| Rory Sabbatini | ||||||||||||
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 Sabbatini in 2008 | ||||||||||||
| Personal information | ||||||||||||
| Full name | Rory Mario Trevor Sabbatini | |||||||||||
| Nickname | The Boy from Bratislava, The Silver Slovak[1] | |||||||||||
| Born | 2 April 1976 Durban, South Africa | |||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) | |||||||||||
| Weight | 165 lb (75 kg; 11.8 st) | |||||||||||
| Sporting nationality |  South Africa England (1998) Slovakia (since 2019) | |||||||||||
| Residence | Durban, South Africa | |||||||||||
| Career | ||||||||||||
| College | University of Arizona | |||||||||||
| Turned professional | 1998 | |||||||||||
| Current tour(s) | PGA Tour | |||||||||||
| Professional wins | 9 | |||||||||||
| Highest ranking | 8 (23 September 2007)[2] | |||||||||||
| Number of wins by tour | ||||||||||||
| PGA Tour | 6 | |||||||||||
| Other | 3 | |||||||||||
| Best results in major championships | ||||||||||||
| Masters Tournament | T2: 2007 | |||||||||||
| PGA Championship | T39: 2008 | |||||||||||
| U.S. Open | T30: 2011 | |||||||||||
| The Open Championship | T16: 2019 | |||||||||||
Medal record
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Rory Mario Trevor Sabbatini (born 2 April 1976) is a South African-Slovak professional golfer.[3][4] Sabbatini won six times on the PGA Tour between 2000 and 2011 and was runner-up in the 2007 Masters. He spent 21 weeks in the world top-10 in late-2007 and early-2008, with a high of 8th. Sabbatini won the silver medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics, representing Slovakia.
- ^ "Slovakia's silver medalist, Rory Sabbatini, may see his PGA Tour season come to an abrupt end". Golf Digest. 3 August 2021. Retrieved 10 December 2021.
- ^ "Week 38 2007 Ending 23 Sep 2007" (pdf). OWGR. Retrieved 20 December 2018.
- ^ "Rory Sabbatini je slovenský občan (Rory Sabbatini is a Slovak citizen)" (in Slovak). 20 December 2018. Retrieved 20 April 2019.
- ^ "Rory Sabbatini now playing for Slovakia". USA Today. 11 January 2019. Retrieved 20 April 2019.