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Miller Barber (born March 31, 1931 Shreveport, Louisiana) was an American professional golfer who enjoyed significant success on the PGA Tour in the 1960s and 1970s and a greater degree of success on the Senior PGA Tour (now the Champions Tour) in the 1980s.

Career

Barber graduated from the University of Arkansas in 1954, turned professional four years later, and won his first PGA Tour event in 1964. He notched up eleven tour wins in total, but did not win a major championship.

Barber became eligible to play on the Senior PGA Tour around a year after is was founded. He was one of the dominant players on the tour throughout the 1980s, competing on even terms with players who had had much more distinguished earlier careers such as Lee Trevino and Arnold Palmer. His twenty four wins on the Tour included five senior majors, three of them U.S. Senior Opens.

PGA Tour wins

1964 Cajun Classic Open Invitational
1967 Oklahoma City Open Invitational
1968 Byron Nelson Golf Classic
1969 Kaiser International Open Invitational
1970 Greater New Orleans Open Invitational
1971 Phoenix Open Invitational
1972 Dean Martin Tucson Open
1973 World Open Golf Championship
1974 Ohio Kings Island Open
1977 Anheuser-Busch Golf Classic
1978 Phoenix Open

Champions Tour wins

1981 Peter Jackson Champions, Suntree Seniors Classic, Senior PGA Championship
1982 U.S. Senior Open, Suntree Seniors Classic, Hilton Head Seniors International
1983 Senior Players Championship, Merrill Lynch/Golf Digest Pro-Am, United Virginia Bank Seniors, Hilton Head Seniors International
1984 Roy Clark Challenge, U.S. Senior Open, Greater Syracuse Senior Classic, Denver Post Champions of Golf
1985 Sunrise Senior Classic, U.S. Senior Open, PaineWebber World Seniors Invitational
1986 MONY Senior Tournament of Champions
1987 Showdown Classic, Newport Cup
1988 Showdown Classic, Fairfield-Barnett Space Coast Classic
1989 MONY Senior Tournament of Champions, Vintage Chrysler Invitational

Senior majors are shown in bold.

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