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Full name
  
James Martin Barnes

Children
  
Carolyn, Jean

Former tours
  
PGA TOUR

Nickname
  
Long Jim Big Jim

Other
  
4

PGA tour wins
  
21


Nationality
  
England

Name
  
Jim Barnes

Professional wins
  
28

Spouse
  
Carolyn Mary Barnes

Height
  
1.93 m

Turned professional
  
1906

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Born
  
April 8, 1886 Lelant, Cornwall, England (
1886-04-08
)

Died
  
May 24, 1966, East Orange, New Jersey, United States

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James Martin Barnes (April 8, 1886 – May 24, 1966) was a leading figure in the early years of professional golf in the United States. He is one of three native Britons (with Tommy Armour and Rory McIlroy) to win three different major professional championships.

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Jim Barnes The 2006 PGA Championship News

Early life

Jim Barnes Tacomas Jim Barnes was a thinking mans golfer Northwest Hickory

Barnes was born on April 8, 1886 in Lelant, Cornwall. Barnes was like many golfers of his era, and worked as a caddie and a club-maker's apprentice while growing up. He moved to the United States and turned professional in 1906, but never became an American citizen. He arrived in San Francisco, and later worked in Vancouver, British Columbia, Spokane, Washington, and Tacoma, Washington, and then at The Broadmoor in Colorado Springs.

Golf career

Jim Barnes 1921 US Open champ Jim Barnes has ties to Spokane Country Club

From 1923–26, he was resident professional at the Temple Terrace Golf and Country Club in Temple Terrace, Florida, which hosted the 1925 Florida Open (dubbed "The Greatest Field of Golfers Ever to Play in Florida") as well as the 1926 Florida Open with over one hundred contestants and a $5,000 cash prize. In 1925–26 his good friend and fellow golfer Fred McLeod wintered with him and they worked with James Kelly Thomson from North Berwick.

Jim Barnes Inside Hickory Golf The Jim Barnes connection to the Northwest

Barnes was also known as "Long Jim" for his height of 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m). He later moved west to the Oakland, California, area where he resided for many years. Barnes authored several books on golf technique, and died at age 80 in East Orange, New Jersey.

He won four majors:

  • PGA Championship: 1916, 1919
  • U.S. Open: 1921
  • The Open Championship: 1925
  • Barnes' two PGA titles were the first in the event; there was no tournament in 1917 or 1918 because of World War I. His winning margin in the 1921 U.S. Open was nine strokes, a record which was not broken until Tiger Woods won by 15 strokes in 2000.

    Barnes was one of the most prolific tournament winners of the first few seasons of the PGA Tour, which was also founded in 1916. He won 21 times on the tour in total. He led the tournament winners list in four seasons: 1916 with three, 1917 with two (shared with Mike Brady), 1919 with five and 1921 with four. In 1940, Barnes was honored as one of the 12 golfers to be inducted in the PGA's inaugural Hall of Fame. Later he was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 1989.

    PGA Tour wins (21)

  • 1916 (3) North and South Open, Connecticut Open, PGA Championship
  • 1917 (2) Western Open, Philadelphia Open Championship
  • 1919 (5) North and South Open, Shawnee Open, Western Open, PGA Championship, Southern Open
  • 1920 (1) Shawnee Open
  • 1921 (4) Deland Open, Florida Open, U.S. Open, Main Line Open
  • 1922 (1) California Open Championship
  • 1923 (1) Corpus Christi Open
  • 1925 (1) The Open Championship
  • 1926 (1) Mid-Winter Tournament
  • 1930 (1) Cape Cod Open
  • 1937 (1) Long Island Open
  • Major championships are shown in bold.

    Other wins

    Note: This list may be incomplete

  • 1909 Northwest Open
  • 1911 Northwest Open
  • 1912 Northwest Open
  • 1913 Northwest Open
  • 1914 Western Open
  • 1921 California State Open
  • 1939 New Jersey State Open
  • Wins (4)

    Note: The PGA Championship was match play until 1958

    Results timeline

    Note: Barnes never played in the Masters Tournament.

    NYF = Tournament not yet founded
    NT = No tournament
    DNP = Did not play
    CUT = missed the half-way cut
    DNQ = Did not qualify for match play portion
    R32, R16, QF, SF = Round in which player lost in PGA Championship match play
    "T" indicates a tie for a place
    Green background for wins. Yellow background for top-10.

    References

    Jim Barnes Wikipedia