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Sunday 22 July 1984PGA Tour · PGA European TourYear in Review
Ballesteros wins the Open
St Andrews Links, St Andrews, Scotland · Thursday 19 to Sunday 22 July 1984 · Seve Ballesteros’s win no. 23 on the PGA Tour · purse £425,000 GBP
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 26 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 54° up at noon, and that night a waning crescent moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R118°/12°C · wind 18 km/h SE, gusts 34 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R219°/12°C · wind 24 km/h ESE, gusts 42 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R317°/14°C · wind 18 km/h ESE, gusts 33 · 0.2 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R418°/13°C · wind 15 km/h SE, gusts 27 · 0 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
- Bernhard Langer FRG · 278tied second two strokes behind; 54-hole share of third with Ballesteros (Wikipedia event article) 1984 Open Championship - Wikipedia
- Tom Watson USA · 27854-hole co-leader and defending champion; bogeyed the 17th (Road) for a closing 73, ending his bid for a third straight Open (Wikipedia event article) 1984 Open Championship - Wikipedia
156 started · cut +4 (1st cut); +3 (2nd cut), 63 made it
Same week
Men's major
The Open
Old Course, St Andrews, St Andrews
4 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Bernhard Langer, Tom Watson
From the papers
Sports Illustrated
30 July 1984
It's great to win at St. Andrews, and I dedicate this to my mother, Carmen, who saw me win for the first time.
Sports Illustrated
30 July 1984 From the print archive
This time it was right. I aimed to the right of the bunker and tried not to hit it too hard. Too far is the road and the road is no good.
Sports Illustrated
30 July 1984
I knew I would have to pull off a couple of major miracles. And you don't do that too often at a major.
Sports Illustrated
30 July 1984
The minute it left the clubhead, I knew it was a bad shot.
Top 10
| Pos | Player | Rounds | Total | To par |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Seve Ballesteros | 69 · 68 · 70 · 69 | 276 | −12 |
| T2 | Bernhard Langer | 71 · 68 · 68 · 71 | 278 | −10 |
| T2 | Tom Watson | 71 · 68 · 66 · 73 | 278 | −10 |
| T4 | Fred Couples | 70 · 69 · 74 · 68 | 281 | −7 |
| T4 | Lanny Wadkins | 70 · 69 · 73 · 69 | 281 | −7 |
| T6 | Nick Faldo | 69 · 68 · 76 · 69 | 282 | −6 |
| T6 | Greg Norman | 67 · 74 · 74 · 67 | 282 | −6 |
| 8 | Mark McCumber | 74 · 67 · 72 · 70 | 283 | −5 |
| T9 | Hugh Baiocchi | 72 · 70 · 70 · 72 | 284 | −4 |
| T9 | Ian Baker-Finch | 68 · 66 · 71 · 79 | 284 | −4 |
| T9 | Graham Marsh | 70 · 74 · 73 · 67 | 284 | −4 |
| T9 | Ronan Rafferty | 74 · 72 · 67 · 71 | 284 | −4 |
| T9 | Sam Torrance | 74 · 74 · 66 · 70 | 284 | −4 |
The golfer
born 1957-04-09, Pedreña, Cantabria, Spain; ESP; turned pro 1974.
What’s in the bag
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