I think Rory has made it perfectly clear that he doesn't care what Tiger, his other fellow competitors or the public think of him. How many of you could walk out on your self-employed job and still get a check for $170,000. He's a jerk. We all know it. None of this should surprise anyone.
However, we all make mistakes in life. If he were smart, he would firstly call or write to Tiger and apologize. Then, he should issue a press release saying that he acted inappropriately and made a big mistake. He should then apologize to all of the tournament volunteers, the tournament organizers, the fans and the his fellow competitors. Finally, he should donate his last place winnings back to the foundation and kick in some extra cash of his own pocket without publicizing that part. Issue would be closed and hopefully he will have learned an important lesson about respect. That is how a straight up gentlemen would handle a mess he made!! He would come out of the deal without having years of shame and remorse and be able to sleep at night.
If you are a runner, you withdraw from an event before a race with shin splints. If your a football or baseball player, you let your coach or trainer know during the game and go from there. If you play 3 rounds of golf and are in dead last and feel shin splints, you finish the tournament on Sunday.
If hes going to withdraw at all he's best off telling the truth in a situation like this. For example, if he simply cant find his game on the course and feels it would be worse for his confidence to play on Sunday. Best option of course is to play through it, you may have to one day in the hunt.
I think he needs to start thinking about sportsmanship. He has demonstrated more than once that he has little.
Last edited by MyGolfster : January 2nd, 2008 at 09:03 PM.
the golf world would be better without him. He showed no class in doing that and therefore should get some discrimination. GO JOHN DALY! i want to see somthing out of him this year.
After he played in Wednesday's pro-am, Sabbatini took advantage of another kind of opportunity as he visited the USS Boxer, a Navy assault ship. The South African and his wife, Amy, were there to donate $170,000 to United Through Reading, a non-profit that allows servicemen and women deployed aboard ships to read books aloud to their children on DVDs.
"One (of the servicemen) had a 22-month-old son and was in service over in Iraq and hasn't seen him for four and a half months, (and he) wasn't able to get his son and talk to him on the phone," said Sabbatini, who has two young children of his own.
"So through United Through Reading and through watching videos, his son talked to him, recognized his voice and recognizes him. It's unfortunately one of those things that we seem to forget about and we take for granted out here on the TOUR, and we were just fortunate that we were able to contribute to it."
The donation, which is the largest single donation ever to the program, also happened to match the amount of money Sabbatini won for last place when he withdrew from the Target World Challenge presented by Countrywide.
Sabbatini was criticized in the media for the early departure, which also was not well-received by the tournament host, Tiger Woods. Sabbatini, who is also generous in his support of the Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund, said he felt Wednesday's donation was the right thing to do.
"We thought about it and we thought we'd put it to some good use," he said.
December 18th, 2007, 05:12 PM
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