Gareth Paddison

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Gareth Paddison
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Paddison at the 2008 Omega European Masters
Personal information
Born (1980-05-13) 13 May 1980 (age 44)
Wellington, New Zealand
Height6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Weight163 lb (74 kg; 11.6 st)
Sporting nationalityFlag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand
Career
Turned professional2001
Current tour(s) PGA Tour of Australasia
Former tour(s) European Tour
Asian Tour
Challenge Tour
OneAsia Tour
Charles Tour
Professional wins16
Number of wins by tour
PGA Tour of Australasia4
Challenge Tour1
Other11
Achievements and awards
Charles Tour
Order of Merit winner 		2016–17

Gareth Paddison (born 13 May 1980) is a New Zealand professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour of Australasia.

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Amateur career

Paddison won the New Zealand Amateur Stroke Play Championship and the Queensland Amateur Championship 1999 and the Canadian Amateur Championship in 2001. He also represented New Zealand at the 2000 Eisenhower Trophy.

Professional career

Paddison turned professional in 2001. He was named the Norman Von Nida Australasian PGA Tour Rookie of the Year in 2002 after he won the Scenic Circle Hotels Dunedin Classic. He played on the Challenge Tour from 2002 to 2007. In 2002 he finished in third at the Izki Challenge de España. In 2004 he won the Victorian Open on the Von Nida Tour while finishing in a tie for second at the Skandia PGA Open on the Challenge Tour. He picked up his first win on the Challenge Tour in 2007 at the Open des Volcans. He earned his European Tour card for 2008 by going through qualifying school but he wasn't able to retain his card even though he recorded five top-25 finishes, and returned to the Challenge tour for 2009.

From 2010 Paddison played mostly on the PGA Tour of Australasia and the OneAsia tour. He won three tier-2 events on the Australasian Tour, the Queensland PGA Championship in 2011 and the Victorian PGA Championship in 2012 and 2014. His best finish on the OneAsia tour was when he was a runner-up in the 2015 GS Caltex Maekyung Open in Korea. He played on the Asian Tour in 2018, having secured a place through Q-school. [1] He has won 5 times on the Charles Tour and won the Fiji Open in 2016.

Personal life

His father, Garry, played for the New Zealand national football team in the 1970s.

Amateur wins

Professional wins (16)

PGA Tour of Australasia wins (4)

No.DateTournamentWinning scoreMargin of
victory		Runner(s)-up
124 Mar 2002 Scenic Circle Hotels Dunedin Classic −17 (66-69-68-64=267)3 strokes Flag of Australia (converted).svg Brad Andrews
227 Feb 2011 Cellarbrations Queensland PGA Championship −18 (67-67-62-66=262)2 strokes Flag of Australia (converted).svg Terry Pilkadaris, Flag of Australia (converted).svg Kieran Pratt
319 Feb 2012 Adroit Insurance Group Victorian PGA Championship −7 (67-69-67-74=277)1 stroke Flag of Australia (converted).svg Leighton Lyle
49 Feb 2014 Lexus of Blackburn Victorian PGA Championship (2)−16 (67-68-66-71=272)1 stroke Flag of New Zealand.svg Michael Hendry

Challenge Tour wins (1)

No.DateTournamentWinning scoreMargin of
victory		Runner-up
18 Jul 2007 AGF-Allianz Open des Volcans – Challenge de France −11 (70-69-68-66=273)6 strokes Flag of Sweden.svg Leif Westerberg

Von Nida Tour wins (1)

No.DateTournamentWinning scoreMargin of
victory		Runners-up
125 Jan 2004 Mitsubishi Motors Victorian Open −12 (71-66-67=204)5 strokes Flag of Australia (converted).svg Richard Green, Flag of Australia (converted).svg Paul Sheehan

Charles Tour wins (5)

No.DateTournamentWinning scoreMargin of
victory		Runner(s)-up
119 Sep 2010 Wairakei Open−8 (74-67-67-72=280)5 strokes Flag of New Zealand.svg James Betts (a), Flag of New Zealand.svg Jared Pender
226 Apr 2015 Barfoot and Thompson Akarana Open−16 (66-66-66-66=264)4 strokes Flag of New Zealand.svg Joshua Munn (a)
32 Apr 2017 Barfoot and Thompson Akarana Open (2)−18 (66-64-64-68=262)Playoff Flag of New Zealand.svg Michael Hendry
49 Apr 2017Autex Muriwai Open−15 (64-69-69-71=273)5 strokes Flag of New Zealand.svg Mark Brown
515 Apr 2018 Autex Muriwai Open (2)−12 (70-67-71-68=276)Playoff Flag of New Zealand.svg James Anstiss

Other wins (5)

Team appearances

Amateur

Professional

See also

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References

  1. ↑ "Ben Campbell and Gareth Paddison secure Asian Tour Cards for 2018". New Zealand Golf. 15 January 2018.
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