{"id":21911,"date":"2021-03-25T16:46:37","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T23:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.proze.com\/?p=21911"},"modified":"2021-04-05T16:24:56","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T23:24:56","slug":"ricky-barnes-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.proze.com\/ricky-barnes-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Ricky Barnes"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"21911\" class=\"elementor elementor-21911\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-706388a1 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"706388a1\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-7b66fa56\" data-id=\"7b66fa56\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4eb2367f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"4eb2367f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<p>Barnes turned professional in 2003 and joined the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nationwide_Tour\">Nationwide Tour<\/a>&nbsp;in 2004. His best finish in that venue came at the 2006&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oregon_Classic\">Oregon Classic<\/a>&nbsp;when he lost to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cliff_Kresge\">Cliff Kresge<\/a>&nbsp;in a playoff. Barnes finished in the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2008_Nationwide_Tour_graduates\">25th spot<\/a>&nbsp;on the 2008 Nationwide Tour money list which earned him his PGA Tour card for 2009.<sup>[<em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:Citation_needed\">citation needed<\/a><\/em>]<\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2009_U.S._Open_Golf_Championship\">2009 U.S. Open<\/a>, Barnes set the 36-hole scoring record after shooting an 8-under 132 through the first two rounds in soft, rainy conditions. Early in the 3rd round, he became only the fourth player ever to reach double-digits under par.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ricky_Barnes#cite_note-3\">[3]<\/a><\/sup>&nbsp;Barnes, however, suffered a collapse in the final round, shooting a 76 (+6) and placing in a tie for 2nd, two shots behind winner,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lucas_Glover\">Lucas Glover<\/a>. The runner-up finish at the U.S. Open was his only top-25 finish in 2009, but he retained his tour card for 2010 by finishing 120th.<sup>[<em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:Citation_needed\">citation needed<\/a><\/em>]<\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2010, a string of top 10 finishes helped Barnes to comfortably keep his card, and he finished 43rd on the money list.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ricky_Barnes#cite_note-4\">[4]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In January 2011 Barnes signed a contract with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/G\/FORE\">G\/FORE<\/a>, a golf company from fashion designer&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mossimo_Giannulli\">Mossimo Giannulli<\/a>, to exclusively wear the G\/FORE colored glove on the PGA Tour.<sup>[<em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:Citation_needed\">citation needed<\/a><\/em>]<\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After playing well enough to retain his card in 2011 and 2012, he slipped to 130th on the money list in 2013 and also missed the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/FedEx_Cup\">FedEx Cup<\/a>&nbsp;playoffs (ranked 132). He played in the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Web.com_Tour_Finals\">Web.com Tour Finals<\/a>&nbsp;and finished 33rd to retain his PGA Tour card for 2014.<sup>[<em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:Citation_needed\">citation needed<\/a><\/em>]<\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the 2016&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Valero_Texas_Open\">Valero Texas Open<\/a>, Barnes held the 54-hole lead\/co-lead for only the third time in his PGA Tour career, after shooting a third round of 67 to lead by one stroke. He closed with a 74 in the final round and finished in a tie for 4th.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ricky_Barnes#cite_note-5\">[5]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Barnes has now played in over 300 events on the PGA Tour without a victory.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ricky_Barnes#cite_note-pga-2\">[2]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PGA PR\u014d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[168,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletes","category-pga"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proze.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proze.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proze.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proze.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proze.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.proze.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proze.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proze.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proze.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proze.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}