Golf Network News
Sunday 13 April 1980Men’s majorsYear in Review
Ballesteros wins Masters
Augusta National Golf Club, Augusta, Georgia · Thursday 10 to Sunday 13 April 1980 · purse $359,949 · winner's share $55,000
The headline is set by GNN from the record. Reports from the papers of the day are below as they are found.
The weather
12 h 48 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 66° up at noon, and that night a waning crescent moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R123°/10°C · wind 17 km/h W, gusts 39 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R226°/8°C · wind 14 km/h ESE, gusts 23 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R322°/14°C · wind 20 km/h S, gusts 49 · 1.8 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R425°/16°C · wind 19 km/h SSE, gusts 58 · 12.3 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
The name over time
- Masters
1934–2026 in our record, 90 editions.
The ones it got away from
Runners-up and the shots that cost them: not yet researched.
, 52 (cut at 146) made it
Same week
Nothing else in our record that week.
Men's major
Masters
Augusta National Golf Club, Augusta, Georgia
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Gibby Gilbert, Jack Newton
The golfer
b. 1957-04-09, Pedrena, Spain; Spain; age 23 at the win (year page); 2nd 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