Jones won the New Zealand Amateur seven times between 1955 and 1971.

[1] He also won the Canadian Amateur Championship in 1967, beating fellow New Zealander Ross Murray in the final, the two being part of the New Zealand team that had just competed in the Commonwealth Tournament.

[3] Jones was runner-up in the 1970 Spanish International Amateur Championship.

[6] Jones represented New Zealand at international level from 1953 to 1975.

[2] He played in all six Commonwealth Tournament matches and also eight times against Australia in the Sloan Morpeth Trophy.