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1980 Eisenhower Trophy

Coordinates: 35°11′24″N 79°28′05″W / 35.190°N 79.468°W / 35.190; -79.468
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1980 Eisenhower Trophy
Tournament information
DatesOctober 8–11
LocationPinehurst, North Carolina
Course(s)Pinehurst Country Club
(No. 2 course)
Format72 holes stroke play
Statistics
Par72
Length6,960 yards (6,360 m)
Field39 teams
156 players
Champion
 United States
Jim Holtgrieve, Jay Sigel,
Hal Sutton & Bob Tway
848 (−16)
← 1978
1982 →

The 1980 Eisenhower Trophy took place October 8 to 11 on the No. 2 course at the Pinehurst Country Club in Pinehurst, North Carolina. It was the 12th World Amateur Team Championship for the Eisenhower Trophy and the second time the event had been held in the United States, after the 1960 event. The tournament was a 72-hole stroke play team event with 39 four-man teams. The best three scores for each round counted towards the team total.

United States won the Eisenhower Trophy for the eighth time, finishing 27 strokes ahead of the silver medalists, South Africa. Chinese Taipei took the bronze medal, nine strokes further behind, while Japan finished fourth. Hal Sutton had the lowest individual score, 12-under-par 276, six strokes better than any other player.

Teams

39 four-man teams contested the event.

The following table lists the players on the leading teams.[1]

Country Players
 Australia Tony Gresham, John Kelly, Jeff Senior, Peter Sweeney
 Canada Graham Cooke, Stu Hamilton, Greg Olson, Richard Zokol
 Chinese Taipei Chang Dong-liang, Chen Tze-chung, Wu Chun-lung, Yuan Ching-chi
 Great Britain
&  Ireland
Gordon Brand Jnr, Ian Hutcheon, Peter McEvoy, Ronan Rafferty
 Japan Tatsuhiko Asakawa, Masayuki Naito, Tetsuo Sakata, Fuminori Sano
 Mexico Rafael Alarcon, Ignacio de Leon, José Martínez, Carlos Peláez
 New Zealand Michael Barltrop, Geoff Clarke, Paul Hartstone, Colin Taylor
 South Africa Etienne Groenewald, Duncan Lindsay-Smith, Wayne Player, David Suddards
 Sweden Per Andersson, Anders Johnsson, Göran Lundquist, Jan Rube
 United States Jim Holtgrieve, Jay Sigel, Hal Sutton, Bob Tway

Scores

# Country Score To par
1  United States 211-211-217-209=848 −16
2  South Africa 219-216-218-222=875 +11
3  Chinese Taipei 219-221-221-223=884 +20
4  Japan 223-219-225-220=887 +23
T5  Australia 231-225-213-221=890 +26
 Canada 221-221-225-223=890
 Great Britain
&  Ireland
229-217-221-223=890
8  Sweden 230-221-223-220=894 +30
9  Mexico 221-224-228-226=899 +35
10  New Zealand 229-226-215-232=902 +38
11  Spain 230-224-224-226=904 +40
T12  Argentina 227-232-227-231=917 +53
 Italy 232-223-231-231=917
14  Philippines 229-231-231-232=923 +59
T15  Brazil 230-231-228-235=924 +60
 West Germany 236-230-220-238=924
17  France 229-233-229-235=926 +62
18  Colombia 240-229-225-233=927 +63
19  South Korea 223-245-227-234=929 +65
T20  Chile 236-233-234-232=935 +71
 India 235-226-233-241=935
 Netherlands 233-232-234-236=935
 Switzerland 241-232-229-233=935
 Zimbabwe 238-235-230-232=935
25  Hong Kong 244-229-232-239=944 +80
26  Belgium 240-232-234-239=945 +81
T27  Austria 240-233-237-237=947 +83
 Denmark 240-230-236-241=947
29  Venezuela 239-238-232-243=952 +88
30  Norway 237-240-235-241=953 +89
31  Fiji 247-239-242-243=971 +107
32  Bermuda 254-251-237-237=979 +115
33  Portugal 242-239-247-256=984 +120
34  Papua New Guinea 256-239-251-245=991 +127
35  Israel 257-252-243-250=1002 +138
36  Dominican Republic 251-245-253-254=1003 +139
37  Guatemala 260-249-248-252=1009 +145
38  El Salvador 255-257-266-265=1043 +179
39  Puerto Rico 274-258-273-272=1077 +213

Source:[1]

Individual leaders

There was no official recognition for the lowest individual scores.

# Player Country Score To par
1 Hal Sutton  United States 68-69-71-68=276 −12
2 Chen Tze-chung  Chinese Taipei 69-70-71-72=282 −6
3 Jim Holtgrieve  United States 72-71-72-70=285 −3
4 Ronan Rafferty  Great Britain
&  Ireland
72-70-71-73=286 −2
5 Bob Tway  United States 72-71-74-71=288 E
T6 Tetsuo Sakata  Japan 73-70-76-72=291 +3
Peter Sweeney  Australia 75-74-69-73=291
T8 Masayuki Naito  Japan 73-74-73-72=292 +4
David Suddards  South Africa 79-72-71-70=292
10 Anders Johnsson  Sweden 72-75-75-71=293 +5

Source:[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Record Book 1980 World Amateur Golf Team Championships" (PDF). World Amateur Golf Council. Retrieved 29 October 2018.

External links

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