Jonathan Currie Byrd (born in January 27, 1978) is an
AmericanThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
professional
golfGolf is a precision club-and-ball sport, in which competing players , using many types of clubs, attempt to hit balls into each hole on a golf course while employing the fewest number of strokes. Golf is one of the few ball games that does not require a standardized playing area...
er.
Byrd was born in
Anderson, South CarolinaAnderson is a city in and the county seat of Anderson County, South Carolina, United States. The population was 25,514 at the 2000 census, and the city was the center of an urbanized area of 70,530...
. He attended
Clemson UniversityClemson University is a public, coeducational, land-grant, research university located in Clemson, South Carolina, United States.Founded in 1889, the University is academically divided into five colleges: Agriculture, Forestry and Life Sciences; Architecture, Arts and Humanities; Business and...
between 1997 and 2000. During his Clemson career, Byrd was the first four-time First Team All-ACC player in Clemson history, was named a First Team All-America in 1999, and represented the United States on the
Walker CupThe Walker Cup is a golf trophy contested biennially in odd numbered years between teams comprising the leading amateur golfers of the United States and Great Britain and Ireland...
team in 1999.
Byrd turned professional in 2000 and played on the Buy.Com Tour (now
Nationwide TourThe Nationwide Tour is the developmental tour for the U.S.-based PGA Tour, and features professional golfers who have either failed to score well enough at that level's Qualifying School to earn their PGA Tour card, or who have done so but then failed to win enough money to stay at that level...
), winning the BUY.COM Charity Pro-Am at The Cliffs and finishing eighth on the money list.
In his first season on the
PGA TourThe PGA Tour is an organization that operates the main professional golf tours in the United States. It is headquartered in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, a suburb of Jacksonville...
in 2002, Byrd won the
Buick ChallengeThe Buick Challenge was a golf tournament on the PGA Tour from 1970 to 2002. It was played at the Callaway Gardens Resort , Pine Mountain, Georgia from 1991 to 2002 and at the Green Island Country Club in Columbus, Georgia from 1970 to 1990...
and was named PGA Tour Rookie of the Year.
Jonathan Currie Byrd (born in January 27, 1978) is an
AmericanThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
professional
golfGolf is a precision club-and-ball sport, in which competing players , using many types of clubs, attempt to hit balls into each hole on a golf course while employing the fewest number of strokes. Golf is one of the few ball games that does not require a standardized playing area...
er.
Byrd was born in
Anderson, South CarolinaAnderson is a city in and the county seat of Anderson County, South Carolina, United States. The population was 25,514 at the 2000 census, and the city was the center of an urbanized area of 70,530...
. He attended
Clemson UniversityClemson University is a public, coeducational, land-grant, research university located in Clemson, South Carolina, United States.Founded in 1889, the University is academically divided into five colleges: Agriculture, Forestry and Life Sciences; Architecture, Arts and Humanities; Business and...
between 1997 and 2000. During his Clemson career, Byrd was the first four-time First Team All-ACC player in Clemson history, was named a First Team All-America in 1999, and represented the United States on the
Walker CupThe Walker Cup is a golf trophy contested biennially in odd numbered years between teams comprising the leading amateur golfers of the United States and Great Britain and Ireland...
team in 1999.
Byrd turned professional in 2000 and played on the Buy.Com Tour (now
Nationwide TourThe Nationwide Tour is the developmental tour for the U.S.-based PGA Tour, and features professional golfers who have either failed to score well enough at that level's Qualifying School to earn their PGA Tour card, or who have done so but then failed to win enough money to stay at that level...
), winning the BUY.COM Charity Pro-Am at The Cliffs and finishing eighth on the money list.
In his first season on the
PGA TourThe PGA Tour is an organization that operates the main professional golf tours in the United States. It is headquartered in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, a suburb of Jacksonville...
in 2002, Byrd won the
Buick ChallengeThe Buick Challenge was a golf tournament on the PGA Tour from 1970 to 2002. It was played at the Callaway Gardens Resort , Pine Mountain, Georgia from 1991 to 2002 and at the Green Island Country Club in Columbus, Georgia from 1970 to 1990...
and was named PGA Tour Rookie of the Year. Byrd won the
B.C. OpenThe Dick's Sporting Goods Open is a Champions Tour golf tournament which debuted in July 2007 and supplanted the B.C. Open, a now-defunct PGA Tour event, that was held annually from 1971 to 2006....
in 2004 and the
John Deere ClassicThe John Deere Classic is an American professional golf event which is on the PGA Tour schedule. It is played annually in July, the week before the British Open Championship, at the TPC at Deere Run in Silvis, Illinois...
in 2007.
Byrd had an average season in 2008 with two top-10s and a little over $1,000,000 in earnings. Thus far in 2009, his best finish on the was at the
Memorial TournamentThe Memorial Tournament is a PGA Tour golf tournament which is closely associated with Jack Nicklaus. It is played on a Nicklaus-designed course at Muirfield Village Golf Club in Dublin, Ohio, a suburb of Nicklaus' home town of Columbus. The golf course passes through a large neighborhood called...
, where he was joint second round leader with
Jim FurykJames Michael Furyk is an American professional golfer, known for consistently playing at the top level and for a visibly unconventional, looping golf swing. Due to his ability to perform at such a high level despite that swing, his devoted fan base has given him the nickname "The Grinder"...
. Byrd would go on to finish T3.
