Erik Barnes enters play March 21-24 in the 2024 Valspar Championship at Innisbrook Resort (Copperhead Course) following a second-place finish in the Puerto Rico Open in Río Grande, Puerto Rico his last time in competition.

The Valspar Championship Tournament & Course Info

• Date: March 21-24, 2024
• Location: Palm Harbor, Florida
• Course: Innisbrook Resort (Copperhead Course)
• Par: 71 / 7,340 yards
• Purse: $8.4M
• Previous Winner: Taylor Moore

At the Valspar Championship

• Barnes missed the cut (with a score of +2) in his lone recent appearance at the Valspar Championship in 2023.
• When Taylor Moore won this tournament in 2023, he had 3.355 Strokes Gained: Off-the-Tee (second in the field), 5.129 SG: Approach the Green (fifth), and 4.864 SG: Putting (ninth).
• Moore also posted numbers of 306.4 in average driving distance (10th in field), 69.44% in terms of greens in regulation (second), and 27.75 putts per round (31st).

Barnes' Recent Performances

• Barnes has finished in the top five in one of his last five tournaments.
• Over his last five tournaments, Barnes has finished in the top 10 once.
• He has finished with an average score of -16 those four times he's made the cut.
• Erik Barnes has averaged 293.0 yards off the tee in his past five tournaments.
• Barnes is averaging -1.632 in terms of Strokes Gained: Putting in his past five tournaments.
• Looking at Strokes Gained: Total, Barnes has an average of -0.035 in his past five tournaments.

Barnes' Advanced Stats and Rankings

A dash represents a stat in which a player has not played a qualifying number of rounds this FedExCup season.

Barnes' Best Finishes

• Barnes teed off in 16 tournaments last season, collecting one top-10 finishes.
• In those 16 tournaments, he made the cut on five occasions.
• Last season Barnes put up his best performance at the Puerto Rico Open, where he finished second with a score of -44 (18 shots back of the winner).
• With 149 points last season, Barnes finished 176th in the FedExCup standings.

Barnes' Best Strokes Gained Performances

• Last season Barnes' best Strokes Gained: Off-the-Tee mark came at the Sony Open in Hawaii in January 2023, as he ranked in the field with a mark of 1.629.
• Barnes' best Strokes Gained: Approach mark last season came at The Honda Classic in February 2023, as he ranked 26th in the field with a mark of 3.734.
• When it comes to Strokes Gained: Around-the-Green, Barnes' best performance last season was at the Cadence Bank Houston Open, where his 3.359 mark ranked ninth in the field.
• At the Farmers Insurance Open in January 2023, Barnes delivered his best Strokes Gained: Putting mark last season (6.718). That ranked second in the field.
• Barnes recorded his best Strokes Gained: Total mark last season (10.215) in January 2023 at the Farmers Insurance Open, which ranked sixth in the field. He finished 13th in that event.

Barnes' Strokes Gained Rankings

A dash represents a stat in which a player has not played a qualifying number of rounds this FedExCup season.

Barnes' Past Results

All stats in this article are accurate for Barnes as of the start of the Valspar Championship.

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