Miller Barber

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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.

Contents 1 Career 2 Professional wins (39) 2.1 PGA Tour wins (11) 2.2 Other wins (1) 2.3 Champions Tour wins (24) 2.4 Other senior wins (3) 3 Results in major championships 4 See also 5 External links

[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. He played on the Ryder Cup team in 1969 and 1971.

Barber became eligible to play on the Senior PGA Tour around a year after is 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.

[edit] Professional wins (39)

[edit] PGA Tour wins (11)

• 1964 (1) Cajun Classic Open Invitational
• 1967 (1) Oklahoma City Open Invitational
• 1968 (1) Byron Nelson Golf Classic
• 1969 (1) Kaiser International Open Invitational (January)
• 1970 (1) Greater New Orleans Open Invitational
• 1971 (1) Phoenix Open Invitational
• 1972 (1) Dean Martin Tucson Open
• 1973 (1) World Open Golf Championship
• 1974 (1) Ohio Kings Island Open
• 1977 (1) Anheuser-Busch Golf Classic
• 1978 (1) Phoenix Open

[edit] Other wins (1)

• 1962 Metropolitan Open

[edit] Champions Tour wins (24)

• 1981 (3) Peter Jackson Champions, Suntree Seniors Classic, PGA Seniors' Championship
• 1982 (3) U.S. Senior Open, Suntree Classic, Hilton Head Seniors International (tie with Dan Sikes)
• 1983 (4) Senior Players Championship, Merrill Lynch/Golf Digest Commemorative Pro-Am, United Virginia Bank Seniors, Hilton Head Seniors International
• 1984 (4) Roy Clark/Skoal Bandit Senior Challenge, U.S. Senior Open, Greater Syracuse Senior's Pro Classic, Denver Post Champions of Golf
• 1985 (3) Sunrise Senior Classic, U.S. Senior Open, PaineWebber World Seniors Invitational
• 1986 (1) MONY Senior Tournament of Champions
• 1987 (2) Showdown Classic, Newport Cup
• 1988 (2) Showdown Classic, Fairfield Barnett Classic
• 1989 (2) MONY Senior Tournament of Champions, Vintage Chrysler Invitational

Senior majors are shown in bold.

[edit] Other senior wins (3)

• 1985 Shootout at Jeremy Ranch (with Ben Crenshaw)
• 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
WD = Withdrew
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

• Golfers with most PGA Tour wins
• Golfers with most Champions Tour wins
• Golfers with most Champions Tour major championship wins

[edit] External links

• Profile on the PGA Tours official site