Fleck: "It's a shame that I used those very clubs to defeat him."

Just two great bits from Jack Fleck's My Shot with Guy Yocom:

Just before setting out on the drive to San Francisco for the U.S. Open, I packed my Motorola record player and Mario Lanza records. Nothing was more soothing to me than hearing him sing "I'll Walk With God." At the end of each day at Olympic, I would return to my hotel room alone, do my hatha yoga and listen to Mario Lanza. His singing put me in a wonderful frame of mind.

And this about his fellow Hogan staff member, Ben Hogan.

Hogan had arrived before me. When I got there he hand-delivered to me two wedges he had made up in addition to the irons and woods he'd already given me. It was just unbelievable, the kindness he continued to show me. In a sense it's a shame that I used those very clubs to defeat him.

Fleck will be at Olympic and is slated to come to the media center for a visit. I think I'll ask if Mario Lanza's on his ipod!