Nearly 25 years have passed since Australia was convinced its own Tiger Woods was found. Aaron Baddeley, an 18-year-old from Melbourne, won the Australian Open in 1999, leaving big-name players like Norman, Faldo, and Montgomerie in his wake. Many believed Baddeley had the potential to be the Australian version of Tiger Woods.
Nearly 25 years have passed since Australia was convinced its own Tiger Woods was found. Those eyes of laser-focus belonged to an 18-year-old from Melbourne’s outer suburbs who – unlike Woods – was fresh from his Year 12 exams and not his latest PGA Tour win. In late 1999, Aaron Baddeley put down his pen, picked up his club, and won this nation’s most coveted golf title, the Australia n Open, by two shots over Norman. Norman was no spent force either.
In the same year, Norman shared the lead at the Masters with only five holes to play, eventually fading out to lose to Jose Maria Olazabal in his final Augusta torture. At Royal Sydney in November, Baddeley became the first amateur to lift the Stonehaven Cup since 1960, leaving not only Norman, but also six-time major winner Nick Faldo, and then-world No.3 Colin Montgomerie, in his wake. “Baddeley has the potential to be the Australian version of Tiger Woods,” Ian Baker-Finch said of the prodigy. But it wasn’t just the big-name Australians who took notice of the groundbreaking victor
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