Pictured above: Rory Sabbatini waits for somebody to look for him in hide-and-seek. Going to be a loooong wait, Rory.
Every enterprise in life requires its heroes and villains, from movies to your local workplace. And while golf certainly has its heroes -- pick from Tiger Woods or Phil Mickelson, say -- it's often lacked for compelling villains. And what makes a good villain? Well, he gets under your skin not just because of who he is, but because of what he can do to you. The best villains have at least a 50-50 shot of beating the hero.
Such is not the case in golf, where one of the few guys who could conceivably be considered a villain -- Rory Sabbatini -- keeps shooting himself in the foot. With baseball and the Yankees, football and the Patriots, basketball and Kobe Bryant, NASCAR and Kyle Busch, the villain is among the most talented of the bunch. But Rory, poor Rory, keeps coming up short.
Waggle Room runs down the list of Rory's many sins, and they're pretty annoying -- not damning, just annoying. Thing is, Rory had a chance to be a sympathetic figure after getting passed over by Greg Norman for the Presidents Cup in favor of Adam Scott -- Adam Scott! -- but then Rory went out and missed the cut in both of the first two FedEx Cup playoff events. If Rory had stormed his way into the FedEx Cup, he could've been an antihero; instead, he's just one more of the legions of golfers who have missed the target. And that's too bad.
Step it up, Rory. We'd like nothing more than to see someone get under Tiger's skin.
