Mark Hayes
Summary
Near misses
- 1972 U.S. Amateur Charlotte Country Club · runner-up to Vinny Giles · 285
- 1977 The Open Turnberry (Ailsa Course) · finished T9 · 284 (+4)
Ryder Cup
1 Cups, 3 matches: 1 won, 2 lost, 0 halved, 1 points. Foursomes 0-1-0, four-ball 0-1-0, singles 1-0-0.
- 1979 The Greenbrier (Greenbrier Course) USA · USA won 17–11 · 1-2-0, 1 point · replacement
Rivals
Ryder Cup partners
Ryder Cup opponents
Next in the chain: Fuzzy Zoeller's rivals →
Results by championship
Best day
1979 Ryder Cup
The Greenbrier (Greenbrier Course) · USA won 17–11 · 1-2-0, 1 points
Chosen by rule: his best Ryder Cup by points. Year page: 1979.
Career line, 1972–1979
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- Runner-up
- Top 10
- Ryder Cup, USA
Mark Hayes was born in 1949 in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Hayes was runner-up at the 1972 U.S. Amateur. Hayes played in 1 Ryder Cup for USA (1979), winning 1, losing 2 and halving 0 of 3 matches for 1 point.
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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.
- 1972 U.S. Amateur Charlotte Country Club · runner-up to Vinny Giles · 285
- 1977 The Open Turnberry (Ailsa Course) · finished T9 · 284 (+4)
Ryder Cup
Hayes played 1 Ryder Cups for USA: 3 matches, 1 won, 2 lost, 0 halved, 1 points (33.3% of those available). By format: foursomes 0-1-0, four-ball 0-1-0, singles 1-0-0 (won-lost-halved).
- 1979 The Greenbrier (Greenbrier Course) USA · USA won 17–11 · 1-2-0, 1 point · replacement
Partners, with matches played together: Fuzzy Zoeller (1), Lee Elder (1).
Sources
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.