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Home > Golf > PGA Tour Players > Rory Sabbatini
Rory Sabbatini
Golf is an outdoor sport where player as an individual or from varied teams strike a ball targeting a hole using various clubs. PGA stands for Professional Golfers' Association Tour. The PGA Tour is an organization headquartered in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, USA that operates the USA's main professional golf Tours.
Rory Sabbatini was born on April 2, 1976 in Durban, South Africa. His height is 5 foot 10 inches and weight 160 pounds. His best PGA Tour Finishes are in 2000 Air Canada Championship, in 2003 FBR Capital Open and in 2006 Nissan Open. His other victories are in 2003 WGC-World Cup with Trevor Immelman.
His recent PGA Tour highlights, he started the year with a pair of top-10s. He closed with a career-best 8-under 62 to finish runner-up at the Sony Open in Hawaii, his first top-10 in eight starts in Honolulu. He held the first round lead at the Sony Open in Hawaii thanks to a 5-under 65. It was his best effort since finishing T2 at the 2004 WGC-NEC Invitational One week later and posted second successive top-10 with T10 at the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic.
In only two events has pocketed $559,663, more than half the $920,988, he made in 26 starts in 2005 finished alone in second at the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, posting his third top-10 of the season in just five starts, including his second runner-up effort. He collected $583,200, enough to push him over the $1-million mark for the season.
His career highlights in 2004, he earned over $2 million for the first time in a season and was ranked a career-best 16th on the final season money list. He made 19 cuts in 26 Tour starts and had a personal-best seven top-10s, including two runner-up finishes part of a three-man playoff with Sergio Garcia and Padraig Harrington at the Buick Classic. He qualified for his first Tour Championship and finished T10, once again teamed with Trevor Immelman at the WGC-World Cup in Seville, Spain, to defend their 2003 title.
In Personal, he raised in South Africa, began playing at age 4, he was youngest Tour member in 1999 at age 22 Travels throughout the season in a RV with family Wears camo print golf pants each week on Tour to raise awareness for the Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund. He helped contribute almost $200,000 in 2005 for soldiers and their families.
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