Tony Jacklin

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Tony Jacklin

Personal Information
Birth	7 July 1944 (1944-07-07) (age 63) Scunthorpe, England
Height	5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
Weight	192 lb (87 kg/13.7 st)
Nationality	England
Career
Current tour	Retired
Professional wins	28 (European Tour: 8, PGA Tour 4, Champions Tour: 2, Other: 14)
Best Results in Major Championships Wins: 2
Masters	T12: 1970
U.S. Open	Won 1970
The Open Championship	Won 1969
PGA Championship	T25: 1969
Awards
Sir Henry Cotton Rookie of the Year	1963
World Golf Hall of Fame	2002

Tony Jacklin (born July 7, 1944) is an English golfer, who was the most successful UK player of his generation. He was also the most successful European Ryder Cup captain ever. He was born in Scunthorpe, England.

Jacklin won two majors. In 1969, he became the first British player to win The Open Championship for 18 years. The following season he won the U.S. Open. It was the first victory by a British player in that tournament since 1920, and as of 2007, it remained the only one by any European in the post World War II era.

Jacklin won eight events on the European Tour between its first season in 1972 and 1982. He also won tournaments in Europe pre the European Tour era and in the United States, South America, South Africa and Australasia.

However, Jacklin may be best remembered for his involvement in the Ryder Cup. He was a playing member of the "Great Britain and Ireland" team in 1967, 1969, 1971, 1973, 1975 and 1977, and of the first European team in 1979. Except for a tie in 1969, all of those teams were defeated, but as the non-playing captain of Europe in four consecutive Ryder Cups from 1983 to 1989, he had a 2.5 - 1.5 winning record, captaining his men to their first victory for 28 years in 1985, and to their first victory in the United States since the War in 1987.

Jacklin was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2002. He retired from tournament golf in 2004 at the age of sixty, having won a number of events at senior level.

[edit] Professional wins

[edit] European Tour wins (8)

• 1972 Viyella PGA Championship
• 1973 Italian Open, Dunlop Masters
• 1974 Scandinavian Enterprise Open
• 1976 Kerrygold International Classic
• 1979 Braun German Open
• 1981 Billy Butlin Jersey Open
• 1982 Sun Alliance PGA Championship

[edit] PGA Tour wins (4)

• 1968 Jacksonville Open Invitational
• 1969 The Open Championship (not a European Tour event because the European Tour was founded in 1972, retroactively classified as PGA Tour win in 2002)
• 1970 U.S. Open
• 1972 Greater Jacksonville Open

Major championships are shown in bold.

[edit] Other wins (15)

• 1964 Coombe Hill Assistants
• 1966 Kimberley Tournament (South Africa)
• 1967 Forest Products (New Zealand), New Zealand PGA Championship, British Masters, Pringle of Scotland Tournament
• 1970 Lancome Trophy (France, but not a European Tour event at that time), W.D. & H.O. Wills Tournament (Europe)
• 1971 Benson & Hedges Festival (Europe)
• 1972 Dunlop International
• 1973 Bogotá Open, Los Lagartos Open
• 1974 Los Lagartos Open
• 1976 Kerrygolf International (Ireland)
• 1979 Venezuela Open

[edit] Senior PGA Tour wins (2)

• 1994 First of America Classic
• 1995 Franklin Quest Championship

[edit] Major Championships

[edit] Wins (2)

Year	Championship	Winning Score	Margin	Runner Up
1969	The Open Championship	-4 (68-70-70-72=280)	2 strokes	Bob Charles
1970	U.S. Open	-7 (71-70-70-70=281)	7 strokes	Dave Hill

[edit] Results timeline

DNP = Did not play
CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" indicates a tie for a place
Green background for wins. Yellow background for top-10

[edit] External links

• Official site
• Profile on the European Tour's official site
• Profile on the PGA Tour's official site
• Tony Jacklin Golf Course Design site