Rory Sabbatini won the Byron Nelson Championship on Sunday by two shots and it still seems like the golf world doesn't know how to take the South African's 5th PGA Tour win.

As I wrote in a piece earlier this month, I think the success of guys like Sabbatini is great for golf.  Golf needs guys that you make you feel a little queezy or a little annoyed that they're doing well.  The comparsion I made at the time was that golf needed "heels" (a.k.a. bad guys) like in wrestling.  Golf would benefit from players that you root against equally as much as having players with personalities to pull for and like.

Rory Sabbatini is one of those guys.  He and his wife's shirts speak his mind, and he takes quite a bit in the press for it.  He gets annoyed with slow play.  He is cocky and acts like a guy with five majors on his belt, much less five wins.  Yet somehow, I can't dislike him.

He does a ton of charity work and fundraising.  He wore pink on Sunday as a sign of support for the Mickelson family as Amy goes through breast cancer treatment.  And, he's one of the few players that will actually say what he thinks regardless of how the scribes misconstrue it.

The kangaroo may be scared of Rory, but I find him pretty cool.

I'll come out any say it.  I'm a Rory Sabbatini fan.

He's like Kobe Bryant.  Kobe Bryant is perceived as a total showboat, a jerk, and a guy that even his teammates don't like.  I don't know if any of that is true, but that turns me off about him.  At the same time, though, Bryant is a freakin' unbelievable basketball player.  His talent is undeniable and he is basically carrying a franchise on his back.  I have to like.  Therefore, I'm begrudingly a Kobe fan.

Rory may carry himself like he has the golf equivalent of Kobe's talent - basically, that he is Tiger - but I like the guy for some reason.