1980 Masters Tournament

1980 Masters Tournament
Tournament information
Dates	April 10–13, 1980
Location	Augusta, Georgia; 33°30′11″N 82°01′12″W / 33.503°N 82.020°W
Course(s)	Augusta National Golf Club
Organized by	Augusta National Golf Club
Tour(s)	PGA Tour
Statistics
Par	72
Length	7,040 yards (6,437 m)
Field	91 players, 52 after cut
Cut	146 (+2)
Prize fund	$359,949
Winner's share	$55,000
Champion
	Seve Ballesteros
	275 (−13)
Location map
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The 1980 Masters Tournament was the 44th Masters Tournament, held April 10–13 at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia.

Seve Ballesteros, age 23, won his first Masters and second major championship title, four strokes ahead of runners-up Jack Newton and Gibby Gilbert.^[2] Ballesteros had a seven stroke lead after 54 holes^[3] and extended it to ten strokes after the front nine of the final round at 16-under-par, eyeing the Masters record of 271 (−17) set by Jack Nicklaus in 1965 (and equaled by Raymond Floyd in 1976). A new record (of 270 or lower) was to be rewarded with a $50,000 bonus from Golf magazine.^[4] An hour later, after he found the water at 12 and 13 at Amen Corner, the lead had been reduced to three. Ballesteros regrouped with a birdie at 15 and parred the rest to shoot even-par 72 for the round and held on for the victory.^[5]^[6]

Well back in the field on Sunday, Nicklaus, age 40, was paired with Arnold Palmer, age 50, which drew large galleries. Palmer shot 69 to finish at even par and T24, Nicklaus had 73 to finish at 291 (+3) and T33.^[4] It was their first pairing at Augusta in five years and the first time Palmer had finished higher than Nicklaus there since 1967.^[7] Nicklaus regrouped and won two majors in 1980, the U.S. Open and the PGA Championship and was the runner-up the following April.

Ballesteros, of Spain, was the first winner of the Masters from Europe, and won a second green jacket in 1983.

This was the final Masters with Bermuda and ryegrass greens, which were replaced with bentgrass following this tournament.^[8]

Field

1. Masters champions

Tommy Aaron, George Archer, Gay Brewer, Billy Casper, Charles Coody, Raymond Floyd (8,11), Doug Ford, Bob Goalby, Jack Nicklaus (3,4,8,9), Arnold Palmer, Gary Player (8,9), Sam Snead, Art Wall Jr., Tom Watson (3,8,11), Fuzzy Zoeller (8,12)

Jack Burke Jr., Jimmy Demaret, Ralph Guldahl, Claude Harmon, Ben Hogan, Herman Keiser, Cary Middlecoff, Byron Nelson, Henry Picard, and Gene Sarazen did not play.

The following categories only apply to Americans

2. U.S. Open champions (last five years)

Lou Graham (8,11), Hubert Green (8,11,12), Hale Irwin (8,9,12), Andy North (8,9), Jerry Pate (9,10)

3. The Open champions (last five years)

Johnny Miller (11)

4. PGA champions (last five years)

John Mahaffey (12), Dave Stockton, Lanny Wadkins (8,12)

5. 1979 U.S. Amateur semi-finalists

Cecil Ingram III (a), Mark O'Meara (6,a), Joey Rassett (a)

John Cook (6) forfeited his exemption by turning professional.

6. Previous two U.S. Amateur and Amateur champions

Jay Sigel (7,a)

7. Members of the 1979 U.S. Walker Cup team

Doug Clarke (a), Doug Fischesser (a), Mike Gove (a), Jim Holtgrieve (a), Griff Moody (a), Hal Sutton (a), Marty West (a)

Scott Hoch and Mike Peck forfeited their exemptions by turning professional.

8. Top 24 players and ties from the 1979 Masters Tournament

Miller Barber, Bobby Clampett (a), Lee Elder (9,12), Joe Inman, Tom Kite (12), Billy Kratzert, Bruce Lietzke, Gene Littler, Artie McNickle, Jim Simons (9), J. C. Snead, Ed Sneed (9), Craig Stadler (11), Leonard Thompson, Lee Trevino (11,12)

9. Top 16 players and ties from the 1979 U.S. Open

Ben Crenshaw (10,11), Keith Fergus, Bob Gilder, Larry Nelson (11,12), Calvin Peete (11), Tom Purtzer, Bill Rogers, Tom Weiskopf

