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Big first round in the cards for Mediate

By Gene Wojciechowski
ESPN.com

Thursday, April 6, 2006

AUGUSTA, Ga. -- Rocco Mediate's guru isn't much to look at. Leather sandals. White socks. Khaki shorts. Orange shirt. Straw hat. You don't wear this to Augusta National; you wear it to clean your garage. But here he was Thursday, standing quietly under the outstretched arms of the famed "big oak tree," which was planted here about 150 years ago and now serves as the Masters week gathering place. (By the way, 150 years is about how often a grown man not in a nursing home should wear sandals and ...

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