Aaron Baddeley
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|+<big> '''Aaron Baddeley'''</big>
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|colspan="2" align="center"|[[Image:AaronBaddeleyATTNational3.jpg|100px]]
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! colspan="2" bgcolor="#4682B4" | '''Personal Information'''
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| '''Birth''' || {{birth date and age|1981|3|17}} <br>[[Lebanon, New Hampshire]], [[United States|U.S.]]
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| '''Height''' || 6 [[Foot (unit of length)|ft]] 1 [[Inch|in]] (1.85 [[Metre|m]])
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| '''Weight''' || 182 [[Pound (mass)|lb]] (83 [[Kilogram|kg]])
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| '''Nationality''' || {{AUS}}
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| '''Residence''' || [[Scottsdale, Arizona]]
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| '''College''' || None
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! colspan="2" bgcolor="E2725B" | Career
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| '''Turned Pro''' || 2000
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| '''Current tour''' || [[PGA Tour]]
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| '''Professional wins''' || 6 (PGA Tour: 2, PGA Tour of Australasia: 4)
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! colspan="2" bgcolor="#ACE1AF" | Best Results in Major Championships
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| [[The Masters|Masters]]
| T52: 2007
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| [[U.S. Open (golf)|U.S. Open]]
| T13: 2007
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| [[The Open Championship|British Open]]
| CUT: 2001, 2004, 2006, 2007
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| [[PGA Championship]]
| T55: 2006
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! colspan="2" bgcolor="#D8BFD8" | Awards
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| [[PGA Tour of Australasia|PGA Tour of Australasia<br>Order of Merit Winner]]
| 2000, 2001
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'''Aaron John Baddeley''' (born [[17 March]] [[1981]]) is an [[United States|American]]-[[Australian]] professional [[golf]]er. He was born in [[Lebanon, New Hampshire]], USA and now plays on the U.S.-based [[PGA Tour]], has joint U.S. and Australian citizenship and was raised in Australia from the age of two. He represents Australia in professional golf.
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 [[Official World Golf Rankings|world top 10]] in 2005.
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]].
He won his second PGA Tour tournament in early 2007 and reached the top 50 of the world rankings.<ref>[http://www.officialworldgolfranking.com/news/fullstory.sps?iNewsid=401070&itype=&iCategoryID=0 Official World Golf Ranking site, Week 5 2007 news release]</ref> By September he had entered the top 20.
He was the leader after the third round of the [[2007 U.S. Open Golf Championship|107th U.S. Open ]] at [[Oakmont Country Club]] on June 16th, 2007 with a two over par score of 212 (72-70-70). He finished with an 80 and ended T-13.
==Amateur wins==
''this list may be incomplete''
*1999 [[Riversdale Cup]]
==Professional wins (6)==
===PGA Tour wins (2)===
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#eeeeee"
|'''No.'''
|'''Date'''
|'''Tournament'''
|'''Winning Score'''
|'''Margin of Victory'''
|'''Runner up'''
|-
|1.
|[[April 16|Apr. 16]], [[2006]]
|[[Verizon Heritage]]
|<nowiki>-15 (66-67-66-70=269)</nowiki>
|1 stroke
|{{flagicon|USA}} [[Jim Furyk]]
|-
|2.
|[[February 4|Feb. 4]], [[2007]]
|[[FBR Open]]
|<nowiki>-21 (65-70-64-64=263)</nowiki>
|1 stroke
|{{flagicon|USA}} [[John Rollins (golfer)|John Rollins]]
|}
'''<big>PGA Tour playoff record (0-1)</big>'''
{| class="wikitable"
|- bgcolor="#eeeeee"
|'''No.'''
|'''Year'''
|'''Tournament'''
|'''Opponent'''
|'''Result'''
|-bgcolor="F08080"
|1.
