Jonathan Byrd (golfer)

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Jonathan Byrd
— Golfer —
Personal information
Full name	Jonathan Currie Byrd
Born	(1978-01-27) January 27, 1978 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 Byrd (m. 2002)
Children	Jackson, Caroline, Kate
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
Web.com 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.

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 Web.com 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

1999 Northeast Amateur

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

Buy.com 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

Results in major championships

Tournament	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012
Masters Tournament	T8	CUT	DNP	DNP	DNP	CUT	DNP	DNP	CUT	T27
U.S. Open	T15	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	CUT	DNP	DNP	CUT	T56
The Open Championship	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	T23	DNP	DNP	DNP	CUT	CUT
PGA Championship	CUT	CUT	DNP	T20	CUT	CUT	DNP	DNP	CUT	CUT

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

Summary

Tournament	Top-10	Top-25	Events	Cuts made
Masters Tournament	1	1	5	2
U.S. Open	0	1	4	2
The Open Championship	0	1	3	1
PGA Championship	0	1	7	1
Totals	1	4	19	6

Most consecutive cuts made – 2 (three times)
Longest streak of top-10s – 1

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
2012	0	1,616,789	50
2013	0	428,966	146
Career*	5	16,914,303	59

* As of the 2013 season.
** Byrd did not join the PGA Tour until 2002 so he was not ranked on the money list until then.

U.S. national team appearances

Amateur

Palmer Cup: 1999 (winners), 2000
Walker Cup: 1999

Equipment

Irons – Mizuno MP62
Fairway – Mizuno MX-700 Fairway Wood 15°
Utility – Mizuno MX-700 Hybrid 17°
Wedges – Mizuno MPT Series Wedge 56° and 60°

References

↑ "Plus: Golf; Woods Is Named Player of the Year". The New York Times. January 7, 2003. Retrieved January 11, 2011.
↑ "Jonathan Byrd – Season results". PGA Tour. Retrieved October 25, 2013.
↑ "Father of PGA Tour winner Byrd dies". USA Today. Associated Press. July 7, 2009. Retrieved October 25, 2013.
↑ "Hole-in-one gives Jonathan Byrd win". ESPN. Associated Press. October 25, 2010. Retrieved October 25, 2013.
↑ "Jonathan Byrd wins PGA Tour opener". ESPN. Associated Press. January 10, 2011. Retrieved January 10, 2011.

External links

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Jonathan Byrd at the PGA Tour official site
Jonathan Byrd at the Official World Golf Ranking official site
Player Bio: Clemson Official Athletic site

v t e PGA Tour Rookies of the Year

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‡ 2012 John Huh 2013 Jordan Spieth

‡ 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

Persondata
Name	Byrd, Jonathan
Alternative names	Byrd, Jonathan Currie
Short description	Professional golfer
Date of birth	January 27, 1978
Place of birth	Anderson, South Carolina
Date of death
Place of death

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