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Home > Golf > PGA Tour Players > Rod Pampling
Rod Pampling
Golf is an outdoor sport where player as an individual or from varied teams strike a ball targeting a hole using various clubs. PGA stands for Professional Golfers' Association Tour. The PGA Tour is an organization headquartered in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, USA that operates the USA's main professional golf Tours. The PGA Tour since 1968 has been completely separated from the Professional Golfers' Association of America, PGA of America, which is now primarily an association of club professionals.
Rod Pampling was born on September 23, 1969 in Radcliff, Queensland, Australia. His height is 5 foot 10 inches and weight 175 pounds, and turned professional 1994. Best PGA Tour Finishes are in 2004 The International, in 2006 Bay Hill Invitational Presented by MasterCard and his International Victories in 1999 Canon Challenge.
His recent PGA Tour Highlights, he shared third-round lead at the Buick Invitational with Sergio Garcia at 11-under 205. Final round 4-over 76 left him three strokes shy of a three-man playoff won by Tiger Woods and picked up his second career Tour win with a one-stroke victory over Greg Owen at the Bay Hill Invitational presented by MasterCard. He came into final round with a four-stroke lead over three players, including Owen, whom he battled down the stretch. Tied at 14-under after Pampling double bogeyed the par-4 13th hole.
In Career Highlights 2004, he made 22 cuts in 26 Tour starts and earned a career-high $173772 recorded his first PGA Tour victory in his 81st career start at The International. He made a 21-foot eagle putt from the fringe on the par-5, 71st hole, collecting five points in the Tournament's Modified Stable ford scoring system to move into a two-point lead over Alex Cejka.
He was one of six Australians to win on the PGA Tour in 2004, joining Stuart Appleby, Mark Hensby, Adam Scott, Andre Stolz and Craig Parry. His top-40 finish on the final money list earned his first invitation to the Masters in 2005. In 2003, he recorded five top-10s and won over $1 million Best finish came late in the season when he overcame a second-round 73 to finish T3 at the Reno-Tahoe Open for 5th top-10 of the season. He rebounded with rounds of 67-68 on the weekend and earned $174,000 to exceed $1 million in earnings on the season for the first time in his career.
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