Rocky Thompson
Digital Seniors Classic Champion

A ROCKY ROAD TO VICTORY – Thompson Rolls to Digital Title
Gordon, Joe. The Boston Herald. September 16, 1991
CONCORD - In the 1960s, they called what Rocky Thompson did yesterday an LSD trip. In the high-tech 1990s, they call it a PGA trip – right to the winner's circle of the $400,000 Digital Seniors Classic at Nashawtuc Country Club. Thompson shot a 70 in yesterday's final round to finish at 11-under-par 205 and out duel Lee Trevino and Bruce Crampton, winning his second tournament in 622 combined Tour events and pocketing $60,000.

Thompson, 51, then made a revelation. He announced he had been hooked up to a space-age sound-light relaxation machine all week, and the device had helped him retain his poise. Whether the machine works or not, no one can deny Thompson looked awfully calm when he flopped a wedge inside 10 feet on the final hole. It rolled dead center for the birdie that gave him a 1-stroke victory over Crampton, whose 4-under-par 68 just ahead of Thompson put him on the board at 10 under, worth $35, 000.

Gartner (a business partner of Thompson's) explained the machine covers the ears and eyes, makes sounds and makes the wearer see colors. The only color Thompson wanted to see was green as in $355,472 , 10th on the money list. Gartner said the machine has been researched for 20 years and taps into an Alpha, Theta or Delta wave state of consciousness. He said it affects the optic nerve and auditory canal and has aided learning-disabled students. Thompson, who did a push dance when the birdie putt dropped, simply called it a "Mo-chine" and insisted he was far more relaxed down the stretch than he had been in other tournaments.

"Bless that machine," said Thompson. "I was far more relaxed than I was before in similar situations; normally my hands would be a little jittery, but I noticed on the back nine that I was completely calm. It's strange."

VICTORY ATTRIBUTED TO PEACE OF THE ROCK -- Calm, Cool, Collected, Thompson guns down Trevino and Crampton
Murphy, Tim. Golf World. September 20, 1991. p.56
Concord, Mass – If there'd been a power outage at the Vista Hotel last Sunday morning, Bruce Crampton might have become the Digital Seniors Classic Champion. But there wasn't, and he is not. The crown instead rests on the head of High Delane Thompson, a 90's kind of guy who spent his final hours at tournament headquarters doing all the electronically correct things.

About 8:30 in the morning, Rocky Thompson plugged himself into a contraption called the Paradise light/sound machine for 30 minutes of chilling out, prior to leaving for Nashawtuc Country Club to protect a one-shot lead over Lee Trevino and Al Geilberger. Rocky's longtime pal, John Garter, the man who turned Toco, Texas's mayor onto the relaxation device earlier in the week, later talked of theta waves, balancing the hemispheres of the brain and how the machine benefited Down's Syndrome kids and people with learning disabilities

Click Here to see the testimonial that Olympic Silver Medalist, Christine Boudrais has given for the DAVID Paradise devices.