Aron Price
Joined Tour: 2006
Yearly Tournaments: 13673.02
Official Tour Victories: 2008 Livermore Valley Wine Championship (Nationwide Tour)
Other Victories: 2003 & 2004 Western Amateur Medallist / 2004 Western Amateur - Broke single round record & 4 round total record / 2004 Rice Planters Amateur winner / 2004 Players Amateur winner / 2004 Won 4 College Tournaments in USA
Scoring Average: 71.9 (20 rnds, 2006)
Season Lowround: 70 (-2) R2, 2006 PGA Championships, Hyatt Coolum
Best OOM Finish: 22 (2006, 2007)
Career Lowround: 61 (-9), 2004 Western Amateur Strokeplay, Point O Woods, Michigan USA
Highlights: 2008: Earned his 2009 US PGA Tour card after finishing 18th on the Final Money List. Will be his rookie season on the US Tour.
Had one victory in his three top ten finishes.
2008 April: Broke through for his first professional victory, claiming the 2008 Livermore Valley Wine Championship on the Nationwide Tour.
Won on the second hole of a play-off after coming from four strokes behind overnight. Picked up $US108,000 and became the fourth Australian to win on the 2008 N'wide Tour in just six events. Moved to 4th on the Money List.
Best fiishes 2008 Nationwide Tour: P1 Livermore Valley Wine Country Championship at Wente Vineyards, 3 WNB Golf Classic, T5 Ford Wayne Gretzky Classic Presented by Samsung, T13 Bank of America Open, T15 Moonah Classic
2007: Played in three Australasian events at the start of 2007 with best results T14 at the Jacobs Creek Open and T16 at the prestigious Johnnie Walker Classic, moving to number 6 on the Australasian Tour Order of Merit.
Finished 22nd on Final 2007 OOM.
Played on the US Nationwide Tour in 2007 where he is fully exempt.
2007: April: Came up just short in his bid to win his first career title on the Nationwide Tour in finishing in a tie for second at the Livermore Valley Wine Country Championship. On a final day where only two of the 61 competitors managed to break par, Price shot a one-over par 73, for a two-over tournament total, in finishing two shots behind the winner Omar Uresti. Moved from 54th at the beginning of the week to seventh on the official Nationwide Money List.
2006 Australasian Tour Results:
Johnnie Walker Classic: WD
Jacob’s Creek Open: T4
ING NZ PGA Champs: T21
MFS Australian Open: *
MasterCard Masters: T39
Blue Chip NZ Open: T35
Cadbury Schweppes PGA: T62
2006 Von Nida Tour Results:
National Bank Vic PGA: T8
Vic Open: T2
Bega Cheese NSW PGA: T8
Toyota Southern Classic: *
SA PGA: *
WA PGA:*
Nth Qld X-Ray Services Cairns Classic:*
Minniecon & Burke Qld Masters: *
Roadcon Qld Open:*
Greater Building Society Qld PGA:*
Proton NSW Open:*
2006: Finished 22nd on Australasian Tour OOM in his first year on the Tour with his best result T4 at the Jacob's Creek Open...Had three top 10 finishes from three starts on the 2006 Von Nida Tour with a T2 at the Vic Open and T8 at the NSW PGA and Vic PGA, finishing 16th on Von Nida Tour Money List.
Made the cut in seven of 11 starts during his rookie season on the 2006 Nationwide Tour, including three top-10s. Finished the season No. 52 on the money list, with $117,858. Began the year with a T4 at the Jacob's Creek Open Championship, followed by a T21 at the ING New Zealand PGA Championship. Didn't play again until a missed cut at the Preferred Health Systems Wichita Open in late July. Strong performances included a career-best, runner-up showing at the Permian Basin Charity Golf Classic, in which he dropped a playoff to Brandt Snedeker and a seventh-place finish at the National Mining Association Pete Dye Classic.
2005: Only previous start on the Nationwide Tour prior to his rookie season was a 70th-place showing at the 2005 Gila River Golf Classic. Missed the cut in his only two career starts on the PGA TOUR. Winner of two Gateway Tour Beach Series events in 2005.
2005: Finished T13 at 2005 MasterCard Masters
2004: made the cut at the 2004 Australian Open, 2004 Western Amateur Medallist, 2004 Western Amateur - Broke single round record & 4 round total record, 2004 Rice Planters Amateur winner, 2004 Players Amateur winner, 2004 Won 4 College Tournaments in USA.
2003 Western Amateur Medallist.