10. Top eight players and ties from 1979 PGA Championship

Rex Caldwell, Gibby Gilbert, Jay Haas, Don January, Ron Streck, Howard Twitty (11)

11. Winners of PGA Tour events since the previous Masters

Andy Bean (12), George Burns, Jim Colbert, Dave Eichelberger, Ed Fiori, John Fought, Al Geiberger, Lon Hinkle, Wayne Levi, Jerry McGee, Jeff Mitchell, Gil Morgan (12), Jack Renner, Chi-Chi Rodríguez, Curtis Strange, Doug Tewell, D. A. Weibring

12. Members of the U.S. 1979 Ryder Cup team

Mark Hayes

13. Foreign invitations

Isao Aoki, Seve Ballesteros (3,8), David Graham (4,9,10), Mark James, Sandy Lyle, Graham Marsh (9), Peter McEvoy (6,a), Tōru Nakamura, Jack Newton (8)

Numbers in brackets indicate categories that the player would have qualified under had they been American.

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, April 10, 1980

Place	Player	Score	To par
T1	Seve Ballesteros	66	−6
	David Graham
	Jeff Mitchell
T4	Hubert Green	68	−4
T4	Jack Newton	68	−4
T6	Tom Kite	69	−3
T6	Larry Nelson	69	−3
T8	Gibby Gilbert	70	−2
	Artie McNickle
	Andy North
	Jim Simons
	Ed Sneed

Source:^[1]

Second round

Friday, April 11, 1980

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Seve Ballesteros	66-69=135	−9
T2	Rex Caldwell	73-66=139	−5
T2	David Graham	66-73=139	−5
T4	Tom Kite	69-71=140	−4
	Jerry Pate	72-68=140
	Jim Simons	70-70=140
	Ed Sneed	70-70=140
	Doug Tewell	71-69=140
T9	Ed Fiori	71-70=141	−3
	Jeff Mitchell	66-75=141
	Larry Nelson	69-72=141

Source:^[9]

Third round

Saturday, April 12, 1980

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Seve Ballesteros	66-69-68=203	−13
2	Ed Fiori	71-70-69=210	−6
T3	David Graham	66-73-72=211	−5
	Jack Newton	68-74-69=211
	Andy North	70-72-69=211
	J. C. Snead	73-69-69=211
T7	Rex Caldwell	73-66-73=212	−4
	Jim Colbert	72-70-70=212
	Gibby Gilbert	70-74-68=212
	Jim Simons	70-70-72=212
	Fuzzy Zoeller	72-70-70=212

Source:^[3]

Final round

Sunday, April 13, 1980

Final leaderboard

Champion
Silver Cup winner (low amateur)
(a) = amateur
(c) = past champion

*Top 10*
Place	Player	Score	To par	Money (US$)
1	Seve Ballesteros	66-69-68-72=275	−13	55,000
T2	Gibby Gilbert	70-74-68-67=279	−9	30,500
T2	Jack Newton	68-74-69-68=279	−9	30,500
4	Hubert Green	68-74-71-67=280	−8	15,750
5	David Graham	66-73-72-70=281	−7	13,200
T6	Ben Crenshaw	76-70-68-69=283	−5	9,958
	Ed Fiori	71-70-69-73=283
	Tom Kite	69-71-74-69=283
	Larry Nelson	69-72-73-69=283
	Jerry Pate	72-68-76-67=283
	Gary Player (c)	71-71-71-70=283

