BMW Championship 2009
Two days after being left off the Presidents Cup team, Rory Sabbatini (FSY) had seven birdies in a round of 5-under 66 to share the lead with Steve Marino (FSY) in the BMW Championship on Thursday. They had a one-shot lead over Bo Van Pelt and Marc Leishman (FSY), who only qualified for the third U.S. PGA Tour playoff event by making an eagle on his final hole on Monday in the Duetsche Bank Championship. Tiger Woods (FSY), a four-time winner at Cog Hill, was among those at 68.
The group included Geoff Ogilvy (FSY) and Padraig Harrington (FSY). Ogilvy was the first player to get to 5 under, which he attributed to a few long birdie putts. He took a double bogey on the seventh hole by hitting his tee shot into the water, yet recovered with consecutive birdies to end his round. Sabbatini won the Byron Nelson Championship in May and appeared to be in good shape to make the Presidents Cup team until Y.E. Yang (FSY) stunned the golf world with his comeback win over Woods at the U.S. PGA Championship to bump Sabbatini out of the top 10.
Team captain Greg Norman (FSY) then used his two captain’s picks on 17-year-old Ryo Ishikawa (FSY) of Japan, who has won four times in the last calendar year; and Adam Scott (FSY) of Australia, who was in the worst slump of his career and has fallen out of the top 50 in the world ranking. “If I’d been playing well over the past couple weeks and didn’t get picked, I might have something to complain about,” said Sabbatini, who has missed four cuts in his last eight starts and has not finished in the top 30 since winning in Dallas. “But you know what? The situation is such … I’m here this week. I’m going to focus on this.”
Tags: BMW Championship, Geoff Ogilvy, Golf, Greg Norman, Rory Sabbatini, Ryo Ishikawa, sport, Tiger Woods
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