Aaron Baddeley became the fourth Australian to win on the PGA tour this year, following in the footsteps of Stuart Appleby, Geoff Ogilvy, and Rod Pampling. Baddeley played some pretty gutsy shots on the back 9 to hold off Jim Furyk, one of the best players on tour, by one shot.

After a promising amateur and professional career in Australia (he won the Australian Open as an amateur and then repeated next year as a professional), he had a disappointing start to his PGA career, only just managing to hold on to his tour card in one year. Today he fulfilled his potential by winning his first career PGA title and close to $1 million in prize money.

Let’s hope this is the breakthrough that Baddeley needed to help him realise his potential. The guy has a lot of talent and up until now has struggled dealing with the expectations that were placed on him. It would be great if his win today is the start of many more wins, as well as a major title or two.

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