PGA Tour Week 7: Aaron Baddeley Is Back With a Win at Riviera CC

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Published: February 23, 2011

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Move over 20-somethings with three or more PGA Tour wins…there's an "old guy" that joined the club on Sunday!

Aaron Baddeley, only 25 days short of his 30th birthday, won the Northern Trust Open at the famed Riviera CC for his third PGA TOUR victory.

There is a "young-gun" winning six-some now—Camilo Villegas, Hunter Mahan, Sean O'Hair, Dustin Johnson, Anthony Kim, and Baddeley. Johnson is the only 20-something with four wins to his name.

It has been four seasons since Baddeley's last win at the 2007 FBR Open plus another year to wind the clock back to his maiden win at the Verizon Heritage.

The last of his four Australian tour wins also came in 2007.

Baddeley is back winning by two strokes after shooting all four rounds in the 60s.

The Aussie finished in the Top-10 for the second straight week after a T6 last week at the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, marking the first time he has back-to-back top 10s since August 2007.

Baddeley had dropped to World Number 274 at the end of 2010. With this win he jumps from No. 224 to 73.

It was a challenging Sunday for the child of destiny, who came out on tour with so much promise and expectations in 2000.

Playing partner and gallery favorite, Fred Couples started the final round with three birdies though in the end would suffer a Sunday 73 to finish T7.

Baddeley certainly took notice but was not rattled.

"I was still just trying to focus on my game and just try to do what I needed to do," Baddeley said. "I was still right there, I was still only one back. It wasn't like I was three back. For me it was just trying to keep doing what I was doing."

"I enjoy playing with Freddie. He's really a great bloke."


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