Aaron Baddeley had a hole-in-one. It happened to come on his second shot.
Baddeley sank his tee shot on the par-4 17th hole at the Valero Texas Open on Thursday, and it would have been the second hole-in-one on a par 4 in PGA history. The caveat: Baddeley's first shot hooked left, and he took an unplayable penalty and went back to the drawing board.
"I was thinking of gripping a 3-wood or hit a cut driver," Baddeley said, "and I don't know, I went with the cut driver. (Instead) I hit a pulled draw in the middle of the trees.
"... The next one I tried to choke up a little bit on the driver and hit it straight. I just said to myself, it was just the wrong shot."
Worked like a charm.
"It was straight downwind," he said, "get it going straight, it will go straight. So I hit - and I hit the second one, man. Why didn't I do that the first time? And it rolls up and goes in."
Baddeley's strange finish left in him in second place after a windy round one at TPC San Antonio. He finished at -4, one shot behind Charley Hoffman.
- With h/t to ESPN