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Saturday 21 July 1979PGA TourYear in Review
Ballesteros wins the Open
Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club, Lytham St Annes, England · Wednesday 18 to Saturday 21 July 1979 · Seve Ballesteros’s win no. 2 on the PGA Tour · purse £155,000 GBP · dates from the Wikipedia infobox (18–21 July 1979)
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
- Ben Crenshaw USA · 286 1979 Open Championship - Wikipedia
- Jack Nicklaus USA · 286 1979 Open Championship - Wikipedia
152 started · cut +14, 61 made it
Same week
Men's major
The Open
Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club, Lytham St Annes
3 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Ben Crenshaw, Jack Nicklaus
Top 10
| Pos | Player | Rounds | Total | To par |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Seve Ballesteros | 73 · 65 · 75 · 70 | 283 | −1 |
| T2 | Ben Crenshaw | 72 · 71 · 72 · 71 | 286 | +2 |
| T2 | Jack Nicklaus | 72 · 69 · 73 · 72 | 286 | +2 |
| 4 | Mark James | 76 · 69 · 69 · 73 | 287 | +3 |
| 5 | Rodger Davis | 75 · 70 · 70 · 73 | 288 | +4 |
| 6 | Hale Irwin | 68 · 68 · 75 · 78 | 289 | +5 |
| T7 | Graham Marsh | 74 · 68 · 75 · 74 | 291 | +7 |
| T7 | Isao Aoki | 70 · 74 · 72 · 75 | 291 | +7 |
| T7 | Bob Byman | 73 · 70 · 72 · 76 | 291 | +7 |
| T10 | Bob Charles | 78 · 72 · 70 · 72 | 292 | +8 |
| T10 | Masashi Ozaki | 75 · 69 · 75 · 73 | 292 | +8 |
| T10 | Greg Norman | 73 · 71 · 72 · 76 | 292 | +8 |
The golfer
b. 1957-04-09, Pedrena, Spain; Spain; age 22 at the win (year page); 1st major (card's count)
What’s in the bag
No bag on file yet
From the papers
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