In 2016, Rocco Mediate won the Senior PGA Championship, one of the five senior majors.
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16 Facts About Rocco Mediate
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Rocco Mediate picked up another victory at the 1993 KMart Greater Greensboro Open, but he then had a long layoff due to a ruptured disk.
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Rocco Mediate underwent major back surgery in 1999, but lost practically five years of his career.
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Rocco Mediate returned to the Tour in 1996 playing under a special medical extension and performed steadily.
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Rocco Mediate has been featured in the top 20 of the Official World Golf Ranking and considered to be one of the best putters in golf.
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At the 2006 Masters, Rocco Mediate was in contention to win the event on the final day until he took a septuple-bogey ten on the par-three 12th hole.
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Rocco Mediate's best finish in a major championship was a second-place showing at the 2008 U S Open at Torrey Pines South Course.
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Rocco Mediate's performance gained him 111 spots in the world golf rankings, moving him from 158th to 47th place.
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Rocco Mediate started on Thursday, with a hole-in-one on the 189 yard par-3 3rd hole.
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Rocco Mediate became the oldest wire-to-wire winner on the PGA Tour since at least 1970.
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Rocco Mediate joined the Champions Tour for 2013 after turning 50 and his exemption for his 2010 PGA Tour win ended.
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Rocco Mediate won in his debut at the Allianz Championship, the 16th Champions Tour player to do so.
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In May 2016, Rocco Mediate won his first senior major championship at the Senior PGA Championship, with a three-stroke victory over the defending champion Colin Montgomerie.
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Rocco Mediate's winning total of 265 broke the previous record by three and was the first wire-to-wire victory at the event since Jack Nicklaus in 1991.
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Rocco Mediate's victory was sealed when he holed out from a greenside bunker on the 71st hole of regulation play for birdie.
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Rocco Mediate is a distant cousin of Puerto Rico Islanders soccer player Domenic Rocco Mediate.
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