1980 in Sports - Golf

Golf

Men's professional

  • The Senior PGA Tour (now called Champions Tour) is founded.
  • Masters Tournament – Seve Ballesteros
  • U.S. Open – Jack Nicklaus
  • British Open – Tom Watson
  • PGA Championship – Jack Nicklaus
  • PGA Tour money leader – Tom Watson – $530,808
  • Senior PGA Tour – money leader – Don January – $44,100

Men's amateur

  • British Amateur – Duncan Evans
  • U.S. Amateur – Hal Sutton

Women's professional

  • LPGA Championship – Sally Little
  • U.S. Women's Open – Amy Alcott
  • Classique Peter Jackson Classic – Pat Bradley
  • LPGA Tour money leader – Beth Daniel – $231,000

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Famous quotes containing the word golf:

    “If there is any larceny in a man, golf will bring it out.”
    —Paul Gallico (1897–1976)

    “And the wind shall say: “Here were decent godless people:
    Their only monument the asphalt road
    And a thousand lost golf balls.””
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    “Did I make you go insane?
    Did I turn up your earphone and let a siren drive through?
    Did I open the door for the mustached psychiatrist
    who dragged you out like a golf cart?
    Did I make you go insane?”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)