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J.B. Holmes

J.B. Holmes’s full name is John Bradley J.B Holmes and he was born in the year 1982. He is American professional golfer and he plays for PGA Tour. Holmes was born in Kentucky in the city of Campbellville and he started to play in the varsity golf team at Taylor County High School of Campbellville when he was still in the third grade. When he was in school, he was suffering a mild type of Dyslexia. His childhood friend called Brandon Parsons works as his caddy. When he was in the high school, he was playing for Pepsi Junior Golf Tour. He went to University of Kentucky of Lexington and he was helping in order to achieve the SEC Title when he was still in that place and he represented United States of 2005 Walker Cup before he turned to be professional later in the same year.

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According to his biography, J.B. Holmes was the medalist of the pga tour qualifying tournament of 2005. He had a tie for the tenth with the first PGA tour at Sony Open of Hawaii of 2006. In the same year, he got the FBR Open and it made him to be the fastest golfer who was able to reach to 1,000,000 dollars in the career when he earned the PGA Tour. It was the fourth tournament when he was on the tour and it was the fifth tournament when he started to play like a professional and he was the fourth for the PGA Tour.

After the victory, his form started to fade away and he was on the place of 118th in 2007. In the year 2008, he won FBR Open for its second tour win and for his career and also captured the title for the tournament for the second time after three years. After starting for his final round with the four shot lead on the 18th tee, he was hot behind Phil Mickelson.

J.B. Holmes is known to be a rookie together with others like Bubba Watson with Camilo Villegas. He is known for hitting ball long distance in the excess of 300 yards.

In 2011, he withdrawn from the 2011 PGA Championship and he had been suffering vertigo symptoms for many months and afterwards he was diagnosed by the problem called Chairi malformations. He underwent the brain surgery and after a month, it was found that he was allergic to the webbed titanium plate that was put in the skull and he has to be taken back to hospital to do a new surgery. After the surgery, he suffered ankle and elbow injuries and they limited him to play six PGA tour event of 2013. He waited and played in Japan Golf Tour and in Dunlop Phoenix Tournament. He is married and his wife is called Erica Holmes. She was worried when she had to go under the surgery.


Quick Facts
Birth Date: 26 Apr, 1982
Age: 38 yrs
Occupations: Golfer
Citizenship: United States of America
Birth Place: Campbellsville
Gender: Male
Description: Professional golfer
Net Worth 2021: 50 million
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Last Modified: Jun 27 2020
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