who had gone through what I had would have wanted to rest.