John Fallon
Summary
Near misses
Ryder Cup
1 Cups, 1 matches: 1 won, 0 lost, 0 halved, 1 points. Foursomes 1-0-0, four-ball 0-0-0, singles 0-0-0.
Rivals
Beat him
Ryder Cup partners
Ryder Cup opponents
Next in the chain: Peter Thomson's rivals →
Moments
- 1955 Ryder Cup John Fallon and John Jacobs beat Chandler Harper and Jerry Barber 1 up for GB's only foursomes point.
Results by championship
Best day
1955 The Open
Runner-up to Peter Thomson · 283.
Chosen by rule: the most recent of the best major finishes. Year page: 1955.
Career line, 1939–1955
4 results. Hover or tap a mark; click it for the year.
- Runner-up
- Top 10
- Ryder Cup, GB / Europe
John Fallon was born in 1913 in Lanark, Scotland. Fallon's best major finish was second, at the 1955 Open. Fallon played in 1 Ryder Cup for GB (1955), winning 1, losing 0 and halving 0 of 1 match for 1 point, and captained the side in 1963.
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The record
Near misses
Top-10 finishes are listed for The Open, the one championship with a full top 10 every year.
Ryder Cup
Fallon played 1 Ryder Cups for GB: 1 matches, 1 won, 0 lost, 0 halved, 1 points (100.0% of those available). By format: foursomes 1-0-0, four-ball 0-0-0, singles 0-0-0 (won-lost-halved).
- 1955 Thunderbird Ranch & Country Club GB · USA won 8–4 · 1-0-0, 1 point · committee pick
- 1963 Captain GB · lost 9–23
Partners, with matches played together: John Jacobs (1).
Sources
Every fact on this page comes from Golf Network News data sets compiled in October 2026 (Masters, PGA Championship, The Open, U.S. Women's Open, Ryder Cup, PGA Tour 2024–2026, major host sites, Champions Dinner menus, and the U.S. Open and state rooms). These are the sources those rows cite.