ONCE IN A LIFETIME TOKYO 2020
Late on Saturday night in Slovakia, crowds gathered in public places to watch Rory Sabbatini’s closing round in the Tokyo Olympics. Up until that point, they only had a shooting Gold Medal and a canoeing silver to cheer, but now they had Sabbatini, the oldest player in the field, screeching his way up the leaderboard.
The reason he was playing for Slovakia was through his wife, Martina, and she was literally right by his side as his regular caddie had quit on him to go and work for Jason Dufner a month previously.
To make matters even more interesting, CT Pan of Chinese Taipei had his wife, Michelle, on the bag as a one-off and he was in the middle of tying the course record of 63 and also threatening a medal. The two of them had teed off seven groups back of the leading three-ball on Sunday.
“I went into the final round thinking I had played myself out of a medal, so I didn’t even go there with any of the team uniform for the medal ceremony,” explains Sabbatini.
“I had a really bad warm-up – I hit about 20 balls before I finally handed the driver to my wife and said ‘I