Leaderboard below the top 10
Place	Player	Score	To par	Money ($)
T12	Andy Bean	74-72-68-70=284	−4	7,250
T12	Tom Watson (c)	73-69-71-71=284	−4	7,250
T14	Jim Colbert	72-70-70-73=285	−3	5,917
	Jack Renner	72-70-72-71=285
	J. C. Snead	73-69-69-74=285
T17	Raymond Floyd (c)	75-70-74-67=286	−2	5,075
T17	Jay Haas	72-74-70-70=286	−2	5,075
T19	Billy Kratzert	73-69-72-73=287	−1	3,990
	Gil Morgan	74-71-75-67=287
	Calvin Peete	73-71-76-67=287
	Jim Simons	70-70-72-75=287
	Fuzzy Zoeller (c)	72-70-70-75=287
T24	Andy North	70-72-69-77=288	E	3,025
T24	Arnold Palmer (c)	73-73-73-69=288	E	3,025
T26	Keith Fergus	72-71-72-74=289	+1	2,430
	Lou Graham	71-74-71-73=289		2,430
	Jay Sigel (a)	71-71-73-74=289		0
	Craig Stadler	74-70-72-73=289		2,430
	Dave Stockton	74-70-76-69=289
	Lee Trevino	74-71-70-74=289
32	Tom Purtzer	72-71-74-73=290	+2	2,150
T33	John Fought	74-72-74-71=291	+3	1,860
	Joe Inman	74-70-75-72=291
	Graham Marsh	71-72-72-76=291
	Jack Nicklaus (c)	74-71-73-73=291
	Bill Rogers	73-71-76-71=291
T38	Rex Caldwell	73-66-73-80=292	+4	1,525
	Charles Coody (c)	72-73-71-76=292
	Johnny Miller	74-72-71-75=292
	Jeff Mitchell	66-75-75-76=292
	Doug Tewell	71-69-79-73=292
	Howard Twitty	72-72-77-71=292
T44	Jim Holtgrieve (a)	74-72-77-70=293	+5	0
	John Mahaffey	75-70-73-75=293		1,500
	Chi-Chi Rodríguez	74-72-71-76=293
	Ed Sneed	70-70-79-74=293
48	Sandy Lyle	76-70-70-78=294	+6	1,500
49	Gene Littler	72-72-77-75=296	+8	1,500
50	Bobby Clampett (a)	72-71-79-75=297	+9	0
51	Art Wall Jr. (c)	73-73-77-77=300	+12	1,500
52	Hal Sutton (a)	73-73-82-73=301	+13	0
CUT	George Archer (c)	77-70=147	+3
	George Burns	77-70=147
	Dave Eichelberger	75-72=147
	Bob Gilder	76-71=147
	Hale Irwin	74-73=147
	Don January	75-72=147
	Wayne Levi	76-71=147
	Joey Rassett (a)	73-74=147
	Curtis Strange	77-70=147
	Miller Barber	76-72=148	+4
	Mark James	74-74=148
	Ron Streck	75-73=148
	Leonard Thompson	75-73=148
	Cecil Ingram III (a)	74-75=149	+5
	Artie McNickle	70-79=149	+5
	Tommy Aaron (c)	76-74=150	+6
	Mark Hayes	74-76=150
	Bruce Lietzke	81-69=150
	Lanny Wadkins	76-75=151	+7
	D. A. Weibring	77-74=151	+7
	Doug Ford (c)	77-75=152	+8
	Al Geiberger	77-75=152
	Mike Gove (a)	78-74=152
	Jerry McGee	82-70=152
	Tōru Nakamura	81-71=152
	Gay Brewer (c)	82-71=153	+9
	Lee Elder	76-77=153
	Bob Goalby (c)	75-78=153
	Isao Aoki	77-77=154	+10
	Billy Casper (c)	77-77=154
	Sam Snead (c)	77-77=154
	Doug Fischesser (a)	78-77=155	+11
	Peter McEvoy (a)	79-76=155
	Griff Moody (a)	79-76=155
	Marty West (a)	82-78=160	+16
	Mark O'Meara (a)	80-81=161	+17
	Tom Weiskopf	85-79=164	+20
	Doug Clarke (a)	89-85=174	+30
WD	Lon Hinkle	78	+6

Sources:^[10]^[11]

Scorecard

Final round

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Par	4	5	4	3	4	3	4	5	4	4	4	3	5	4	5	3	4	4
Ballesteros	−14	−14	−15	−15	−16	−16	−16	−16	−16	−15	−15	−13	−12	−12	−13	−13	−13	−13
Gilbert	−4	−4	−4	−5	−5	−6	−6	−6	−6	−6	−6	−6	−7	−8	−9	−10	−10	−9
Newton	−5	−6	−6	−6	−6	−7	−6	−7	−6	−6	−7	−8	−9	−9	−9	−9	−9	−9
Green	−3	−4	−5	−5	−5	−5	−5	−6	−6	−5	−5	−4	−5	−5	−7	−7	−8	−8
Graham	−5	−5	−5	−5	−5	−5	−5	−5	−4	−4	−4	−5	−6	−6	−7	−7	−7	−7
Flori	−6	−6	−6	−6	−6	−5	−5	−5	−5	−5	−6	−5	−5	−5	−5	−5	−5	−5
Snead	−5	−6	−5	−5	−4	−4	−4	−4	−4	−4	−4	−4	−4	−4	−4	−3	−3	−3
North	−4	−1	−1	−1	−1	−1	−1	−1	+1	+1	+1	+1	+1	E	−1	−1	−1	E

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par

	Eagle		Birdie		Bogey		Double bogey		Triple bogey +

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