On July 7, 2009, Byrd 's father, James, died aged 65 after a long struggle with a cancerous tumor in his brain. The death of his father caused Byrd to withdraw from the
John Deere ClassicThe John Deere Classic is an American professional golf event which is on the PGA Tour schedule. It is played annually in July, the week before the British Open Championship, at the TPC at Deere Run in Silvis, Illinois...
, an event he had won previously in 2007.
PGA Tour wins (3)
| No. |
Date |
Tournament |
Winning Score |
Margin of
Victory |
Runner(s)-up |
| 1 |
Aug 11, 2002 The 2002 PGA Tour season was played from January 3 to November 4. The season consisted of 49 official money events. Tiger Woods won the most tournaments, five, and there were 18 first-time winners. The tournament results, leaders, and award winners are listed below.-Tournament results:The following...
|
Buick Challenge The Buick Challenge was a golf tournament on the PGA Tour from 1970 to 2002. It was played at the Callaway Gardens Resort , Pine Mountain, Georgia from 1991 to 2002 and at the Green Island Country Club in Columbus, Georgia from 1970 to 1990...
|
-17 (67-63-71-70=271) |
4 strokes |
USA Fred FunkFrederick Funk is an American professional golfer.Funk was born in Takoma Park, Maryland. He graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1980 with a degree in law enforcement...
, USA Brian GayJoseph Brian Gay is an American professional golfer, currently playing on the PGA Tour.A military brat, Gay was born in Fort Worth, Texas, but was raised primarily at Fort Rucker, Alabama, where his father was an NCO in the U.S. Army, involved in flight operations...
,
USA Mark O'MearaMark Francis O'Meara is an American professional golfer who was a prolific tournament winner on the PGA Tour and around the world from the mid 1980s to the late 1990s...
, MEX Esteban ToledoEsteban Toledo is a Mexican professional golfer, who was a member of the PGA Tour in 1994 and 1998-2004 and has also spent many years playing on the second tier Nationwide Tour....
|
| 2 |
Jul 18, 2004 The 2004 PGA Tour season was played from January 8 to November 7. The season consisted of 48 official money events. Vijay Singh won the most tournaments, nine, and there were 10 first-time winners. The tournament results, leaders, and award winners are listed below.-Tournament results:The following...
|
B.C. Open The Dick's Sporting Goods Open is a Champions Tour golf tournament which debuted in July 2007 and supplanted the B.C. Open, a now-defunct PGA Tour event, that was held annually from 1971 to 2006....
|
-20 (67-65-68-68=268) |
1 stroke |
USA Ted Purdy Theodore Townsend Purdy is an American professional golfer.Purdy was born in Phoenix, Arizona. He graduated from Brophy College Preparatory in 1992. He went to the University of Arizona as a finance major and was inducted into its Sports Hall of Fame in 2005. He has won one PGA Tour tournament,...
|
| 3 |
Jul 15, 2007 The 2007 PGA Tour season ran from January 4, 2007 to November 4, 2007. The season consisted of 47 official money events. This included four major championships and three World Golf Championships, which are also sanctioned by the European Tour. There were also five unofficial events played in...
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John Deere Classic The John Deere Classic is an American professional golf event which is on the PGA Tour schedule. It is played annually in July, the week before the British Open Championship, at the TPC at Deere Run in Silvis, Illinois...
|
-18 (67-68-65-66=266) |
1 stroke |
ZAF Tim Clark Timothy Henry Clark is a South African professional golfer.Clark was born in Durban, South Africa. He took up golf at the age of three and was taught to play by his father. He attended North Carolina State University in the United States, where he had a successful college golf career...
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PGA Tour career summary
| Year | Wins (Majors) | Earnings ($ The United States dollar is the unit of currency of the United States. The U.S. dollar is normally abbreviated as the dollar sign, $, or as USD or US$ to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies and from others that use the $ symbol. It is divided into 100 cents .The U.S...
) | 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 |
| Career* |
3 |
9,077,876 |
93 |
* Through end of the 2008 season.
** Byrd did not join the PGA Tour until 2002 so he was not ranked on the money list until then and his earnings before 2002 are not counted towards his career total.
Results in major championships
| Tournament | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 |
|---|
The MastersThe Masters Tournament, also known as The Masters, or The U.S. Masters outside of the United States, is one of the four major championships in professional golf. Scheduled for the first full week of April, it is the first of the majors to be played each year...
|
DNP |
T8 |
CUT |
DNP |
DNP |
DNP |
CUT |
U.S. OpenThe United States Open Championship, commonly known as the U.S. Open, is the annual open golf tournament of the United States. It is the second of the four major championships in golf and is on the official schedule of both the PGA Tour and the European Tour...
|
DNP |
T15 |
DNP |
DNP |
DNP |
DNP |
CUT |
British OpenThe Open Championship, or simply The Open , is the oldest of the four major championships in professional golf. It is the only major held outside the USA and is administered by the R&A, which is the governing body of golf outside the USA and Mexico...
|
DNP |
DNP |
DNP |
DNP |
DNP |
T23 |
DNP |
PGA ChampionshipThe PGA Championship is an annual golf tournament conducted by the PGA of America as part of the PGA Tour...
|
DNP |
CUT |
CUT |
DNP |
T20 |
CUT |
CUT |
DNP = did not play
CUT = missed the half way cut
"T" indicates a tie for a place.
Green background for wins. Yellow background for top-10.
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