I know it's only Thursday and talking about a winner is premature, but could there be a better story than Rocco Mediate winning the British Open after that heartbreaking loss last month at Torrey Pines?
Mediate, who has only finished in the top-30 once in a British Open, is your current clubhouse leader, firing a one-under 69 that included a chip-in on 17 for birdie from the rough and a tricky birdie putt on 18.
Rocco went out with three bogeys in his first five holes, but played the last 13 holes four-under. Smiling the entire time, Mediate appears to have the perfect attitude to approach a golf tournament without the best weather. With the "whatever happens, happens" mantra, Rocco seems to have accepted the playoff loss to Tiger Woods and improve from it.
"I believe a little bit more than i used to," Mediate told Jim Huber after the round today. "I was two or three over and just trying to survive and a couple of things happened and then bang."Mediate might have been a lucky one because the morning weather was so horrible, Phil Mickelson said he thought initially that anything in the 70s would be a good score. Since the rain subsided, the scores have dropped, with Adam Scott being the first player at two-under for the championship.
Big names like Ernie Els, Mickelson, and Vijay Singh were all out in the morning and could have dug themselves too big of a hole if the weather stays like this and a lot of guys keep shooting around par.
