This guy just grates on my nerves!! I would have rather seen just about anyone besides him win the Tournament.  I think alot of my dislike still stems from last years incident with Ben Crane, the guy comes across as classless and quick tempered.  Maybe I am alone in this school of thought but he is no gentleman and seems like a pretty poor sport.   I have heard from a few guys that played on the smaller Tours with him that he is quite an arse hole in person.  I have my flame retardant suit on so flame away!!

I am not a Rory fan either, and there were other ways to do what he did that would have been more PC.  However, the good thing is what he did is remembered, and if it makes the speed of play pick up it was worth it.

Something needs to be done about the pace of play on the PGA Tour.  There is no excuse for a round of golf to take 4 1/2 - 5 hours in threesomes when somene is spotting your ball for you, most the time you are on the fairway and the green, and you have such a detailed yardage book, it's marked for every blade of grass.....  It's tiring to watch golf take that darn long.

Rory did what every other pga player wanted to do last year to Ben.  He walked away from a player that stood over his ball like he was paralyzed for minutes at a time.  It is excruciatingly painful to watch Ben Crane play golf and many PGA players actually thanked Rory for what he did after it happened.
When 1 player in the group is slow they all get put on the clock and His group was on the clock all day.
It is a $20,000 fine for 10 clock violations.

 OK, so maybe you shouldn't leave your playing partner and stroll onto the next hole. But anyone who has suffered through 5½-hour rounds at the local muni on a Saturday can certainly sympathize with being stuck with the notoriously slow Crane.

It didn't help that Sabbatini had already been paired with Crane on Thursday and Friday, then found himself in the group behind him Saturday. This is a guy who, in Las Vegas a few years ago, actually pulled out his yardage book and studied the contours sketched in it before putting.

''I need to work on picking it up,'' Crane admitted.

He does, and he's not alone. The tour is full of players who aren't much quicker. And, if walking off on your playing partner is a breach of etiquette, playing at a snail's pace is even worse.

Look at the USGA rulebook and there's almost an entire page devoted to the proper pace of play. ''Play at a good pace and keep up,'' one blue headline reads. ''Be ready to play,'' says another.

''At the end of the day, slow play is the bane of the game,'' USGA executive director David Fay said.

Ultimately, the responsibility for slow play rests with the PGA Tour, which talks a good game but seldom does anything about it. Players are put on the clock and warned if they get behind, with the vague threat of a possible fine if they do it too much.

But, as Allem once said, that's like a highway patrolman pulling a car over for doing 100 mph and telling the driver he'll be watching him the next three miles and give him a ticket if he does it again.

Want to get tough with players? Start passing out two-stroke penalties every time a group falls too far behind. Make them finish under a certain time or add a stroke to their score for every 15 minutes they go over.

The trickle-down effect would be immediate. Players would stop reading putts from 14 different directions, stop taking repeated practice swings, and stop throwing grass in the air to see if the wind has changed in the last 10 seconds.

Even better for golf, the guys in the foursome in front of you at your favorite course might stop doing the same things.

All I know is Rory took names and kicked some arsh last weekend.
He Wore a Elvis belt and carried his kids around after winning on a very tough track. 

No one would have watched the final round if Ben Crane was leading

All Hail Rory 

I agree with the above quote. I don't either like or dislike Rory but I was glad that he did something that many PGA touring professional would love to, make a "statement" to slowpokes to speed up the play. As I recalled, at that fiasco, Rory already was close to his 10th bad timing and none of them was his fault so I can't blame him for not wanting to be fined for his 10th offense.

What Rory did yesterday was very impressive, hanging in there in front of rancous pro-Couples crowd and not folding in or losing his cool to the crowd.

I still don't understand why Curtis or Zinger would turn against Rory even though majority of players was glad that Rory did something even though he went over the line with his walking off on Crane. Give Crane some credit for starting to speed his play up recently.

We need players like Sabbatini on the tour.  Golf has changed quite a bit these days and its refreshing to me to see someone who will openly act like an ass, just to shake things up.

Thats WWE

I agree with jake there is no reason to have World Wildlife Foundation refugees!  There is no need for the greenies on the golf course

Really though, I am not a huge fan of Sabbatini, it is mainly because of his deameanor not what he did to Crane.  I actually liked that he took some action, what else are you going to do in that situation?  There is nothing to do but start playing ahead, I have done it a time or two before

Personally, I think Rory did the RIGHT thing last year in regards to Ben. Ben's been put on the clock for slow play so many times, and he just wasn't getting the message. So Rory just did something to really get his attention about it. I believe Ben even made a statement acknowledging that he plays slow, and was going to try and speed up his routine following the incident. Some people just need to get hit over the head before they get the message. Rory did that. And since the Tour wasn't doing much to speed up the pace of play, someone had to. I commend him for taking a stand against the slow-pokes.

Dave

As I said earlier.  Neither of them are particularly high on my list - however, there is a right way and a wrong way to do things.  Mr. Rory did every single thing wrong - and that made the wrongs of the other party seem less 'bad'.

I'm up in the air about Rory... 

I can see him getting upset with Ben Crane that their group got put on the clock for Ben's slow play but on the other hand somebody needed to make a statement about slow play.

The play has got so slow that in a 3 hour TV time slot they barely make it through 9 holes...   

If he's such an Arse in person I wonder how he got a good looking wife?   

I agree that Crane was waaay too slow.  However, the group had been put on and off the clock during the day AND they were not on the clock when Rory walked off.   And if he was doing it too show Crane a lesson, why wait till towards the end of the round?  One reason - he's a jerk.

Play by the rules, talk to your playing partner?  Just for starters?

Now me being me, if I was the guy who did pairings?  I'd pair them together from now onw on Thursday and Friday.