John Jacobs
Summary
Ryder Cup
1 Cups, 2 matches: 2 won, 0 lost, 0 halved, 2 points. Foursomes 1-0-0, four-ball 0-0-0, singles 1-0-0.
Rivals
Ryder Cup partners
Ryder Cup opponents
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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 Ryder Cup
Thunderbird Ranch & Country Club · USA won 8–4 · 2-0-0, 2 points
John Fallon and John Jacobs beat Chandler Harper and Jerry Barber 1 up for GB's only foursomes point.
Chosen by rule: his best Ryder Cup by points. Year page: 1955.
Career line, 1955–1955
1 results. Hover or tap a mark; click it for the year.
- Ryder Cup, GB / Europe
John Jacobs was born in 1925 in Woodsetts, Yorkshire, England. Jacobs played in 1 Ryder Cup for GB (1955), winning 2, losing 0 and halving 0 of 2 matches for 2 points, and captained the side in 1979 and 1981.
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The record
Ryder Cup
Jacobs played 1 Ryder Cups for GB: 2 matches, 2 won, 0 lost, 0 halved, 2 points (100.0% of those available). By format: foursomes 1-0-0, four-ball 0-0-0, singles 1-0-0 (won-lost-halved).
- 1955 Thunderbird Ranch & Country Club GB · USA won 8–4 · 2-0-0, 2 points · automatic
- 1979 Captain Europe · lost 11–17
- 1981 Captain Europe · lost 9.5–18.5
Partners, with matches played together: John Fallon (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.