Bruce Lietzke
Summary
Near misses
- 1981 The Open Royal St George's Golf Club · finished T6 · 285 (+5)
- 1991 PGA Championship Crooked Stick Golf Club · runner-up to John Daly · 279
Ryder Cup
1 Cups, 3 matches: 0 won, 2 lost, 1 halved, 0.5 points. Foursomes 0-1-0, four-ball 0-1-0, singles 0-0-1.
- 1981 Walton Heath Golf Club USA · USA won 18.5–9.5 · 0-2-1, 0.5 points · automatic
Rivals
Beat him
Ryder Cup partners
Ryder Cup opponents
Next in the chain: John Daly's rivals →
Results by championship
Career line, 1981–1991
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- Runner-up
- Top 10
- Ryder Cup, USA
Bruce Lietzke was born in 1951 in Kansas City, Kansas. Lietzke's best major finish was second, at the 1991 PGA Championship. Lietzke played in 1 Ryder Cup for USA (1981), winning 0, losing 2 and halving 1 of 3 matches for 0.5 points.
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The record
Near misses
Top-10 finishes are listed for The Open, the one championship with a full top 10 every year.
- 1981 The Open Royal St George's Golf Club · finished T6 · 285 (+5)
- 1991 PGA Championship Crooked Stick Golf Club · runner-up to John Daly · 279
Ryder Cup
Lietzke played 1 Ryder Cups for USA: 3 matches, 0 won, 2 lost, 1 halved, 0.5 points (16.7% of those available). By format: foursomes 0-1-0, four-ball 0-1-0, singles 0-0-1 (won-lost-halved). Vice-captain: 1999.
- 1981 Walton Heath Golf Club USA · USA won 18.5–9.5 · 0-2-1, 0.5 points · automatic
Partners, with matches played together: Bill Rogers (2).
Sources
Elsewhere: Wikipedia.
Every fact on this page comes from Golf Network News data sets compiled in October 2026 (Masters, PGA Championship, The Open, U.S. Women's Open, Ryder Cup, PGA Tour 2024–2026, major host sites, Champions Dinner menus, and the U.S. Open and state rooms). These are the sources those rows cite.