Rory Sabbatini is golf's biggest cry baby
There's a reason Rory Sabbatini is not very well liked among tour players. He complains a lot, lacks etiquette when he gets mad (which is often), and basically is not a nice playing partner.
Yesterday, Sabbatini was being so badly beaten by Tiger Woods (who Sabbatini earlier this year said "was more beatable than ever"), that Sabbatini took it out on a fan, retired firefighter Steve Banky. After the 9th hole (after Tiger just chipped in for a miraculous par, but Rory double bogeyed), Banky asked Sabbatini, `Hey, Rory. Still think Tiger's beatable?''
Sabbatini was furious and ordered a police officer, "Take his **** out of here." After his round, Sabbatini even implied the guy was drunk: "We're out here to do our job - let us do our job. Have a little bit of decorum, a little bit of class out there. I guess a few too many beers were talking.''
Talk about lack of class, Rory. I'm so glad Tiger Woods showed everyone the big loser that you are. You can talk the talk, but ...
41 Comments:
Were you not the same one begging for a Woods-Sabbatini pairing over the weekend? I for one don't blame Rory for having that jackass removed from the gallery. He shouldn't be blamed for some moron making a stupid comment, no doubt induced by beer. Does it matter that the guy is a retired firefighter? Nope. I would have done the same, especially if I was having such a bad day as Rory was having. I don't blame him in the least.
Sabbatini prides himself on "speaking his mind", yet apparently this standard does not apply to the gallery. The word hypocrite comes to mind.
Yes, I wanted to see this match-up so Tiger could trounce Rory Sabbatini into the ground. Rory has no class and is a sore loser. He can dish out a lot of smack talk, but he can't spoon it up.
Colin Montgomerie and Sergio Garcia both have been insulted much, much worse by fans in the U.S., but they never had any of them thrown out.
If you think the question the fan posed was stupid, what do you think of the comment Rory himself posed this year when he made his remark about Tiger being more beatable than ever? How stupid was that?
And there's absolutely no evidence that the fan was drunk.
E - I'm dying to hear your explanation for how some guys you don't know is a "jackass" for asking a pretty reaonable question. Sabbatini said he thought Tiger was more beatable than ever. Sabbatini proceeded to get his ass handed to him by Tiger. Hence, how is it remotely unreasonable to ask Sabbatini if he "still thinks Tiger is as beatable as ever?"
I love your reasoning skills. You randomly assume the retired fire fighter was drunk, and then proceed to explain how the fact that Rory was having a bad day effectively makes it ok for him to be a huge pussy and have a fan kicked out.
You suck
I think Sabbatini is now my new favorite player on Tour.
E was not talking bad about the Firefighter, he was talking bad about Rory.
I agree. It seems that Rory can dish it out but cant take it. He says the guy lacked class, but how much class did he show when he walked off on Ben Crane during play? He likes to run his mouth and start all this drama on the public stage, but when its brought up on the course he freaks out?
Rory didnt just say "Remove him", he said "I want that motherfucker removed right now!". He said this in front of women and children, including his own. The guy has no class. Im glad Woods gave his ego a beatdown on the golf course.
Two simple words for Rory: Cry Baby
I can't believe they threw the guy out.........Are we playing in a communist country or the USA.........Haaaaa........Hey Rory, go back home and cry like a sissy !!!
I think Rory is a cry baby, and his mouth writes checks his body can't cash.
As for the other idiot, how convenient to post as anonymous, hell your probably Rory defending yourself.
Grow a pair, quit acting like an idiot on the course, and then MAYBE someone will take you seriously, and the other tour players might, MIGHT actually like you.
Wow...haven't checked in for awhile here and the first post I see is from the simple minded jackass at 8:30 and 9:03 on this thread. Hey, loser...give it a rest. No one wants to hear your whiney and pathetic defense of your fello a-hole, Rory. Save your lame rants for the only person who will listen to you - your fat wife.
If there is any justice, Rory will have to apologize to the firefighter!
I only hope that this latest outburst from Rory will be enough to call attention to a history of petulant antics. Many of us have seen that Rory stands out for his outbursts towards the gallery and shocking disregard for his fellow competitors. We wouldn't excuse that behavior if he was the best player in the world, which only he seems to believe he is. He demands that the spectators should let him do his job, perhaps he would do well to remember who he works for.
I think it's pretty embarrassing. Before Woods dominated Sabbatini Rory was going on about their record and that it was 1-1. No one seems to remember this. What goofy is talking about is back in 96 Woods shot a final round of 80 and Sabbatini shot a 75 I think. Woods still won by 4 shots. Rory calls that winning when he lost the whole tournament. What a weird one. What is his problem.
Hey Rory-
Wie is looking for you.
