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.
Amateur career 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.
Professional career Byrd turned professional in 2000 and played on the Buy.com Tour (now Korn Ferry 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. 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.
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. 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.
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.
Personal life On July 7, 2009, Byrd's father, James, died aged 65 after a long struggle with brain cancer. The death of his father caused Byrd to withdraw from the John Deere Classic, an event he won in 2007.
Awards and honors In 2002, Byrd earned the PGA Tour Rookie of the Year award.
Amateur wins this list may be incomplete 1999 Northeast Amateur
Professional wins (7) PGA Tour wins (5) No.DateTournamentWinning scoreMargin ofvictoryRunner(s)-up1Oct 27, 2002 Buick Challenge−27 (67-66-65-63=261)1 stroke David Toms2Jul 18, 2004 B.C. Open−20 (67-65-68-68=268)1 stroke Ted Purdy3Jul 15, 2007 John Deere Classic−18 (67-68-65-66=266)1 stroke Tim Clark4Oct 24, 2010 Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospitals for Children Open−21 (66-63-66-68=263)Playoff Martin Laird, Cameron Percy5Jan 9, 2011 Hyundai Tournament of Champions−24 (69-63-69-67=268)Playoff Robert Garrigus
PGA Tour playoff record (2–1) No.YearTournamentOpponent(s)Result12010Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospitals for Children Open Martin Laird, Cameron PercyWon with eagle on fourth extra hole22011Hyundai Tournament of Champions Robert GarrigusWon with par on second extra hole32011Wells Fargo Championship Lucas GloverLost to par on first extra hole
Web.com Tour wins (2) Legend Finals events (1) Other Web.com Tour (1) No.DateTournamentWinning scoreMargin ofvictoryRunner-up1Apr 29, 2001Buy.com Charity Pro-Am−18 (67-70-66-66=269)1 stroke Brenden Pappas2Oct 2, 2017Web.com Tour Championship−24 (64-65-64-67=260)4 strokes Sam Saunders, Shawn Stefani
Results in major championships Tournament 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012Masters TournamentT8CUTCUTCUTT27U.S. OpenT15CUTCUTCUTT56The Open ChampionshipT23CUTCUTPGA ChampionshipCUTCUTT20CUTCUTCUTCUT
CUT = missed the half way cut "T" indicates a tie for a place.
Summary Tournament Wins 2nd 3rd Top-5 Top-10 Top-25 Events Cuts madeMasters Tournament 0 0 0 0 1 1 5 2U.S. Open 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 2The Open Championship 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 1PGA Championship 0 0 0 0 0 1 7 1Totals 0 0 0 0 1 4 20 6 Most consecutive cuts made – 2 (three times) Longest streak of top-10s – 1
Results in The Players Championship Tournament200320042005200620072008200920102011201220132014The Players ChampionshipCUTCUTT32CUTT16T32T37CUTT41T12CUTCUT
CUT = missed the halfway cut "T" indicates a tie for a place
Results in World Golf Championships Tournament2003200420052006200720082009201020112012Match PlayR16R64R64ChampionshipT65T10T35InvitationalT71T59T55ChampionsT23
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 Season 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 2014 0 617,014 133 2015 0 446,732 163 2016 0 58,655 219 2017 0 328,337 176 2018 0 267,055 186 2019 0 550,547 162 2020 0 166,222 198 Career* 5 19,348,865 87 * 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: 1999 (winners), 2000 Walker Cup: 1999 Professional Wendy's 3-Tour Challenge (representing PGA Tour): 2011
See also 2001 Buy.com Tour graduates 2017 Web.com Tour Finals graduates
References
External links
Player Bio: Clemson Official Athletic site