Aaron Baddeley hits hole-in-one at Texas Open, but cards a birdie after taking unplayable lie on first tee shot
Aaron Baddeley hits hole-in-one at Texas Open, but cards a birdie after taking unplayable lie on first tee shot, This hole-in-one is for the birdies.
Aaron Baddeley holed out on the par-4 17th at Thursday’s Texas Open, but the Australian golfer carded a birdie because the eagle actually came on his second shot.
Baddeley’s first tee-shot went wide of the green, landing in the rough to the left, so the 34-year-old took an unplayable lie — a two-stroke penalty — and teed off again.
His second shot found the bottom of the cup — from 336 yards out, no less — but his feat went down as a birdie on the score card.
“That was crazy,” Baddeley told The Associated Press. “I hit it, started walking, and the crowd starts going nuts. So, I’m ‘Wait. I just made birdie.’ It rolls up and goes in.”Had he aced his first shot, it would have been just the second hole-in-one on a par-4 in PGA Tour history and the first since Andrew McGee’s in 2001.
“I hit the second one, man, why didn’t I do that the first time,” Baddeley, who hit a cut driver on the shot, joked afterwards.
Baddeley was second after the first round, shooting a 4-under a 68.
Aaron Baddeley holed out on the par-4 17th at Thursday’s Texas Open, but the Australian golfer carded a birdie because the eagle actually came on his second shot.
Baddeley’s first tee-shot went wide of the green, landing in the rough to the left, so the 34-year-old took an unplayable lie — a two-stroke penalty — and teed off again.
His second shot found the bottom of the cup — from 336 yards out, no less — but his feat went down as a birdie on the score card.
“That was crazy,” Baddeley told The Associated Press. “I hit it, started walking, and the crowd starts going nuts. So, I’m ‘Wait. I just made birdie.’ It rolls up and goes in.”Had he aced his first shot, it would have been just the second hole-in-one on a par-4 in PGA Tour history and the first since Andrew McGee’s in 2001.
“I hit the second one, man, why didn’t I do that the first time,” Baddeley, who hit a cut driver on the shot, joked afterwards.
Baddeley was second after the first round, shooting a 4-under a 68.
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