Sabbatini - what a weiner. If that's the worst you have to endure while earning a fat check playing golf, then get a real job (like a firefighter) and see what kind of crap you have to deal with on a daily basis. The not-so-great Sabbatini has now supplanted Garcia as the tours #1 cry baby.
I sure would like Rory to have to endure 1/100,000th the abuse Barry Bonds and other baseball and basketball players take day in and day out. This guy freaks out at the most innocuous comment. Mr. Banky should have called Sabbatini what he is, an "ugly, gum-chewing dweeb."
You can get kicked out a PGA tour event for this?, what a bunch of primas donnas.
Hey, e. Sabbatini was "speaking his mind" in press conferences where journalists were sticking microphones in his face and nudging him to "trash talk" Tiger. RS wasn't rudely heckling some guy who was on the job with a huge amount of money at stake. Get your cross-references straight.
Also, if this had been Augusta National, RS wouldn't have had to open his mouth to call security or whatever. Billy Payne would have thrown that heckler off the course himself.
And, as far as RS's language is concerned, yes, uncool. But he's not the only one. We've all heard Tiger drop the F Bomb on TV. And he's thrown a few clubs himself.
Sabbatini's locker room bravado leading up to all this was just theatrical schtick (couldn't you see his tongue in his cheek?) which the press (and bloggers) pounced on and turned into this hardcore putative spat. And even if it wasn't, is Tiger so much of a sacred cow that a golfer ranked NUMBER ELEVEN IN THE WORLD !!! can’t even say he wants to try to beat him? Or that going up against Tiger on Sunday is a measure of accomplishment? Or that he thinks Tiger can be beat? And besides, the youthful Tiger himself demonstrated similar brashness before he cemented his reputation as the Greatest Golfer of All Time. Sabbatini may not be the most tactful guy on tour but he deserves some credit for playful audacity. The problem isn't that a guy like Sabbatini is on the tour, it's that there aren't more characters with entertaining, even controversial, personalities out there with him. I'd much rather tune in to a guy brazenly calling out Tiger and doing a crazy jig after sinking a curling 100 footer at the Masters rather than have some dude tell me jesus made him win.
This whole Rory/Tiger uproar is stupid and louder than it needs to be.
Always the bridesmaid never the bride.
Boo-Hoo Sabbatini, now take your
bag and clubs and run home to mummy.
JERK
Sabbatini is a complete jerk. The guy wasn't drunk, loud or rude. If he was, I would be fine with launching him. But, he wasn't. And I'm no golfing expert, but wasn't Sabbatini the guy who putted out on 17 before his playing partner even hit up, then finished 18 BY HIMSELF in a tournament a couple of years ago? All because he was again being a jerk and didn't like his partners "slow" play. Yeah, that's decorum for you Rory. Grow up or go home you baby. You, and the tour, owe that guy a public apology.
Hey, 7:03 Anonymous. "The guy wasn't drunk, loud, or rude..." Are you kidding? So if I make a taunting comment to a player about to putt or tee off or whatever but I say it politely while I'm drinking a milkshake it's okay? So a lack of decorum only works against you when you're a player? What would you call heckling a player in the last pairing on a Sunday with a million bucks on the line? The decibel level and drinking limits are irrelevant. It was loud enough for Sabbatini to hear, obviously, which was exactly the heckler's intention. He wanted to be heard and screw with Sabbatini's head in the middle of a match. So what if Sabbatini shot his mouth off about wanting to beat Tiger? The real crybabies are the people all outraged about Sabbatini's "nerve." Oh, and Tiger can take care of himself.
Seems evenly split. We sign in as anonymous because we don't have google/blogger accounts or other status. Since when does the gallery have a forum to speak its mind? Is that printed on the tickets? I seem to recall Greg Norman challenging a boor to a battle back in the 90s... would anyone question that front? Rory is exactly the guy we've been waiting for, the non-milquetoast, fairly-opinionated, non-cookiecutter golfer. And what do we do? Villify him. We are the hypocrites.
Right on, Anonymous 9:42 p.m.!
Anonymous @ 9:42pm:
I wouldn't have a problem if the guy were thrown out by anybody but Sabbatini. He's consistently voted the most disliked player on the tour by the players themselves, mainly because of his mouth during the round. Not only that, but he displays poor etiquette whenever he loses his temper, not just when his playing partner is Ben Crane, or someone else who's playing slowly.
It's fine with me if he talks smack in the press room and keeps it there. But he doesn't, so it's open season as long as it's in between shots, as far as I'm concerned.
Let me first say that if a player misses a putt that costs him a hundred k or a match I can understand/forgive a little club throwing and name calling. Yeah, bad etiquette, but every player on tour has been guilty of that, including everyone's sacred cow, Tiger Woods. Who's scarier when they're playing badly? Pat Perez, Woody Austin, or Rory Sabbatini?
