Brendan Jones makes PGA Tour Champions debut

Jones celebrates his most recent at the 2023 New Zealand Open – image Photosport 

Canberra golfer Brendan Jones will add to the ranks of Australians competing on the PGA Tour Champions in 2025 when he tees it up in this week’s Cologuard Classic in Tucson in Arizona.

In December, Jones produced a barnstorming finish to secure one of the five cards available at the Final Stage of Qualifying for the 2025 PGA Tour Champions. Jones birdied six of his last ten holes and now has full playing privileges for the tour for the over-50s.

Jones turned 50 on Monday just a day after competing at the New Zealand Open in Queenstown, an event he won two years ago although he finished only midfield last week.

Jones, a former Australian Amateur Champion and runner-up in the 2012 Australian Open, has been a prolific winner of money and titles in Japan since first joining that tour in 2001, winning 15 events there including flagship tournaments such as the Crowns and Visa Taiheiyo Masters.

Importantly for Jones is that he has continued to play, admittedly without a lot of success, over the last two years ahead of his departure for the US and given his performance just to get his playing rights for the PGA Tour Champions it would appear he has a good future there.

Jones spent the two years during COVID’s impact on world professional golf, working for a landscaping company in Canberra but returned with renewed enthusiasm for the game in 2023.

Jones played the PGA Tour for a year in 2006, finishing runner-up at the BC Open and winning on the then Nationwide Tour in the process of gaining his playing rights for the PGA Tour.

Amongst fellow Australians Jones will join on the PGA Tour Champions are Richard Green, Mark Hensby, Rod Pampling, Greg Chalmers, Cameron Percy, Michael Wright, David Bransdon and Steven Allan.