Kurt Barnes | |||
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Personal information | |||
Born | Muswellbrook, New South Wales, Australia | 25 May 1981||
Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||
Sporting nationality | Australia | ||
Residence | Muswellbrook, New South Wales, Australia | ||
Career | |||
Turned professional | 2003 | ||
Current tour(s) | Japan Golf Tour PGA Tour of Australasia | ||
Professional wins | 6 | ||
Number of wins by tour | |||
Japan Golf Tour | 1 | ||
Other | 5 | ||
Best results in major championships | |||
Masters Tournament | DNP | ||
PGA Championship | DNP | ||
U.S. Open | CUT: 2015 | ||
The Open Championship | CUT: 2010, 2011 | ||
Achievements and awards | |||
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Kurt Barnes (born 25 May 1981) is an Australian professional golfer.
Barnes was born in Muswellbrook, New South Wales. He had a successful amateur career which included victories in the 2002 Australian Amateur, the 2003 Riversdale Cup, which he won with a record 22 under par total, and the 2003 New Zealand Amateur Stroke Play Championship. He turned professional at the end of 2003 and joined the PGA Tour of Australasia.
In 2009 Barnes became the first Australian to win on the Omega China Tour, when he claimed victory in the Sofitel Zhongshan IGC Open.[1] He went on to head the tour's Order of Merit that season, before winning his place on the Japan Golf Tour by finishing first at the tour's qualifying school.[2]
No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | Margin of victory |
Runners-up |
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1 | 18 Sep 2011 | ANA Open | −13 (71-66-67-71=275) | 1 stroke | Tomohiro Kondo, Shingo Katayama, Koumei Oda |
No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | Margin of victory |
Runner-up |
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1 | 22 May 2011 | SK Telecom Open1 | −14 (71-64-67=202)* | 1 stroke | Kim Kyung-tae |
*Note: The 2011 SK Telecom Open was shortened to 54 holes due to fog.
1Co-sanctioned by the Korean Tour
No. | Date | Tournament | Winning score | Margin of victory |
Runner-up |
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1 | 14 Nov 2004 | Toyota Queensland PGA Championship | −29 (66-64-64-65=259) | 1 stroke | Gary Simpson |
2 | 30 Jan 2005 | Mitsubishi Motors Victorian Open | −12 (65-68-71=204) | Playoff | Nathan Green |
Tournament | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 |
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Masters Tournament | ||||||
U.S. Open | CUT | |||||
The Open Championship | CUT | CUT | ||||
PGA Championship |
CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied
Amateur