Aaron Baddeley's Birdie For The Ages

I mistakenly let the Buzzfeed-style headlines scared me off from reading about Aaron Baddeley's round one birdie in the Valero Texas Open. That was a mistake.

Because as Alex Myers explains, this one really is an all-timer.

On the drivable par-4 17th (playing 336 yards to the pin today), Baddeley yanked his tee shot into the woods. But after taking an unplayable lie, he re-teed and miraculously holed his next shot. Again, from 336 yards. In other words, this is NOT a misprint:

Baddeley hit driver on both shots, but choked down on his second attempt with the hole playing downwind. The improbable result put him just one shot behind Charley Hoffman after the first round.

"I just thought I'd just hit it straight and so I hit it and started walking and then heard the crowd going nuts," Baddeley said. "I was like, wait, I just made birdie."

Meanwhile 31 of 141 players shot 80 or higher. Jim McCabe attempts to dissect what happened.