Gareth Paddison
| Gareth Paddison | |||
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| File:Gareth Paddison.JPG Paddison at the 2008 Omega European Masters | |||
| Personal information | |||
| Born | 13 May 1980 | ||
| Height | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) | ||
| Weight | 163 lb (74 kg; 11.6 st) | ||
| Sporting nationality | File:Flag of New Zealand.svg New Zealand | ||
| Career | |||
| Turned professional | 2001 | ||
| Current tour | PGA Tour of Australasia | ||
| Former tours | European Tour Asian Tour Challenge Tour OneAsia Tour Charles Tour | ||
| Professional wins | 16 | ||
| Number of wins by tour | |||
| PGA Tour of Australasia | 4 | ||
| Challenge Tour | 1 | ||
| Other | 11 | ||
| Achievements and awards | |||
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Gareth Paddison (born 13 May 1980) is a New Zealand professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour of Australasia.
Early life and amateur career
[edit | edit source]In 1980, Paddison was born in Wellington, New Zealand. His father, Garry, played for the New Zealand national football team in the 1970s.
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
[edit | edit source]In 2001, Paddison turned professional. 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. Paddison 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.
Amateur wins
[edit | edit source]- 1999 New Zealand Amateur Stroke Play Championship, Queensland Amateur Championship
- 2000 SBS Invitational
- 2001 Canadian Amateur Championship
Professional wins (16)
[edit | edit source]PGA Tour of Australasia wins (4)
[edit | edit source]| No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | Margin of victory |
Runner(s)-up |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 24 Mar 2002 | Scenic Circle Hotels Dunedin Classic | −17 (66-69-68-64=267) | 3 strokes | Australia Brad Andrews |
| 2 | 27 Feb 2011 | Cellarbrations Queensland PGA Championship | −18 (67-67-62-66=262) | 2 strokes | Australia Terry Pilkadaris, Australia Kieran Pratt |
| 3 | 19 Feb 2012 | Adroit Insurance Group Victorian PGA Championship | −7 (67-69-67-74=277) | 1 stroke | Australia Leighton Lyle |
| 4 | 9 Feb 2014 | Lexus of Blackburn Victorian PGA Championship (2) | −16 (67-68-66-71=272) | 1 stroke | New Zealand Michael Hendry |
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Challenge Tour wins (1)
[edit | edit source]| No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | Margin of victory |
Runner-up |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8 Jul 2007 | AGF-Allianz Open des Volcans – Challenge de France | −11 (70-69-68-66=273) | 6 strokes | Sweden Leif Westerberg |
Von Nida Tour wins (1)
[edit | edit source]| No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | Margin of victory |
Runners-up |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 25 Jan 2004 | Mitsubishi Motors Victorian Open | −12 (71-66-67=204) | 5 strokes | Australia Richard Green, Australia Paul Sheehan |
Charles Tour wins (5)
[edit | edit source]| No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | Margin of victory |
Runner(s)-up |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 19 Sep 2010 | Wairakei Open | −8 (74-67-67-72=280) | 5 strokes | New Zealand James Betts (a), New Zealand Jared Pender |
| 2 | 26 Apr 2015 | Barfoot and Thompson Akarana Open | −16 (66-66-66-66=264) | 4 strokes | New Zealand Joshua Munn (a) |
| 3 | 2 Apr 2017 | Barfoot and Thompson Akarana Open (2) | −18 (66-64-64-68=262) | Playoff | New Zealand Michael Hendry |
| 4 | 9 Apr 2017 | Autex Muriwai Open | −15 (64-69-69-71=273) | 5 strokes | New Zealand Mark Brown |
| 5 | 15 Apr 2018 | Autex Muriwai Open (2) | −12 (70-67-71-68=276) | Playoff | New Zealand James Anstiss |
Other wins (5)
[edit | edit source]- 2000 Waikato Strokeplay Championship[citation needed]
- 2016 Fiji Open
- 2019 Mondiale Omaha Beach Pro-Am
- 2020 Recreational Services Masterton Eketahuna Pro-Am
- 2023 Grove Mitre 10 Pupuke Pro-Am
Team appearances
[edit | edit source]Amateur
- Nomura Cup (representing New Zealand): 1999
- Eisenhower Trophy (representing New Zealand): 2000
- Four Nations Cup (representing New Zealand): 2001
- Southern Cross Cup (representing New Zealand): 2001
Professional
See also
[edit | edit source]References
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Gareth Paddison at the European Tour official site
- Gareth Paddison at the PGA Tour of Australasia official site
- Gareth Paddison at the Asian Tour official site
- Gareth Paddison at the Official World Golf Ranking official site