Jonathan Byrd (golfer)

Jonathan Byrd
Personal information
Full name Jonathan Currie Byrd
Born January 27, 1978 (1978-01-27) (age 34)
Anderson, South Carolina
Height 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
Weight 160 lb (73 kg; 11 st)
Nationality  United States
Residence Sea Island, Georgia
Spouse Amanda
Children Jackson (2006), Caroline (2009)
Career
College Clemson University
Turned professional 2000
Current tour(s) PGA Tour (joined 2002)
Professional wins 6
Number of wins by tour
PGA Tour 5
Nationwide Tour 1
Best results in Major Championships
Masters Tournament T8: 2003
U.S. Open T15: 2003
The Open Championship T23: 2007
PGA Championship T20: 2006
Achievements and awards
PGA Tour
Rookie of the Year		 2002

Jonathan Currie Byrd (born January 27, 1978) is an American professional golfer. He was the 2002 PGA Tour Rookie of the Year, and has won five times on the PGA Tour.

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Biography

Byrd was born in Anderson, South Carolina. He attended Clemson University from 1997 to 2000. During his Clemson career, Byrd was the first four-time First Team All-ACC player in Clemson history and was named a First Team All-America in 1999. He represented the United States on the Walker Cup team in 1999.

Byrd turned professional in 2000 and played on the Buy.Com Tour (now Nationwide Tour), winning the BUY.COM Charity Pro-Am at The Cliffs and finishing eighth on the money list.

In his first season on the PGA Tour in 2002, Byrd won the Buick Challenge and was named PGA Tour Rookie of the Year.[1] Byrd won the B.C. Open in 2004 and the John Deere Classic in 2007.

Byrd had an average season in 2008 with two top-10s and a little over $1,000,000 in earnings. His best finish in 2009 was at the Memorial Tournament, where he was joint second round leader with Jim Furyk. Byrd would go on to finish T3.[2]

On July 7, 2009, Byrd 's father, James, died aged 65 after a long struggle with brain cancer.[3] The death of his father caused Byrd to withdraw from the John Deere Classic, an event he won in 2007.

On October 24, 2010, Byrd defeated Martin Laird and Cameron Percy in a sudden-death playoff at the Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospitals for Children Open for his fourth PGA Tour title. Byrd made a hole-in-one on the fourth hole of the playoff, the par-3 17th, to win the championship.[4] On January 9, 2011, Byrd defeated Robert Garrigus on the second hole of a playoff to win the PGA Tour season opener the Hyundai Tournament of Champions.[5]

Amateur wins

this list may be incomplete

Professional wins (6)

PGA Tour wins (5)

No. Date Tournament Winning Score Margin of
Victory		 Runner(s)-up
1 Oct 27, 2002 Buick Challenge -27 (67–66-65-63=261) 1 stroke David Toms
2 Jul 18, 2004 B.C. Open -20 (67–65–68–68=268) 1 stroke Ted Purdy
3 Jul 15, 2007 John Deere Classic -18 (67–68–65–66=266) 1 stroke Tim Clark
4 Oct 24, 2010 Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospitals for Children Open -21 (66–63–66–68=263) Playoff Martin Laird, Cameron Percy
5 Jan 9, 2011 Hyundai Tournament of Champions -24 (69–63–69–67=268) Playoff Robert Garrigus

PGA Tour playoff record (2-1)

No. Year Tournament Opponent(s) Result
1 2010 Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospitals for Children Open Martin Laird, Cameron Percy Won with eagle on fourth extra hole
2 2011 Hyundai Tournament of Champions Robert Garrigus Won with par on second extra hole
3 2011 Wells Fargo Championship Lucas Glover Lost to par on first extra hole

Nationwide Tour wins (1)

No. Date Tournament Winning Score Margin of
Victory		 Runner-up
1 Apr 29, 2001 BUY.COM Charity Pro-Am at The Cliffs -18 (67-70-66-66=269) 1 stroke Brenden Pappas

PGA Tour career summary

Year Wins Earnings ($) Rank
2000 0 14,130 –
2001 0 8,400 –
2002 1 1,462,713 39
2003 0 1,430,538 47
2004 1 1,133,165 70
2005 0 726,023 111
2006 0 1,408,418 63
2007 1 1,854,906 42
2008 0 1,039,584 101
2009 0 1,316,771 67
2010 1 1,534,981 55
2011 1 2,938,920 22
Career* 5 14,868,549 66

* As of the 2011 season.
** Byrd did not join the PGA Tour until 2002 so he was not ranked on the money list until then.

Results in major championships

Tournament 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011
The Masters T8 CUT DNP DNP DNP CUT DNP DNP CUT
U.S. Open T15 DNP DNP DNP DNP CUT DNP DNP CUT
British Open DNP DNP DNP DNP T23 DNP DNP DNP CUT
PGA Championship CUT CUT DNP T20 CUT CUT DNP DNP CUT

DNP = did not play
CUT = missed the half way cut
"T" indicates a tie for a place.
Yellow background for top-10.

U.S. national team appearances

Amateur

Equipment

See also

References

  1. ^ "Plus: Golf; Woods Is Named Player of the Year". The New York Times. January 7, 2003. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9403E1DB133EF934A35752C0A9659C8B63. Retrieved January 11, 2011. 
  2. ^ PGA Tour: Jonathan Byrd and Jim Furyk, leaders at Memorial
  3. ^ Father of PGA Tour winner Byrd dies
  4. ^ Hole-in-one gives Jonathan Byrd win
  5. ^ "Jonathan Byrd wins PGA Tour opener". ESPN. January 10, 2011. http://sports.espn.go.com/golf/news/story?id=6006742. Retrieved January 10, 2011. 

External links

1990 Robert Gamez · 1991 John Daly‡ · 1992 Mark Carnevale · 1993 Vijay Singh† · 1994 Ernie Els‡ · 1995 Woody Austin · 1996 Tiger Woods†∞ · 1997 Stewart Cink† · 1998 Steve Flesch · 1999 Carlos Franco · 2000 Michael Clark II · 2001 Charles Howell III · 2002 Jonathan Byrd · 2003 Ben Curtis‡ · 2004 Todd Hamilton‡ · 2005 Sean O'Hair · 2006 Trevor Immelman† · 2007 Brandt Snedeker · 2008 Andrés Romero · 2009 Marc Leishman · 2010 Rickie Fowler · 2011 Keegan Bradley
‡ indicates won major in the year the golfer won award † indicates won major sometime in their respective golfing careers
∞ indicates won all four majors in the golfers career