Victorian golfer Aaron Baddeley won the Australian Masters, defeating Sweden's Daniel Chopra in their fourth play-off hole at Huntingdale in Melbourne on Sunday.

The pair were tied at 13 under par at the end of 72 holes, then each parred the 18th hole three more times in sudden death play-offs, before the tournament was settled on the fourth.

Fellow Victorian Stuart Appleby finished in outright third place on 11 under par.

The play-off ended when Chopra missed a putt of just under two metres to bogey the deciding hole, after Baddeley had holed a par putt of about three metres.

That came after Baddeley had found trouble when his tee shot went well right of the fairway and he had to hit his second from under a tree, before chipping his third onto the green.

Chopra had a more straightforward route to the green, before three-putting.

It was something of a reversal of roles, as the Swede had been the one to find trouble off the tee, before holding his nerve to recover, on their previous trips down the 18th.

On the first play-off hole, Chopra hooked his tee shot into a grove of trees, but somehow found a gap to find the green with his second shot.

Baddeley, on the other hand, played solid golf and had easy par putts on each of the first three play-off holes, while Chopra had to make clutch putts on each occasion to keep the event alive.

Earlier, Chopra had led the tournament on 14 under par with two holes to play, with Appleby in second spot on 13 under and Baddeley on 12 under.

But Appleby, two groups ahead of Chopra, double-bogeyed the 18th to blow his chance.

Baddeley made an excellent birdie on the difficult par four 17th, before Chopra made a bogey on the same hole.

Both players then made par on the last to ensure the tournament went into the play-off, the fifth play-off in six years at the Masters.

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