Brian Jones (golfer)

Brian Jones
Brian Jones
Personal information
Born	12 September 1951 (age 73); Sydney, Australia
Height	1.69 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight	72 kg (159 lb; 11.3 st)
Sporting nationality	Australia
Career
Turned professional	1971
Former tour(s)	PGA of Japan Tour; Asia Golf Circuit; PGA Tour of Australia; European Seniors Tour
Professional wins	21
Number of wins by tour
Japan Golf Tour	11
PGA Tour of Australasia	4
European Senior Tour	1
Other	5
Best results in major championships;
Masters Tournament	DNP
PGA Championship	DNP
U.S. Open	DNP
The Open Championship	T8: 1981

Brian Jones (born 12 September 1951) is an Australian professional golfer.

Golf career

Jones was born in Sydney. He turned professional in 1971. He played on the throughout Asia and Australasia including on the Japan Golf Tour. He won the Indian Open two times, five times in Australasia, and twelve times in Japan. He won 11 events on the Japan Golf Tour between 1977 and 1993.

Jones played in multiple Open Championships; his best performance coming at the 1981 Open Championship, where he finished in a tie for 8th place.

Jones played on the European Seniors Tour from 2002 to 2005, winning the 2002 De Vere Hotels Seniors Classic.

Personal life

Jones married Sachiko, a Japanese woman, in the early 1980s.^[1]

Professional wins (21)

PGA of Japan Tour wins (11)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up
1	28 Aug 1977	KBC Augusta	−10 (73-72-68-65=278)	Playoff	Akira Yabe
2	2 Jun 1985	Mitsubishi Galant Tournament	−12 (67-70-72-63=272)	Playoff	Nobumitsu Yuhara
3	25 Aug 1985	Maruman Open	−9 (70-70-70-69=279)	1 stroke	Teruo Suzumura
4	20 Apr 1986	Bridgestone Aso Open	−12 (70-69-67-34=240)*	1 stroke	Nobumitsu Yuhara
5	31 May 1987	Mitsubishi Galant Tournament (2)	−5 (70-70-71-72=283)	3 strokes	Nobuo Serizawa, Koichi Suzuki
6	29 May 1988	Mitsubishi Galant Tournament (3)	−17 (68-68-67-68=271)	Playoff	Naomichi Ozaki
7	2 Oct 1988	Tokai Classic	−14 (69-69-71-65=274)	3 strokes	Koichi Suzuki
8	29 Oct 1989	ABC Lark Cup	−8 (70-69-69-72=280)	4 strokes	Toshiaki Sudo
9	4 Mar 1990	Daiichi Fudosan Cup	−13 (71-66-70-68=275)	2 strokes	Hideki Kase
10	24 Jun 1990	Mizuno Open	−16 (73-66-66-67=272)	4 strokes	Tsuneyuki Nakajima
11	13 Jun 1993	Sapporo Tokyu Open	−14 (69-67-69-69=274)	3 strokes	Akiyoshi Ohmachi

*Note: The 1986 Bridgestone Aso Open was shortened to 63 holes due to rain.

PGA of Japan Tour playoff record (3–4)

No.	Year	Tournament	Opponent(s)	Result
1	1976	Pepsi-Wilson Tournament	Graham Marsh, Shozo Miyamoto, Peter Thomson	Thomson won with par on fourteenth extra hole Jones eliminated by par on fourth hole Miyamoto eliminated by par on first hole
2	1977	KBC Augusta	Akira Yabe	Won with par on second extra hole
3	1985	Mitsubishi Galant Tournament	Nobumitsu Yuhara	Won with birdie on fourth extra hole
4	1988	Mitsubishi Galant Tournament	Naomichi Ozaki	Won with birdie on first extra hole
5	1988	ANA Open	Naomichi Ozaki	Lost to par on third extra hole
6	1988	Polaroid Cup Golf Digest Tournament	Masashi Ozaki	Lost to birdie on first extra hole
7	1991	Fujisankei Classic	Isao Aoki, Saburo Fujiki, Hideki Kase	Fujiki won with birdie on second extra hole

Asia Golf Circuit wins (3)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	Margin of victory	Runners-up
1	19 Mar 1972	Indian Open	−10 (70-72-70-70=282)	2 strokes	Ben Arda, Peter Thomson
2	3 Apr 1977	Indian Open (2)	−4 (69-70-76-69=284)	1 stroke	Mya Aye, Yoshikazu Hayashi, Peter Thomson
3	19 Mar 1978	Malaysian Open	−12 (69-71-66-70=276)	6 strokes	Ben Arda, Stewart Ginn, Mike Krantz

PGA Tour of Australia wins (4)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up
1	5 Oct 1980	Barclays Australian Classic	+1 (74-73-68-74=289)	2 strokes	John Clifford
2	4 Jan 1981	New Zealand PGA Championship	−4 (69-67-71-73=280)	Playoff	Dennis Clark, John Lister
3	2 Dec 1984	Air New Zealand Shell Open	−14 (66-67-67-66=266)	2 strokes	Wayne Grady
4	1 Feb 1987	Foster's Tattersall Tasmanian Open	−5 (69-70-74-70=283)	1 stroke	Mike Colandro

PGA Tour of Australia playoff record (1–2)

No.	Year	Tournament	Opponents	Result
1	1976	New South Wales PGA Championship	Marty Bohen, Mark Tapper	Tapper won 18-hole playoff; Tapper: −1 (71), Bohen: E (72), Jones: +1 (73)
2	1976	Tasmanian Open	Stewart Ginn, David Good, Ian Stanley	Good won with birdie on fifth extra hole Ginn and Stanley eliminated by par on first hole
3	1981	New Zealand PGA Championship	Dennis Clark, John Lister	Won with birdie on fourth extra hole Clark eliminated by par on second hole

Other wins (2)

1970 Western Australia Open
1985 Acom Doubles (with Mike Ferguson) (Japan)

European Seniors Tour wins (1)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning score	Margin of victory	Runners-up
1	1 Sep 2002	De Vere Hotels Seniors Classic	−9 (70-68-69=207)	7 strokes	Tommy Horton

Results in major championships

Tournament	1976	1977	1978	1979	1980	1981	1982	1983	1984	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989	1990
The Open Championship	CUT			CUT		T8	CUT					T59			CUT

Top 10

Did not play

CUT = missed the half-way cut (3rd round cut in 1976, 1979 and 1982 Open Championships)
"T" indicates a tie for a place
Note: Jones only played in The Open Championship.

Team appearances

World Cup (representing Australia): 1990
Four Tours World Championship (representing Australasia): 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990 (winners)

References

^ "'Forgotten' Jones bounces back in Tasmania". Canberra Times. 2 February 1987. Retrieved 27 September 2021.

External links

Brian Jones at the Japan Golf Tour official site
Brian Jones at the European Tour official site
Brian Jones at the Official World Golf Ranking official site

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[1] "'Forgotten' Jones bounces back in Tasmania". Canberra Times. 2 February 1987. Retrieved 27 September 2021.

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