This Day in Golf History: April 25

Birthday milestones on April 25 belong to five-time PGA Tour winner Nick Watney, born in 1981, and diminutive Jerry Barber, born in 1916. Barber was born in Woodson, Illinois, west of Springfield in central Illinois. He was 5-5, 137 pounds. He made a pair of consecutive monster-length putts to win the 1961 PGA; he also holds the record for the oldest to play a tour event; he was 77 years 10 months 9 days when he played in the 1994 Buick Invitational, where he missed the cut. He died later in 1994 after turning 78.