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Wrapup: Despite heartbreaker, it's good to be Badds

By David Lefort
ESPN.com

Sunday, January 19, 2003

One agonizing inch. That's how close 21-year-old Aaron Baddeley came to sending the Sony Open to a third playoff hole. It's how much surface Baddeley needed for another shot at his first PGA Tour victory in his first event as a card-carrying member. It's how close the upstart phenom came to making us throw down our remotes, shake our heads and declare: "This kid's for real." As it stands, Baddeley's coming-out party will be better remembered for the guy who crashed it: Ernie Els. Els drai ...

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