Is Jimmy Walker a Major Contender After Pebble Beach Win, Red-Hot 2013-14 Start?

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Published: February 10, 2014

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Guys with the name Jimmy Walker have starred in a television sitcom and played professional basketball, but one currently plays professional golf.

Of those three, only one has ever been referred to as Kid Dyn-o-mite, the star of a 1970s television sitcom, Good Times.

The basketball player retired in the mid-1970s after a nine-year career in the NBA.

The golfer is in the prime of what might be considered an average career, but over the last few months, he has suddenly become the hottest golfer on the PGA Tour.

Since October, this 35-year-old Texan has won three times—the first three victories of his PGA Tour career. He's been making appearances on the PGA Tour since 2001, but he started playing regularly in 2005.

While he's rarely been seen near the top of leaderboards, Walker has earned over $10 million.



He was named the Player of the Year on the Web.com Tour in 2004 after winning three times that year.

Two questions appear to be on the table at this point: 1) How does a man start 187 times on the PGA Tour without winning and then win three times in his next eight starts? and 2) What does this mean for a guy who at 35 is hitting it as long off the tee as players 15 years younger?

The easy answer is that Walker is a late bloomer. He's not the only player to go a long time before figuring out how to win. It actually says more about the quality and the depth of the quality that exists today on the PGA Tour.

The fact that Walker has won three times in a season after going winless before puts him in some serious company. As a matter of fact, he's only the fifth player to ever do so since 1970. Even better, he joins Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson and David Duval as the only players to win three times in at least the first eight events of a season.

With the momentum gained by winning the Frys.com Open in October, Walker has slingshotted hi...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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