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Steve Jones (born December 27, 1958 in Artesia, New Mexico) is a professional golfer who is best known for winning the U.S. Open in 1996.

Jones was a semi-finalist at the U.S. Junior Amateur in 1976. He attended the University of Colorado and turned professional in 1981. The early years of his career where difficult. He played the PGA Tour in 1982, but only made three cuts. His first top 10 finish on the PGA Tour came at the Texas Open in September 1985, and in 1986 he won the PGA Tour Qualifying Tournament to retain his card for the following year. This marked the beginning of a more successful period. Jones won on the PGA Tour for the first time at the 1988 AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am. 1989 was the winningmost year of his career with three PGA Tour wins, and he finished a career best eighth on the money list.

In November 1991 Jones suffered ligament and joint damage to his left ring finger in a dirtbike accident, and he missed almost three years when he might have been in his prime. After playing two events in 1994, he began his comeback in earnest in 1995, when he picked up two top 10 finishes. In 1996 he achieved three top ten places by May, but he was still a rank outsider when he picked up the U.S. Open title that June, which was the only major championship of his career. He defeated Tom Lehman and Davis Love III by one stoke, and was the first sectional qualifier to win the tournament since Jerry Pate in 1976.

Jones picked up two more PGA Tour wins in 1997 and his last to date in 1998. Since then he has slipped steadily down the money list, but he is exempt on the PGA Tour until 2006 as the majors carried a 10-year exemption back in 1996. He missed part of 2003 and all of 2004 after undergoing surgery for tennis elbow, but starting playing again in 2005.

Jones' played for the United States in the 1996 World Cup of Golf and was captain's assistant for the United States team at the 2004 Ryder Cup.

PGA Tour wins

1988 AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am
1989 MONY Tournament of Champions, Bob Hope Chrysler Classic, Canadian Open
1996 U.S. Open
1997 Phoenix Open, Bell Canadian Open
1998 Quad City Classic

Major championship shown in bold.

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Athletes - Steve Jones

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