Briny Baird
Personal information
Full name	Michael Jancey Baird
Nickname	Briny
Born	May 11, 1972 (1972-05-11) (age 37) Miami Beach, Florida
Height	5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Weight	170 lb (77 kg; 12 st)
Nationality	United States
Career
College	Georgia Tech Valdosta State University
Turned professional	1995
Current tour(s)	PGA Tour
Professional wins	1
Number of wins by tour
Nationwide Tour	1
Best results in Major Championships
The Masters	CUT: 2004, 2009
U.S. Open	T40: 2001
Open Championship	CUT: 2009
PGA Championship	T22: 2001

Michael Jancey "Briny" Baird (born May 11, 1972) is an American professional golfer who has played on the PGA Tour and Nationwide Tour.

Baird was born in Miami Beach, Florida. He played varsity golf in the 7th grade at Miami Country Day. He originally attended Georgia Tech before transferring to Valdosta State University where he won the NCAA Division II individual golf championship in 1994 and 1995. He turned professional in 1995.

Baird won the 2000 Monterrey Open on the Buy.com Tour (now the Nationwide Tour). He currently plays on the PGA Tour, but a poor 2005 season saw him lose his card. His highest placing to date on the end of year tour money list was 27th in 2003. In 2008, he finished 27th in FedEx Cup, automatically qualifying him for the 2009 PGA Tour season. Although he has never won a PGA Tour event, he has finished second on four separate occasions, most recently at the 2009 Verizon Heritage.

Baird is the son of professional golfer Butch Baird. He is also known for his odd putting style that worked for him when he was doing it as a drill and it just stuck. On May 19, 2009, Baird hit a 230-yard shot from the top of the Omni San Diego Hotel to a bulls-eye in the center of Petco Park in order to give everyone a free chicken wrap at P. F. Chang's China Bistro.^[1]

Contents 1 Professional wins (1) 1.1 Nationwide Tour wins (1) 2 Results in major championships 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Professional wins (1)

[edit] Nationwide Tour wins (1)

• 2000 BUY.COM Monterrey Open

[edit] Results in major championships

Tournament	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
The Masters	DNP	DNP	DNP	CUT	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	CUT
U.S. Open	T40	DNP	DNP	CUT	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	CUT
The Open Championship	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	CUT
PGA Championship	T22	T43	T39	T37	DNP	DNP	DNP	T42	CUT

DNP = Did not play
CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied
Green background for wins. Yellow background for top-10.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Profile on the PGA Tour's official site
• Results in ranking events for the last two years from the Official World Golf Ranking site

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