1980 U.S. Open (golf)


The 1980 U.S. Open was the 80th U.S. Open, held June 12–15 at Baltusrol Golf Club in Springfield, New Jersey, west of New York City. Jack Nicklaus set a new tournament scoring record to win his fourth U.S. Open title, two strokes ahead of runner-up Isao Aoki.The two playing all four rounds together.
Nicklaus and Tom Weiskopf began the tournament by shooting a record-tying 63 in the first round on the Lower Course on Thursday. Weiskopf, however, did not shoot better than 75 in any other round and finished 37th. After a second round 71, Nicklaus owned a two-stroke lead over Isao Aoki. Aoki, however, carded a third consecutive round of 68 in the third to tie Nicklaus.
In the final round on Sunday, Nicklaus birdied the 3rd after Aoki recorded a bogey on 2, taking a two-shot lead. Nicklaus, however, could not separate himself from his challenger. After he hit his approach to 3 feet on 10, Aoki made a long putt from the fringe for a birdie. On the 17th Nicklaus holed a 22-footer for birdie while Aoki made his own 5-footer for birdie. And at the 18th Nicklaus rolled in another birdie from 10-feet to win the championship, his sixteenth major title as a professional.
Nicklaus' winning total of 272 established a new U.S. Open standard, breaking the record 275 he set in 1967 on the same Lower Course. He also tied Willie Anderson, Bobby Jones, and Ben Hogan by winning his fourth U.S. Open title. Nicklaus had failed to win a tournament in 1979 for the first time in his career, and at 40 many believed his best days were behind him. He won four more times on the PGA Tour with two majors, including the PGA Championship two months later and the Masters in 1986.
Seve Ballesteros, the reigning champion of the British Open and Masters, was late to the course on Friday, missed his tee time, and was disqualified; he had carded a 75 on Thursday.
The U.S. Open returned to the Lower Course in 1993, and the PGA Championship was played there in 2005 and in 2016.

Course layout

Lower Course
Hole123456789Out101112131415161718InTotal
Yards4653774381943884704703742053,3814544281933934094302166305423,6957,076
Par444344443344434443553670

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Lengths of the course for previous major championships:

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Missed the cut

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Round summaries

First round

Thursday, June 12, 1980
PlacePlayerCountryScoreTo par
T1Jack Nicklaus63−7
T1Tom Weiskopf63−7
T3Keith Fergus66−4
T3Mark Hayes66−4
T3Lon Hinkle66−4
T6Raymond Floyd67−3
T6Jay Haas67−3
T6Calvin Peete67−3
T9Isao Aoki68−2
T9Mark Lye68−2
T9Andy North68−2
T9Lee Trevino68−2

Second round

Friday, June 13, 1980
PlacePlayerCountryScoreTo par
1Jack Nicklaus63-71=134−6
T2Isao Aoki68-68=136−4
T2Keith Fergus66-70=136−4
T2Lon Hinkle66-70=136−4
T2Mike Reid69-67=136−4
6Mark Hayes66-71=137−3
T7Pat McGowan69-69=138−2
T7Tom Weiskopf63-75=138−2
T9Peter Jacobsen70-69=139−1
T9Tom Watson71-68=139−1

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Amateurs: Hallberg, Clampett , Sigel, Sindelar, Wagner, Wood, Blake, Sutton, Rassett, Sluman, Clearwater, Mudd, Norton, O'Meara, Bergin, Landers, Chalas, Glickley.

Third round

Saturday, June 14, 1980
PlacePlayerCountryScoreTo par
T1Isao Aoki68-68-68=204−6
T1Jack Nicklaus63-71-70=204−6
3Lon Hinkle66-70-69=205−5
T4Keith Fergus66-70-70=206−4
T4Mark Hayes66-71-69=206−4
T4Tom Watson71-68-67=206−4
7Craig Stadler73-67-69=209−1
T8Mike Morley73-68-69=210E
T8Lee Trevino68-73-69=210E
T10Bruce Devlin71-70-70=211+1
T10Hubert Green73-73-65=211+1
T10Jay Haas67-74-70=211+1
T10Peter Jacobsen70-69-72=211+1
T10Pat McGowan69-69-73=211+1
T10Mike Reid69-67-75=211+1
T10Bill Rogers69-72-70=211+1

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Final round

Sunday, June 15, 1980
PlacePlayerCountryScoreTo parMoney
1Jack Nicklaus63-71-70-68=272−855,000
2Isao Aoki68-68-68-70=274−629,500
T3Keith Fergus66-70-70-70=276−417,400
T3Lon Hinkle66-70-69-71=276−417,400
T3Tom Watson71-68-67-70=276−417,400
T6Mark Hayes66-71-69-74=280E11,950
T6Mike Reid69-67-75-69=280E11,950
T8Hale Irwin70-70-73-69=282+28,050
T8Mike Morley73-68-69-72=282+28,050
T8Andy North68-75-72-67=282+28,050
T8Ed Sneed72-70-70-70=282+28,050

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Amateurs: Gary Hallberg, Bobby Clampett.

Scorecard

Final round
Hole123456789101112131415161718
Par444344443443444355
Nicklaus−6−6−7−6−6−6−5−5−5−6−6−6−6−6−6−6−7−8
Aoki−6−5−5−4−4−4−3−4−3−4−4−4−4−4−4−4−5−6
Fergus−4−4−3−4−4−4−5−5−5−4−4−4−4−4−4−4−3−4
Hinkle−5−5−5−4−4−3−3−3−3−3−3−3−3−3−3−3−3−4
Watson−3−4−4−4−4−4−4−4−3−2−2−2−2−2−2−3−3−4
Hayes−3−3−3−2−2−2−1−1E−1EEEEEEEE
Reid+1+2+2+3+3+3+3+3+3+2+2+2+2+1+1+1EE

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par
BirdieBogey

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