|2003
|[[Sony Open in Hawaii]]
|[[Ernie Els]]
|Lost to birdie on second hole
|}
===PGA Tour of Australasia wins (4)===
*1999 [[Holden Australian Open]] (as an amateur)
*2000 [[Holden Australian Open]]
*2001 [[Greg Norman Holden International]] (co-sanctioned with the [[European Tour]])
*2007 [[Mastercard Masters]] (co-sanctioned with the [[European Tour]])
==Results in major championships==
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|- bgcolor="#eeeeee"
!align="left"|Tournament
!2000
!2001
!2002
!2003
!2004
!2005
!2006
!2007
!2008
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|[[The Masters Tournament|The Masters]]
|align="center"|CUT
|align="center"|CUT
|align="center"|DNP
|align="center"|DNP
|align="center"|DNP
|align="center"|DNP
|align="center"|DNP
|align="center"|T52
|align="center"|CUT
|-
|[[U.S. Open (golf)|U.S. Open]]
|align="center"|CUT
|align="center"|DNP
|align="center"|DNP
|align="center"|DNP
|align="center"|CUT
|align="center"|DNP
|align="center"|DNP
|align="center"|T13
|align="center"|T29
|-
|[[The Open Championship]]
|align="center"|DNP
|align="center"|CUT
|align="center"|DNP
|align="center"|DNP
|align="center"|CUT
|align="center"|DNP
|align="center"|CUT
|align="center"|CUT
|
|-
|[[PGA Championship]]
|align="center"|DNP
|align="center"|DNP
|align="center"|DNP
|align="center"|T57
|align="center"|DNP
|align="center"|DNP
|align="center"|T55
|align="center"|CUT
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|}
DNP = Did not play<br>
CUT = missed the half-way cut<br>
"T" = tied<br>
Green background for wins. Yellow background for top-10
==PGA Tour career summary==
{|class=wikitable style="text-align:center"
!Year !! Wins (Majors) !! Earnings ([[United States dollar|$]]) !! Rank
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| 2001 || 0 || 19,435 || -
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| 2002 || 0 || 16,380 || -
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| 2003 || 0 || 989,168 || 73
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| 2004 || 0 || 632,876 || 123
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| 2005 || 0 || 1,006,006 || 78
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| 2006 || 1 || 1,516,513 || 55
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| 2007 || 1 || 3,441,119 || 10
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| '''Career*''' || '''2''' || '''7,621,496''' || [http://www.pgatour.com/r/stats/current/110.html '''103''']
|}
''* Through end of the 2007 season.''<br>
''** Baddeley did not join the PGA Tour until 2003 so he was not ranked on the money list until then and his earnings before 2003 are not counted towards his career total.''
==Personal Life==
Baddeley is a committed [[Christianity|Christian]] and has confessed that it was his faith that prevented him giving up professional golf on numerous occasions. Baddeley's wife Richelle, whom he married on [[Easter]] Sunday 2005 sums up Baddeley's faith in God, saying: "It never faltered. He never asked, 'What are you trying to teach me? I want you to be the man you want me to be. I will go through these [bad] times if that is Your will'." Richelle has also been been pivotal to Baddeley's resurgence. "I had to learn the balance of letting him be alone when he comes home sometimes upset. It's sheer frustration from him. He's played his best, and it just hasn't happened," she said. <ref>[http://www.smh.com.au/news/golf/thank-god-for-that-says-aaron/2006/04/17/1145126056140.html Thank God for that, says Aaron - Golf - Sport - smh.com.au<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
==References==
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==External links==
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*[http://www.badds.com/ Official website]
*[http://www.pga.org.au/default.aspx?s=pgatourplayerprofiledisplay&pid=384 Profile on the PGA Tour of Australasia's official site]
*[http://www.pgatour.com/players/02/23/71 Profile on the PGA Tour's official site]
*[http://www.officialworldgolfranking.com/players/bio.sps?ID=6252 Results in ranking events for the last two years from the Official World Golf Ranking site]
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