Aaron Baddeley
Joined Tour: 2000
Yearly Tournaments: 0
Official Tour Victories: 2007 MasterCard Masters (AUST TOUR), 2007 FBR Open (US TOUR) 2006 Verizon Heritage (US TOUR), 2001 Greg Norman Holden International (Austn), 2000 Holden Australian Open (Austn), 1999 Holden Australian Open (Austn).
Other Victories: 1999 Winner Australian Open, 1999 Winner Riversdale Cup,1998 Winner Vic Junior Masters, Winner Vic Amateur MedalWinner Vic Amateur, Winner US Junior Medal.1996 Winner Croydon Club Champ, Winner Box Hill junior classic, Winner U15 Jack Newton Int'l.
Scoring Average: 71.50
Season Lowround: 70 (-2), 2005 Australian Open, Moonah Link
Best OOM Finish: 1 (2000/01)
Career Lowround:
Highlights: 2009: Returned to work with boyhood coach Dale Lynch in March 2009. Working on changes to his swing. Played in his 7th full season on the USPGA Tour. Had six top-25 finishes, highlighted by a pair of top-10 finishes in May at THE PLAYERS Championship and July at the John Deere Classic...A final-round, 6-under 66 led to his first top-10 finish of the season, a T9 at THE PLAYERS Championship...Posted four rounds in the 60s at the John Deere Classic in July to finish T9. Finished 101st on the Money List.... Played one event on Australasian Tour, T17 at Australian Masters.
2008: BMW Northwest Charity Skins Game
Best finishes 2008 US Tour: T2 Verizon Heritage, T9 World Golf Championships- Accenture Match Play Championship, T10 BMW Championship, T12 Mercedes-Benz Championship, T13 Buik Invitational
2007: Defeated Swede Daniel Chopra on the fourth play off hole to claim the 2007 MasterCard Masters on the Australasian Tour. The win was Baddeley's first in Australia since the 2001 Greg Norman Holden International.
February: fired three birdies in his final four holes to catch and pass Friday and Saturday leader Jeff Quinney and win the FBR Open at TPC Scottsdale by one shot from John Rollins.
A final round of 7 under 64 saw the 25 year old Victorian secure his second career victory on the USPGA Tour after he won the Verizon Heritage in April, finishing with a total of 21-under 263 in the tournament played in his US home town.
An eagle on the third saw the two time Australian Open champion off to a confident start until a bogey on the 14th saw him slip behind. But he recovered quickly with birdies on the 15th, 16th and 17th holes to come home with a win.
2006 Australasian Tour Results:
MFS Australian Open: 9
MasterCard Masters: 5
2006: broke through for his maiden US PGA TOUR victory, rallying with two late birdies to hold out American Jim Furyk and win the 2006 Verizon Heritage by one shot.
Stunned the sporting world as the youngest player to ever win the Australian Open in 1999 ... considers his last round at the 1999 Australian Open as his best ... first amateur to win the Open since Bruce Devlin in 1969 ...
Won Australian Open following year as a professional, and the Greg Norman Holden International beating Sergio Garcia in a play off on the first extra hole ... finished the 2000/2001 season as the PGA TOUR Order of Merit Champion ...
Youngest qualifier in the history of Victorian Open (15 years) ... youngest winner in history of Riversdale Cup (1999) ... represented Australia at Eisenhower Trophy (youngest Australian ever to represent his country in the Eisenhower, Four Nations, Southern Cross and 2001 World Cup among other tournaments, secured USPGA Tour card in 2003, 2004, 2005 & 2006 ...
Had 5 top 10 finishes in US in 2005, his best finish was T4th at the Reno-Tahoe Open. Played one event on Australasian Tour in 2005, finishing T5 at MFS Australian Open ...