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1979 Open Championship

Field	Value
name	1979 Open Championship
dates	18–21 July 1979
location	Lancashire, England
course	Royal Lytham & St Annes
Golf Club
tour	European Tour
PGA Tour
par	71
yardage	6822 yd
field	152 players
82 after 1st cut
61 after 2nd cut
cut	152 (+10) (1st cut)
227 (+14) (2nd cut)
purse	£155,000
$325,000
winners_share	£15,000
$31,500
champion	ESP Seve Ballesteros
score	283 (−1)
previous	[1978](1978-open-championship)
next	[1980](1980-open-championship)

Golf Club](royal-lytham-st-annes-golf-club) PGA Tour 82 after 1st cut 61 after 2nd cut 227 (+14) (2nd cut) $325,000 $31,500 |UK England St Annes St Annes The 1979 Open Championship was the 108th Open Championship, held 18–21 July at Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club in Lancashire, England. Seve Ballesteros, 22, won the first of his five major titles, three strokes ahead of runners-up Jack Nicklaus and Ben Crenshaw. It was the first of his three Open Championship victories; he raised the Claret Jug again in 1984 and 1988.

This was the last Open scheduled to end on Saturday; in 1980 it moved to a Sunday final round, similar to the other three majors.

Course

Main article: Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Out	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	In	Total
Yards	206	436	458	393	212	486	551	394	162	3,298	334	542	201	339	445	468	356	453	386	3,524	6,822
Par	3	4	4	4	3	5	5	4	3	35	4	5	3	4	4	4	4	4	4	36	71

Hole	Yards	Par	Hole	Yards	Par
1	206	3		10	334
2	436	4	11	542	5
3	458	4	12	201	3
4	393	4	13	339	4
5	212	3	14	445	4
6	486	5	15	468	4
7	551	5	16	356	4
8	394	4	17	453	4
9	162	3	18	386	4
Out	3,298	35	In	3,524	36
Source:	Total	6,822	71

Hole #6 was a par 4 in 2012.

Lengths of the course for The Open Championship (since 1950):

2001: 6905 yd, par 71
1996: 6892 yd, par 71
1988: 6857 yd, par 71
1979: 6822 yd, par 71 --
1974: 6822 yd, par 71
1969: 6848 yd, par 71
1963: 6836 yd, par 70
1958: 6635 yd, par 71
1952: 6657 yd

Round summaries

First round

Wednesday, 18 July 1979

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	SCO Bill Longmuir	65	−6
2	USA Hale Irwin	68	−3
3	USA Jerry Pate	69	−2
4	JPN Isao Aoki	70	−1
T5	AUS Terry Gale	71	E
ENG Peter McEvoy (a)
USA Orville Moody
USA Lee Trevino
T9	ZAF Hugh Baiocchi	72	+1
SCO Ken Brown
NZL Dennis Clark
USA Ben Crenshaw
ENG Gary Cullen
USA Jack Nicklaus
USA Tom Watson

Source:

Second round

Thursday, 19 July 1979

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	USA Hale Irwin	68-68=136	−6
2	ESP Seve Ballesteros	73-65=138	−4
3	SCO Bill Longmuir	65-74=139	−3
4	USA Tom Watson	72-68=140	−2
T5	NZL Dennis Clark	72-69=141	−1
USA Jack Nicklaus	72-69=141
7	AUS Graham Marsh	74-68=142	E
T8	SCO Ken Brown	72-71=143	+1
USA Bob Byman	73-70=143
USA Ben Crenshaw	72-71=143
USA Jerry Pate	69-74=143

Source:

Amateurs: McEvoy (+3), Player (+8), Hallberg (+14), Hoad (+15), Bennett (+17), Myers (+18), Guy (+20), Whelan (+23).

Third round

Friday, 20 July 1979

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	USA Hale Irwin	68-68-75=211	−2
2	ESP Seve Ballesteros	73-65-75=213	E
T3	ENG Mark James	76-69-69=214	+1
USA Jack Nicklaus	72-69-73=214
T5	AUS Rodger Davis	75-70-70=215	+2
USA Bob Byman	73-70-72=215
USA Ben Crenshaw	72-71-72=215
T8	JPN Isao Aoki	70-74-72=216	+3
AUS Greg Norman	73-71-72=216
USA Tom Watson	72-68-76=216
SCO Bill Longmuir	65-74-77=216

Amateurs: McEvoy (+4), Player (+19).

Final round

Saturday, 21 July 1979

Place	Player	Score	To par	Money (£)
1	ESP Seve Ballesteros	73-65-75-70=283	−1	15,000
T2	USA Ben Crenshaw	72-71-72-71=286	+2	11,250
USA Jack Nicklaus	72-69-73-72=286
4	ENG Mark James	76-69-69-73=287	+3	7,500
5	AUS Rodger Davis	75-70-70-73=288	+4	6,500
6	USA Hale Irwin	68-68-75-78=289	+5	6,000
T7	AUS Graham Marsh	74-68-75-74=291	+7	5,000
JPN Isao Aoki	70-74-72-75=291
USA Bob Byman	73-70-72-76=291
T10	NZL Bob Charles	78-72-70-72=292	+8	4,000
JPN Masashi Ozaki	75-69-75-73=292
AUS Greg Norman	73-71-72-76=292

Source:

Amateurs: McEvoy (+10)
The exchange rate at the time was approximately 2.30 dollars (US) per pound sterling.

References

(18 July 1979). "The course only tigers can tame". Glasgow Herald.
(2011). "Media guide". The Open Championship.
Jenkins, Dan. (30 July 1979). "Adios, amigos".
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Jacobs, Raymond. (23 July 1979). "A wayward win much in character". Glasgow Herald.
(22 July 1979). "Spaniard overtakes the Yanks". Eugene Register-Guard.
Jacobs, Raymond. (19 July 1979). "Longmuir blazes the Open trail". Glasgow Herald.
Jacobs, Raymond. (20 July 1979). "Sevvy has 65 – but Irwin leads". Glasgow Herald.
"The 108th Open Golf Championship: (1979) leaderboard". European Tour.
"1979 Open Championship results". databasegolf.com.
(July 1979). "British Pound / US Dollar Historical Reference Rates from Bank of England for 1979". PoundSterling.

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