stationary camera used to capture the image of the 1924 field. Copies of that picture are available today in the clubhouse of the Donald Ross Course in French Lick. Barnes made it to the PGA final match twice more and was defeated by Hagen both times. At the 1924 PGA Championship, Hagen defeated Barnes in the final, 2 up. In his honor, the restaurant at French Lick’s Donald Ross Course is now called Hagen’s. I wonder if it would have been called “Gentleman Jim’s,” if the tall Englishman had prevailed? Barnes lost to Hagen in the 1921 PGA final match. Barnes added two more majors, the 1921 U.S. Open and the 1925 Open Championship. Those four major championship titles put Barnes on the list of only 17 golfers who have won at least three of golf’s four professional majors in their careers. In the 1921 U.S. Open, President Warren G. Harding presented Barnes with the winning trophy. Harding is the only sitting U.S. President to present the winning trophy to any major golf champion. Barnes never played in the Masters but was invited to participate in the first Masters tournament in March 1934, but declined. He may not have accepted the invitation because of his age, 47 at the time of the event. Barnes died of a heart attack at age 80 on May 24, 1966, in East Orange, New Jersey, where he is buried.
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