Rory Sabbatini | ||||||||||||
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Personal information | ||||||||||||
Full name | Rory Mario Trevor Sabbatini | |||||||||||
Nickname | The Boy from Bratislava, The Silver Slovak[1] | |||||||||||
Born | Durban, South Africa | 2 April 1976|||||||||||
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.