And Tom, where is Rory talking smack outside the press room? In the men's room line at Applebees? On Oprah? Where? If he's talking to journalists that's the same as the press room. And the journalists have been relentless trying to provoke quotable "trash talk" from him to sell magazines and newspapers. He should figure that out by now but he's probably so bored he doesn't know what he's saying. He's obviously past caring.
Hey anonymous 7:55...I don't care what smack Sabbatini talks about Tiger. I don't consider that rude, it's just funny because he can't back it up. And I don't care about player throwing hissy fits when they play bad, that too is funny. I have an issue with him having the fan removed for a harmless comment. I've been to this, and other PGA events before. I don't remember any rule that says don't say a word while on the grounds. I don't even remember a rule disallowing comments made in a players direction. And this guy does have a history of crying and his own peers can't stand him, so this wasn't isolated. And for him to then say people need to demonstrate "decorum", are you joking? That's a hypocrite and a baby. Which I wouldn't care about if he wasn't getting fans tossed out of the event they paid to see.
I think Tiger did all the trash talking with his clubs. Rory is just another PGA pro who should be playing on the LPGA. www.flgolfcourse.com
Tiger did all the trash talking with his score. Rory should be playing on the LPGA Tour. I figure by the time Tiger's girl is 3, Rory would lose to her.
Florida Golf Course
"And Tom, where is Rory talking smack outside the press room? In the men's room line at Applebees? On Oprah? Where?"
Well, if you'd read my entire comment you'd know, unless you have a reading comprehension issue. This is what I said in my previous comment:
"He's consistently voted the most disliked player on the tour by the players themselves, mainly because of his mouth during the round."
In case you're still having trouble reading that, it means on the course. With other PGA tour players. During the events. Inside the ropes.
Does that help, or do you need me to break it down more?
Anonymous @ 4:49am:
While I agree with you that Sabbatini was over-the-top in his reaction, and I think Banky was justified with his comment, I think it was also justified that he had to leave. I've been to the Memorial Tournament, and there are several statements in the literature at the course, and possibly signs posted (can't remember for sure) that ask not to speak to the players.
If it were me, I think it would have been worth it to get thrown out for saying that to RS.
Now, that atmosphere is a lot different than in Phoenix at the FBR Open. Not sure what the literature says there.
Tom - We agree on that. To embarrass that little pygmy in front of the gallary was well worth getting thrown out. Good for Banky...
Point 1 American golf fans are now full of drunk Tiger fans, yelling "Get in the hole!"
Point 2 American writers complain about the lack of manliness in the rest of the PGA Tour and the inability of anyone to step up and challenge "Him".
Point 3 If anyone dares show moxy and challenges "Him", he is a jerk.
Point 4 Any fan who berates an American golfer, (think Davis Love III for example) that fan is a jerk. HOWEVER, and american fan is a great guy is he heckles a foreign golfer, especially if he takes prize maoney away from an american.
There...that is how you have it both ways.
Anonymous @ 1:16pm:
Wrong, to all four of your comments concerning me, at least. Glad you're painting all Americans with such a big, fat brush.
I'm not a foam-at-the-mouth Tiger fan. I'm a golf fan. You apparently have a reading comprehension issue when it comes to my comments, at least, because I said that I thought it was justified that he had to leave.
I don't care who Sabbatini mouths off to. The fact that he has a big mouth in the first place is my problem. Of course, if you had actually read the comments, you would've gotten that impression. But you didn't.
Once again, it's well established that RS is very disliked on tour. Because of his big mouth.
All of your points are just a cheap shot at Americans in general. Glad you feel better. As far as I'm concerned, anybody who berates any golfer on the course, they should be escorted off. I would've felt justified giving RS crap if he were an American, and I would have allowed myself to be escorted off quietly.
Now then, take your anti-American comments and stick them where the sun doesn't shine on your worthless arse.
Get ready for the Ryder Cup, Yankee Tom! It is relevant, even though Europe keeps winning.
LOL, "Yankee Tom"...I kinda like that!
The Ryder Cup is soooo next year. I'm getting ready for the President's Cup, though.
I wouldn't consider the Ryder Cup relevant anymore, considering the Americans get thrashed in it every time it's held anymore.
It might be relevant, if the Americans would ever do what the Europeans do...go out and play solid golf and forget about the "team spirit" crap. Everybody should be getting along in the first place without having to focus on it.
Until then, the Europeans will enjoy dominating the event some more.
Hi, Tom. First of all you're addressing two (at least) separate Anonymous's. I'm the one who had the reading comprehension issue vis a vis the "where Rory Sabbatini talks smack post." Yes, I have a horrible problem. I just got back from a GED prep course and I'm on my way to a "English as a Second Language Class" which we have on every other corner here in Califlorexico. So forgive me, I'm rather dense.
