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Miller Barber
Miller Barber
Personal information
Nickname	Mr. X
Born	March 31, 1931 (age 78); Shreveport, Louisiana
Height	5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Weight	200 lb (91 kg; 14 st)
Nationality	United States
Career
College	University of Arkansas
Turned professional	1958
Former tour(s)	PGA Tour; Champions Tour
Professional wins	40
Number of wins by tour
PGA Tour	11
Champions Tour	24
Best results in Major Championships;
The Masters	7th: 1969
U.S. Open	6th/T6: 1969, 1970
Open Championship	10th: 1969
PGA Championship	T4: 1971

Miller Barber (born March 31, 1931) is an American professional golfer who enjoyed significant success on the PGA Tour in the 1960s and 1970s and a greater degree of success on the Senior PGA Tour (now the Champions Tour) in the 1980s.

[edit] Career

Barber was born in Shreveport, Louisiana. He graduated from the University of Arkansas in 1954, turned professional four years later, and won his first PGA Tour event in 1964. He notched up eleven tour wins in total, but did not win a major championship. The closest he came was in 1969 at the U.S. Open at Houston, where he held a three-shot lead over the field after three rounds, but shot 78 in the last round to finish three shots behind winner Orville Moody. He played on the Ryder Cup team in 1969 and 1971, and in the latter year was ranked sixth on the McCormack rankings.

Barber became eligible to play on the Senior PGA Tour around a year after it was founded. He was one of the dominant players on the tour throughout the 1980s, competing on even terms with players who had had much more distinguished earlier careers such as Lee Trevino and Arnold Palmer. His twenty four wins on the Tour included five senior majors, three of them U.S. Senior Opens.

As of September 25, 2009, Barber held the record for combined PGA Tour and Champions Tour starts at 1292.^[1]

[edit] Professional wins (40)

Senior majors are shown in bold.

[edit] Other senior wins (4)

1985 Shootout at Jeremy Ranch (with Ben Crenshaw)
1987 Mazda Champions (with Nancy Lopez)
2002 Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf - Demaret Division (with Jim Ferree)
2003 Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf - Demaret Division (with Jim Ferree)

[edit] Results in major championships

Tournament	1961	1962	1963	1964	1965	1966	1967	1968	1969
The Masters	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	T12	7
U.S. Open	CUT	22	CUT	DNP	T32	T26	T18	T24	T6
The Open Championship	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	10
PGA Championship	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DQ	T34	DNP	T8	T5

Tournament	1970	1971	1972	1973	1974	1975	1976	1977	1978	1979
The Masters	T21	CUT	CUT	T43	T15	T26	DNP	DNP	T24	T12
U.S. Open	6	59	T29	T25	DNP	T24	T38	CUT	T35	CUT
The Open Championship	CUT	T60	DNP	DNP	CUT	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
PGA Championship	CUT	T4	T16	T24	T60	DNP	T51	T25	DNP	T28

Tournament	1980	1981	1982	1983	1984	1985	1986
The Masters	CUT	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
U.S. Open	DNP	DNP	DNP	CUT	DNP	DNP	CUT
The Open Championship	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
PGA Championship	T65	CUT	T34	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP

DNP = Did not play
DQ = Disqualified
CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" indicates a tie for a place
Green background for wins. Yellow background for top-10.

[edit] See also

[edit] References

^ Round 1 notes: SAS Championship

[edit] External links

Profile on the PGA Tours official site

[0] Round 1 notes: SAS Championship

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