W H O I S J I M M Y W A L K E R ?S T E P H E N G E R I :

• Born in Oklahoma City on January 16th, 1979, James William Walker, now known for his talents as an American professional golfer, started playing golf at a young age.

• He attended Baylor University in Texas after high school, where he played golf on the varsity level and quickly turned professional in 2001 at the young age of 22.

• Jimmy Walker is played on the Nationwide Tour in the years 2003-2004, where he won two professional events for his first time at the Chitimacha Louisiana Open and the BellSouth Panama Championship.

• He ended the year 2004 as the Player of the Year honors during the Nationwide Tour.

• After earning his PGA Tour card, Walker was only able to play for a limited amount of time in 2005 due to injuries.

• For the next few years he struggled to meet successful season at the PGA Tours, and went back to the Nationwide Tour in 2007, finishing with a third title to his name at the National Mining Association Pete Dye Classic.

• With a rough start to his career after being injured, Walker improved greatly in 2009, finishing with a T5 at the Turning Stone Resort Championship at the PGA Tour and ranked 125th on the money list.

• In 2010, his ranking on the money list jumped to 103, and in 2011 he enjoyed a great PGA Tour season, where he had three 4th/T4 finished and finished 68th in the FedEx Cup standings.

• The years 2010-2014 mark the height of Walker’s golf career thus far.

• In 2012, he made 25 cuts from the John Deere Classic, later finishing in T2, T3, and T4 in the 2013 Memorial Tournament with over $2 million in prize money.

• In 2014, Walker was entered in the world’s top 50 golfer for the first time.

• He won his maiden PGA Tour event after nine years and 188 PGA Tour starts.

• Shooting 62-66, Walker won by two strokes to Vijay Singh, a highly talented golfer.

• This win gave Walker the opportunity to place in the Hyundai Tournament of Champions, where he finished T21.

• In January 2014, Walker won his second PGA Tour at the Sony Open, where he birdied four out of six holes and shot a final round of 63 to beat Chris Kirk by one stroke.

• Walker’s career continues to grow, despite his loss in a sudden-death playoff at the Hyundai Tournament of Champions in 2015.

• After this loss, Walker won the Sony Open for a second time with another 63 strokes, making him a very noteworthy golfer in the community.

• Now, Walker lives in San Antonio and has moved into the world’s top 10 golfers after earning his fifth PGA Tour win at the Valero Texas Open.

• For more information about Jimmy Walker, please visit his PGA Tour golf statistics page here.