But since you felt the need to proclaim that you're not a diehard Tiger fan, just a simple golf fan, allow me to declare that I didn't start off this week being a Rory Sabbatini fan. But I've been pushed into that position because of "the enemies of my enemies are my friends" experience I'm having on this board. My "defense of Sabbatini" premise is a simple paradox:
Rory Sabbatini is being mercilessly denigrated for not having balls based on the evidence of his exposure of his balls by challenging the number one player in the world! He's being labelled a crybaby, a wuss, a guy who can dish it out but can't take it, etc. when actually he's the ballsiest player in the PGA as far as I'm concerned because, instead of meekly rolling over and playing for second place for the next ten years, he dares (continuously) to challenge Tiger.
By my definition, a wuss/crybaby is someone who fakes an injury in order to evaporate from a tournament when they're choking (re: a certain non-exempt player on the LPGA).
By late Sunday Sabbatini had to realize that this was not the day he was going to hand Tiger's balls to him on a plate, but did he go hide in a hotel room? No. Did he show up at his press conference and take it like a man? Yes. Did he take back his comments? No. Right on!
And Connors 321, the analogy of Sabbatini/golf to Bonds/baseball/basketball abuse doesn't fly at all. First of all, golf isn't a team sport (Ryder/President's Cup excluded.) Crowd jeering at baseball, football, hockey and basketball games is not only mostly indistinguishable from the roar of the crowd but is also part of the stadium/coliseum experience -- venues that if you're closer than 25 yards to the players then you're a CEO. But golf is all about SILENCE. That's the contract that, as a patron, you make when you step onto a tournament course. You get to be a lot closer to the action but you have to be QUIET. Hence, my complete disgust with Steve Banky taking it upon himself to taunt Sabbatini in the middle of a round. You want to bust the guy for comments he made to the press during an interview AFTER A ROUND, fine. Stalk him to a bar and harass him there. Sabbatini didn't call Tiger out on the course in the middle of his backswing or in between green and tee. The situations aren't in the least compatible. This bloodthirsty glee that so many posters are demonstrating about Sabbatini's harassment by a so-called golf fan and subsequent loss makes me think they'd be satisfied customers at a Michael Vick sponsored dogfight.
Anonymous @ 10:08pm:
1. LMAO at your first paragraph.
2. I didn't assume you were a Rory fan. I assumed you were defending him in this instance. I just inferred that from your comments, not for sure why.
3. Before Rory opens his mouth, he ought to challenge the #1 player with his clubs first. There's a saying, "It's not bragging if you can back it up." So far, Rory hasn't backed it up, and that makes him look like an oaf. And when he has someone kicked off the course for what Banky did, it shows how mentally fragile he really is. I think somebody else here said (too lazy to find it) that all he had to do was laugh it off, and he earns a little respect. He would've from me.
4. This incident is a microcosm of one of the reasons why Rory isn't liked on the Tour. Want proof of that? Tiger's verbal response, after he let his clubs do the talking: "Everyone knows how Rory is and I just go out there and just let my clubs do the talking. That was fun."
TomBlogical:
1. Happy to amuse you.
2. It was your incredible powers of reading comprehension that intuited that I wasn't a fan.
3. I don't care if you're playing a nine-hole par three for five bucks a hole, or it's a member guest nassau at your country club (for considerably more), or it's Bridgestone. Heckling a competitor is WRONG and completely against the rules of spectator comportment ON A GOLF COURSE. A player's history on or off the course should have no bearing on one's own personal obligation to respect the game.
4. I'm going to let this argument die on the vine because I've made my point. I will say I hope Sabbatini kicks ass this weekend. I'll be rooting for him, along with Sergio, Monty, Kenny Perry, Justin Rose, Phil, Verplank, and Cink. Oh, and Glover and Casey and Edfors and Henry. (I've made a few plays, ahem.) You got any favorites?
Anon @ 11:19am:
1. Good thing, because you are quite amusing. I enjoy good sarcasm. ;-)
2. I'm glad you recognized and acknowledged that.
3. I've repeated time and again that I think it was justified Banky was escorted off the course. The difference is, I said I would have thought it was worth it to be escorted off in this case.
4. I think I've made my point as well. I'll go ahead and cheer for them all, even more so for those in contention who haven't won a major yet. Favorites to win? I (and everybody else) think Woods will be up there, as well as Romero, Garcia, and Furyk if he doesn't WD due to his back. I also look for Goosen to play well. I don't expect Sabbatini to make the cut due to his last 18 at Firestone. I see Steve Flesch as a darkhorse if he hits it straight.
TomBLogical:
I gotta say I'm stoked about Daly. That would be so sweet. Unfortunately, Furyk is like 5 over right now.
I agree with you. I'd really like to see someone who hasn't won a major score one this week.
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