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Jim Barnes
Jim Barnes
Personal information
Full name	James Martin Barnes
Nickname	Long Jim; Big Jim
Born	April 8, 1886; Lelant, Cornwall, England
Died	May 24, 1966 (aged 80); East Orange, New Jersey, U.S.
Height	6 ft 4 in (193 cm)
Sporting nationality	England;
Spouse	Caroline Mary Barnes
Children	2
Career
Turned professional	1906
Former tour(s)	PGA Tour
Professional wins	29
Number of wins by tour
PGA Tour	22
Other	7
Best results in major championships; (wins: 4)
Masters Tournament	NYF
PGA Championship	Won: 1916, 1919
U.S. Open	Won 1921
The Open Championship	Won 1925
Achievements and awards
World Golf Hall of Fame
World Golf Hall of Fame	1989 (member page)

James Martin Barnes (April 8, 1886 – May 24, 1966) was an English golfer and a leading figure in the early years of professional golf in the United States. He is one of three native Britons (with Tommy Armour and Rory McIlroy) to win three different modern major professional championships.

Early life

Barnes was born on April 8, 1886, in Lelant, Cornwall. Barnes was like many golfers of his era, and worked as a caddie and a club-maker's apprentice while growing up. He moved to the United States and turned professional in 1906, but never became an American citizen. He arrived in San Francisco, and later worked in Vancouver, British Columbia, Spokane, Washington, and Tacoma, Washington, and then at The Broadmoor in Colorado Springs.^[2]

Golf career

From 1923 to 1926, he was resident professional at the Temple Terrace Golf and Country Club in Temple Terrace, Florida, which hosted the 1925 Florida Open (dubbed "The Greatest Field of Golfers Ever to Play in Florida"), as well as the 1926 Florida Open with over one hundred contestants and a $5,000 cash prize. In 1925–26 his good friend and fellow golfer Fred McLeod wintered with him, and they worked with James Kelly Thomson from North Berwick.^{[citation needed]}

Barnes was also known as "Long Jim" for his height of 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m). He later moved west to the Oakland, California, area where he resided for many years. Barnes authored several books on golf technique. He died at age 80 in East Orange, New Jersey, and is buried in Orange's Rosedale Cemetery.^[3]

He won nine majors, with four of them the modern professional majors. Many golfers and media covering the sport at the time, according to golf journalist Dan Jenkins, the Western Open and North and South Open titles he won at the time were declared majors.^[4]

Barnes' two PGA titles were the first in the event; there was no tournament in 1917 or 1918 because of World War I. His winning margin in the 1921 U.S. Open was nine strokes, a record which was not broken until Tiger Woods won by 15 strokes in 2000.

Barnes was one of the most prolific tournament winners of the first few seasons of the PGA Tour, which was also founded in 1916. He won 22 times on the tour in total. He led the tournament winners list in four seasons: 1916 with three, 1917 with two (shared with Mike Brady), 1919 with five and 1921 with four. His win in the 1937 Long Island Open marked the first PGA Tour win by a player past his 50th birthday. In 1940, Barnes was honored as one of the 12 golfers to be inducted in the PGA's inaugural Hall of Fame. Later he was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 1989.^[6]

Professional wins (29)

PGA Tour wins (22)

1914 (1) Western Open
1916 (3) North and South Open, Connecticut Open,^[7] PGA Championship
1917 (2) Western Open, Philadelphia Open Championship
1919 (5) North and South Open, Shawnee Open, Western Open, PGA Championship, Southern Open
1920 (1) Shawnee Open
1921 (4) Deland Open, Florida Open, U.S. Open, Main Line Open
1922 (1) California Open Championship
1923 (1) Corpus Christi Open
1925 (1) The Open Championship
1926 (1) Mid-Winter Tournament
1930 (1) Cape Cod Open^[8]
1937 (1) Long Island Open

Modern major championships are shown in bold.

Source:^[9]

Other wins

Note: This list may be incomplete

1909 Northwest Open
1911 Northwest Open
1912 Northwest Open
1913 Northwest Open
1915 Connecticut Open^[10]^[11]
1921 California State Open
1939 New Jersey State Open

Major championships

Wins (4)

Year	Championship	54 holes	Winning score	Margin	Runner(s)-up
1916	PGA Championship	n/a	1 up		Jock Hutchison
1919	PGA Championship (2)	n/a	6 & 5		Fred McLeod
1921	U.S. Open	7 shot lead	+9 (69-75-73-72=289)	9 strokes	Walter Hagen, Fred McLeod
1925	The Open Championship	5 shot deficit	70-77-79-74=300	1 stroke	Archie Compston, Ted Ray

Note: The PGA Championship was match play until 1958

Results timeline

Tournament	1912	1913	1914	1915	1916	1917	1918	1919
U.S. Open	T18	T4	T13	T4	3			T11
The Open Championship						NT	NT	NT
PGA Championship	NYF	NYF	NYF	NYF	1	NT	NT	1

Tournament	1920	1921	1922	1923	1924	1925	1926	1927	1928	1929
U.S. Open	T6	1	T24	T12		T29	CUT	T24	T36	T21
The Open Championship	6	T6	T2		T9	1	T18	T17	T6	7
PGA Championship	R16	2	R32	QF	2		R32		R16

Tournament	1930	1932
U.S. Open	T39	T55
The Open Championship	T6
PGA Championship	DNQ

Note: Barnes never played in the Masters Tournament.

Win

Top 10

Did not play

NYF = Tournament not yet founded
NT = No tournament
CUT = missed the half-way cut
DNQ = Did not qualify for match play portion
R32, R16, QF, SF = Round in which player lost in PGA Championship match play
"T" indicates a tie for a place

Summary

Tournament	Wins	2nd	3rd	Top-5	Top-10	Top-25	Events	Cuts made
Masters Tournament	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
U.S. Open	1	0	1	4	5	12	17	16
The Open Championship	1	1	0	2	8	10	10	10
PGA Championship	2	2	0	5	7	9	9	9
Totals	4	3	1	11	20	31	36	35

Most consecutive cuts made – 27 (1912 U.S. Open – 1926 Open)
Longest streak of top-10s – 8 (1919 PGA – 1922 Open)

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Kalb, Elliott (2006). "Jim Barnes: The Forgotten Champion". Who's better, who's best in golf?: Mr. Stats sets the record straight on the Top 50 Golfers of All Time. McGraw-Hill. pp. 159–63. ISBN 0-07-146977-X.
^ Missildine, Harry (May 29, 1966). "Barnes was giant in his day". Spokesman-Review. p. 1-sports. Retrieved May 17, 2013.
^ "Rosedale Cemetery Walking Guide of Notable Interments" (PDF). Retrieved November 8, 2022.
^ Newport, John Paul (July 15, 2009). "What Makes the Majors Major". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved June 11, 2018.
^ "1925 Jim Barnes". The Open. Archived from the original on October 16, 2013. Retrieved October 16, 2013.
^ "Jim Barnes". World Golf Hall of Fame. Retrieved November 22, 2015.
^ "Barnes is Winner of Open Title". Boston Post. September 1, 1916. p. 13. Retrieved December 22, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "24 Aug 1930, 35 - Hartford Courant at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com. Retrieved July 12, 2022.
^ "Jim Barnes". PGA Tour. Retrieved December 17, 2024.
^ "Barnes Wins Connecticut State Golf Championship". The Gazette Times. Archived from the original on November 27, 2021. Retrieved December 11, 2021 – via Google News Archive.
^ "Marty O'Loughlin in first twelve". Plainfield Courier-News. New Jersey. July 26, 1915. p. 10. Retrieved December 22, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.