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Aaron Baddeley: Pga Tour
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PGA TOUR player Aaron Baddeley will attend the event, as will AJGA Board of Directors President Gayle Champagne who will serve as team manager for the team during the tournament. The Golf Channel will ... travel with the team and will air a one-hour feature on the tournament and the Fiji Islands.
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Editor's Note: Aaron Baddeley returns this week to Arizona as the defending champion of the FBR Open. Last year he rallied from three shots back of Jeff Quinney with birdies on the 15th, 16th and 17th holes to secure his second career PGA Tour title.
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In 2002, Baddeley played on the second tier Nationwide Tour in the U.S. and placed tenth on the money list to earn a PGA Tour card for 2003. He had second place finishes on the PGA Tour in 2003 at the Sony Open in Hawaii and 2004 at the Chrysler Classic of Tucson. However he struggled for consistency, and after a solid rookie season, when he finished 73rd on the money list, he only just retained his card in 2004, when he came 124th. In 2005 he moved back up the rankings to 78th and in 2006 he won his first PGA Tour title at the Verizon Heritage.
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Regarded as the hottest young talent in Australian golf since Greg Norman, Aaron Baddeley had long yearned to ply his craft on the toughest tour of them all - the US PGA Tour. After stunning the golf world by wining the Australian Open as an 18 year old Amateur and then defending his title the following year, Baddeley fell on relatively lean times, especially in America where his trade mark confidence strangely deserted him.
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In 2007, Baddeley continued to develop into one of golf's brightest young stars, claiming his second PGA Tour victory at the FBR Open in February. This jumpstarted a career-year in which the 26-year-old Australian notched seven top-10s, finished sixth in the inaugural FedEx Cup and No. 10 on the PGA Tour money list with nearly $3.5 million in earnings. Recognized for his sterling short game, Baddeley's outstanding professional play has been predicted since his teenage years. He burst onto the international golf scene in 1999, by becoming the youngest player (17) to capture the Holden Australian Open. The win established him as one of the most heralded amateurs in history, a standing he validated by defending his title the following year.
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When he was in his late teens Baddeley was seen as one of the most promising talents in world golf. He was the youngest player ever to represent Australia in the Eisenhower Trophy and he won the Holden Australian Open as an amateur in 1999 and retained his title in 2000, by which time he had turned professional. In 2001, he won the Greg Norman Holden International in Australia. He won the PGA Tour of Australasia's Order of Merit in 2000/01. However of the following few years he came to be overshadowed by his Australian contemporary Adam Scott, who is less than a year older than Baddeley but reached the world top 10 in 2005.
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