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Home > Golf > Champions Tour Players > Tony Jacklin
Tony Jacklin
Golf is an outdoor sport. The game basically originated from Scotland and has been played for atleast five centuries in the British Isles. The Tour Championship is the final event of golf's Professional Golfers Association Tour season. The top 30 money winners on the PGA Tour after the penultimate event qualify for the Championship.
Tony Jacklin was born in Scunthorpe, England. He has 4 PGA Tour victories to his name, they are the 1968 Jacksonville Open Invitational, the 1969 British Open Championship, the 1970 U.S. Open Championship, the 1972 Greater Jacksonville Open and 2 Champions Tour Victories of the 1994 First of America Classic and 1995 Franklin Quest Championship.
He entered 1 2005 Season PGA Tour Tournaments. He outlasted six players for the 1995 Franklin Quest Championship title in Park City, Utah, United States of America. It was the second of two Champions Tour titles...The other came in 1994, when he triumphed at the rain-shortened First of America Classic in Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States Of America. It was in only his fourth start on the Champions Tour.
He is widely recognized as the man who helped re-establish European competitiveness in the Ryder Cup matches. He captained the European team to its first victory in the Ryder Cup in 28 years in 1985, and in 1987 again led the Europeans to a surprise win at Muirfield Village, Ohio, United States of America, their first win in America. He owns 24 victories worldwide, including two major championships.
His win at the 1969 British Open at Royal Lytham made him the first home-grown champion since Max Faulkner in 1951. He conquered high winds at Hazeltine Golf Cub to claim the U.S. Open 11 months later, a first by a Briton in 50 years. He also won Greater Jacksonville Open titles in 1968 and 1972. He was a member of the European Ryder Cup teams in 1967, 1969, 1971, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1979 and captained the team in 1983, 1985, 1987 and 1989. He named to the British World Cup team in 1966, 1970, 1971 and 1972. He elected to the World Golf Hall of Fame and inducted in November 2002.
Through his sheer determination and purpose of will, to excel in that which he puts his heart and mind to and the self-belief that one day his star too will shine, saw him through.
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