Brian Jones (golfer)

Brian Jones
Personal information
Born (1951-09-12) 12 September 1951
Sydney, Australia
Height1.69 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight72 kg (159 lb; 11.3 st)
Sporting nationality Australia
Career
Turned professional1971
Former tour(s)PGA of Japan Tour
Asia Golf Circuit
PGA Tour of Australia
European Seniors Tour
Professional wins21
Number of wins by tour
Japan Golf Tour11
PGA Tour of Australasia4
European Senior Tour1
Other5
Best results in major championships
Masters TournamentDNP
PGA ChampionshipDNP
U.S. OpenDNP
The Open ChampionshipT8: 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)

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

See also

References

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


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