Jonathan Currie Byrd (born January 27, 1978) is an American
professional golfer
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. He was the 2002
PGA Tour Rookie of the Year
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, and has won five times on the
PGA Tour
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.
Biography
Byrd was born in
Anderson, South Carolina
Anderson is a city in and the county seat of Anderson County, South Carolina, United States. The population was 28,106 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, and the city was the center of an urbanized area of 75,702. It is one of the prin ...
. He attended
Clemson University
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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
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team in 1999.
Byrd turned professional in 2000 and played on the Buy.Com Tour (now
Web.com Tour
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), winning the
Buy.com Charity Pro-Am at The Cliffs
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From 1992 to 2000, the event was pl ...
and finishing eighth on the money list.
In his first season on the
PGA Tour
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in 2002, Byrd won the
Buick Challenge and was named
PGA Tour Rookie of the Year
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. Byrd won the
B.C. Open
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in 2004 and the
John Deere Classic in 2007.
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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
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, where he was joint second round leader with
Jim Furyk
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. Byrd would go on to finish T3.
On July 7, 2009, Byrd 's father, James, died aged 65 after a long struggle with
brain cancer
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. 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
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and
Cameron Percy
Cameron Blair Percy (born 5 May 1974) is an Australian professional golfer.
Percy was born in Chelsea, Victoria and turned professional in 1998. He joined the second-tier Nationwide Tour (now known as the Korn Ferry Tour) in 2005, but enjoyed ...
in a sudden-death playoff at the
Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospitals for Children Open
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for his fourth
PGA Tour
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title. Byrd made a
hole-in-one
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on the fourth hole of the playoff, the par-3 17th, to win the championship. On January 9, 2011, Byrd defeated
Robert Garrigus
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on the second hole of a playoff to win the PGA Tour season opener the
Hyundai Tournament of Champions
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.
On October 2, 2017, Byrd won the 2017
Web.com Tour Championship by four strokes, securing his full PGA Tour card for the first time since 2014.
Amateur wins
''this list may be incomplete''
*1999
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Professional wins (7)
PGA Tour wins (5)
PGA Tour playoff record (2–1)
Web.com Tour wins (2)
Results in major championships
CUT = missed the half way cut
"T" indicates a tie for a place.
Summary
*Most consecutive cuts made – 2 (three times)
*Longest streak of top-10s – 1
Results in The Players Championship
CUT = missed the halfway cut
"T" indicates a tie for a place
Results in World Golf Championships
QF, R16, R32, R64 = Round in which player lost in match play
"T" = Tied
Note that the HSBC Champions did not become a WGC event until 2009.
PGA Tour career summary
''* As of the 2020 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
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:
1999
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(winners),
2000
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*
Walker Cup
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:
1999
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Professional
*
Wendy's 3-Tour Challenge The Wendy's 3-Tour Challenge was an unofficial golf event held in November at the Rio Secco Golf Club in Henderson, Nevada. The tournament was a unique stroke play event, and, as the name suggests, pitted three teams, with three members per team, ...
(representing PGA Tour): 2011
See also
*
2001 Buy.com Tour graduates
*
2017 Web.com Tour Finals graduates
References
External links
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Player Bio: Clemson Official Athletic site
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American male golfers
Clemson Tigers men's golfers
PGA Tour golfers
Korn Ferry Tour graduates
Golfers from South Carolina
People from Anderson, South Carolina
1978 births
Living people