Rory Sabbatini posts 68 in round two at Australian PGA Championship
Rory Sabbatini is the only South African playing the field of this Australian Professional Golf Association Championship.
Tied for 52nd, by the looks of it, he does not seem to be doing his country all that proud. Following is a breakdown of the unheralded Sabbatini in this tournament.
Round one began with a decent even-par, which was ‘shot to h**l’ so to speak well before the second round was done.
The bogey on the par-3 second was not recovered. A disastrous double bogey befell the Sabbatini challenge on the third hole.
The bogey on the fifth was largely the end of him, but he failed to learn of course, and the average putting went sloppy, seeing him card three more bogeys at holes nine, eleven, and fourteen.
So much for South Africa.
Round two was equally dispassionate, especially for someone whose golfing career started at the tender age of 4, to mention nothing of being the youngest member of the PGA Tour in 1999!
On the front nine, there were three birdies, the first on the par 5 hole three. The other two followed on holes six and eight with an even-par slapped in between the two.
The next nine holes had witnessed three birdies at holes ten, 12 and 16. There was a bogey in there too between the first two birdies (at par three hole 11 precisely). The day ended at a low under-4 68.
Andrew Kelly of Australia at no. 151 brought up the tail of the tournament, finishing the round two at a 10-over 82.
The Fort Worth, Texas-based Rory Sabbatini’s professional career has been riddled with controversies before.
In December 2007, Sabbatini was at the helm of considerable controversy when he became the first person in the history of the Target World Challenge (now called the World Challenge with the sponsorship name following) to withdraw from the event.
The annual event features an 18-player field, consisting of elite golfers, which has traditionally been hosted by Tiger Woods and the Tiger Woods Foundation.
Proceeds from the game almost always go to the various Tiger Woods Foundation college scholarship programmes it has helped initiate.
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