Jimmy Walker (golfer)

Jimmy Walker
Nation:	United States
Career data
Professional since:	2001
Current tour:	PGA tour
Tournament wins:	8th
Major wins :	1 (2016)
Awards:	Nationwide Tour Player of the Year (2004)

Jimmy Walker (born January 16, 1979 in Oklahoma City , Oklahoma ) is an American PGA professional golfer . Walker attracted special attention in the 2013/2014 season when he was able to achieve three wins in the first eight tournaments of the season after 188 tournaments without a win.

Life / career

After graduating from high school, he attended Baylor University in Waco Texas , where he was a member of the golf team. At the age of 22 he decided to pursue a career as a professional golfer in 2001 and was then able to secure full entry rights for the Nationwide Tour of 2003. In 2004 he won the first two tournaments and ended the season as the winner of the money list and with the award "Player of the Year" - this also meant qualification for the PGA Tour .

Due to injuries and poor results in the first few years, he had to leave the PGA Tour as 202nd the money list after the end of the 2006 season and played again from 2007 on the Nationwide Tour. This season he finished 25th in the ranking and with a tournament victory, which he was able to secure the PGA tour card again. In the following years he achieved only a few good results, with a few exceptions, until he qualified for the first time for the FedEx Cup play-offs in 2011 with a few top ten placements . In the subsequent 2012 season he was able to improve his results and finished this season as 43rd of the FedExCup with a total of over two million dollars.

In the 2014 season, which started in autumn 2013, he was able to secure his first tournament victory after nine years and 188 tournaments on the PGA Tour. He was able to repeat this success twice in the following seven tournaments of the season. Due to his tournament victories and several top ten placements in major tournaments, he was able to qualify for the first time for the US team of the Ryder Cup 2014 after completing the PGA Championship as fourth in the ranking .

The greatest success of his career was when he won the PGA Championship in 2016.

Tournament victories

PGA tour

• 2013 Frys.com Open
• 2014 Sony Open in Hawaii, AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am
• 2015 Sony Open in Hawaii, Valero Texas Open
• 2016 PGA Championship

Nationwide Tour

• 2004 BellSouth Panama Championship
• 2004 Chitimacha Louisiana Open
• 2007 National Mining Association Pete Dye Classic

Results at major championships

Tournament	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019
The Masters	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	T8	T38	T29	T18	T20	T36
PGA Championship	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	CUT	DNP	T21	CUT	T7	CUT	1	CUT	T42	T23
US Open	T52	CUT	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	CUT	T9	T58	CUT	T56	CUT
The Open Championship	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	CUT	T26	T30	CUT	T54	CUT	CUT

DNP = not started
WD = withdrawn
CUT = failed at the cut
"T" = shared rank

Participation in team competitions

• Ryder Cup : 2014 , 2016 (winner)
• Presidents Cup : 2015 (winner)
• World Cup : 2016

Individual evidence

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Web links

• Personal Website (English)
• Player profile at the PGA Tour (English)
• Tournament results of the last two years on the Official World Golf Ranking Website (English)