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Saturday 21 July 1979Men’s majorsYear in Review
Ballesteros wins the Open
Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club, Lytham St Annes, England · Wednesday 18 to Saturday 21 July 1979 · purse £155,000 · winner's share £15,000
The headline is set by GNN from the record. Reports from the papers of the day are below as they are found.
The weather
16 h 04 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 57° up at noon, and that night a waning crescent moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R117°/14°C · wind 32 km/h WNW, gusts 50 · 0.3 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R215°/13°C · wind 33 km/h WNW, gusts 49 · 0.6 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R314°/13°C · wind 32 km/h W, gusts 47 · 0.8 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R414°/12°C · wind 35 km/h WNW, gusts 58 · 1.8 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
The name over time
- The Open
1860–2026 in our record, 154 editions.
The ones it got away from
Runners-up and the shots that cost them: not yet researched.
152 started, 61 (cut at 152) made it
Same week
Nothing else in our record that week.
Men's major
The Open
Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club, Lytham St Annes
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Ben Crenshaw, Jack Nicklaus
The golfer
b. 1957-04-09, Pedrena, Spain; Spain; age 22 at the win (year page); 1st major (card's count)
Top 10
Not yet researched
What’s in the bag
No bag on file yet
From the papers
No clipping yet