Ernie Jones (golfer)

Ernie Jones
Ernie Jones
Personal information
Full name	Ernest Thomas Jones
Born	22 September 1932 (age 92); Curragh Camp, County Kildare, Ireland
Sporting nationality	Ireland
Career
Status	Professional
Professional wins	6
Best results in major championships;
Masters Tournament	DNP
PGA Championship	DNP
U.S. Open	DNP
The Open Championship	T46: 1972

Ernest Thomas Jones (born 22 September 1932) is an Irish professional golfer. He twice won the Irish PGA Championship and represented Ireland in the 1965 Canada Cup. His biggest individual successes came in the 1961 Cox Moore Tournament and, as a senior, in the 1984 Trusthouse Forte PGA Seniors Championship.

Golf career

Jones won the Irish PGA Championship in 1955 and 1964.^[1]^[2] He also won the 1959 Hennessy Tournament. Outside Ireland, Jones was a surprise winner of the 1961 Cox Moore Tournament with an impressive score of 270, two strokes ahead of Peter Alliss, taking the first prize of £1,000.^[3] He also won the 1971 Kenya Open in a playoff.

Jones played in the Open Championship 8 times between 1957 and 1972 but only make the cut once, on his last appearance in 1972.

As a senior, Jones won the 1984 Trusthouse Forte PGA Seniors Championship at Stratford-on-Avon, beating Peter Butler and Ross Whitehead by 3 strokes and winning £3,000.^[4]

Tournament	1957	1958	1959
The Open Championship	CUT

Tournament	1960	1961	1962	1963	1964	1965	1966	1967	1968	1969
The Open Championship					CUT	CUT	CUT	CUT	CUT	CUT

Tournament	1970	1971	1972
The Open Championship			T46

Note: Jones only played in The Open Championship.

Did not play

CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" indicates a tie for a place