Arnold Palmer Invitational 1981 — leaderboard and results
1981-02-25 to 1981-03-01 · Bay Hill Club & Lodge, Bay Hill, FL, USA · Purse $300,000
| Pos | Player | To par | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 | Prize money |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Andy Bean | -18 | 68 | 62 | 67 | 69 | |
| 2 | Tom Watson | -11 | 64 | 66 | 70 | 73 | |
| 3 | Curtis Strange | -9 | 68 | 68 | 72 | 67 | |
| 4 | Mark O'Meara | -8 | 67 | 68 | 69 | 72 | |
| T5 | Brad Bryant | -7 | 70 | 73 | 67 | 67 | |
| T5 | Mick Soli | -7 | 69 | 70 | 67 | 71 | |
| T5 | Mike Donald | -7 | 72 | 68 | 66 | 71 | |
| 8 | Tom Purtzer | -6 | 68 | 69 | 72 | 69 | |
| T9 | Don Pooley | -5 | 72 | 63 | 72 | 72 | |
| T9 | Phillip Hancock | -5 | 71 | 69 | 73 | 66 | |
| T9 | Raymond Floyd | -5 | 73 | 68 | 68 | 70 | |
| 12 | Bobby Wadkins | -4 | 68 | 71 | 71 | 70 | |
| T13 | Bob Eastwood | -3 | 73 | 67 | 69 | 72 | |
| T13 | Ed Sneed | -3 | 71 | 69 | 70 | 71 | |
| T13 | Jerry Pate | -3 | 70 | 69 | 71 | 71 | |
| T13 | Steve Melnyk | -3 | 70 | 72 | 71 | 68 | |
| T17 | Bobby Clampett | -2 | 71 | 68 | 78 | 65 | |
| T17 | Chip Beck | -2 | 72 | 67 | 72 | 71 | |
| T17 | Greg Powers | -2 | 69 | 74 | 72 | 67 | |
| T17 | Hubert Green | -2 | 67 | 72 | 69 | 74 | |
| T17 | Joe Inman | -2 | 72 | 69 | 73 | 68 | |
| T22 | Bob Murphy | -1 | 68 | 71 | 70 | 74 | |
| T22 | Charles Coody | -1 | 69 | 69 | 75 | 70 | |
| T22 | Fuzzy Zoeller | -1 | 75 | 69 | 67 | 72 | |
| T22 | Gil Morgan | -1 | 69 | 73 | 69 | 72 | |
| T22 | Lee Trevino | -1 | 71 | 69 | 72 | 71 | |
| T22 | Tom Weiskopf | -1 | 70 | 71 | 72 | 70 | |
| T28 | Dave Eichelberger | E | 69 | 71 | 71 | 73 | |
| T28 | Gary Koch | E | 72 | 73 | 68 | 71 | |
| T30 | Dick Mast | +1 | 73 | 71 | 71 | 70 | |
| T30 | Vance Heafner | +1 | 70 | 69 | 72 | 74 | |
| T32 | D.A. Weibring | +2 | 72 | 73 | 67 | 74 | |
| T32 | Pat McGowan | +2 | 72 | 73 | 69 | 72 | |
| T32 | Tom Jenkins | +2 | 72 | 70 | 70 | 74 | |
| T35 | Ben Crenshaw | +3 | 69 | 76 | 74 | 68 | |
| T35 | Bruce Fleisher | +3 | 71 | 74 | 69 | 73 | |
| T35 | Jim Thorpe | +3 | 72 | 73 | 71 | 71 | |
| T35 | John Fought | +3 | 70 | 69 | 70 | 78 | |
| T35 | Lennie Clements | +3 | 72 | 73 | 73 | 69 | |
| T35 | Mark Rohde | +3 | 71 | 72 | 73 | 71 | |
| T35 | Michael King | +3 | 71 | 72 | 73 | 71 | |
| T42 | Bruce Douglass | +4 | 71 | 71 | 72 | 74 | |
| T42 | Craig Stadler | +4 | 69 | 71 | 74 | 74 | |
| T42 | Jim Chancey | +4 | 73 | 68 | 74 | 73 | |
| T42 | Jim Colbert | +4 | 78 | 65 | 69 | 76 | |
| T42 | Masashi Jumbo Ozaki | +4 | 71 | 74 | 72 | 71 | |
| T42 | Rex Caldwell | +4 | 71 | 71 | 70 | 76 | |
| T42 | Tom Storey | +4 | 71 | 71 | 71 | 75 | |
| T49 | Jack Renner | +5 | 72 | 72 | 74 | 71 | |
| T49 | Jim Nelford | +5 | 74 | 68 | 74 | 73 | |
| T49 | Mike Holland | +5 | 68 | 73 | 71 | 77 | |
| T52 | Alan Tapie | +6 | 74 | 69 | 75 | 72 | |
| T52 | Lance Ten Broeck | +6 | 71 | 72 | 72 | 75 | |
| T54 | Larry Nelson | +7 | 73 | 72 | 76 | 70 | |
| T54 | Scott Hoch | +7 | 70 | 72 | 72 | 77 | |
| T56 | Beau Baugh | +8 | 68 | 74 | 74 | 76 | |
| T56 | Calvin Peete | +8 | 72 | 72 | 75 | 73 | |
| T56 | Fred Couples | +8 | 71 | 72 | 74 | 75 | |
| T56 | Rod Nuckolls | +8 | 66 | 72 | 78 | 76 | |
| T56 | Woody Blackburn | +8 | 70 | 72 | 76 | 74 | |
| T61 | Barry Harwell | +9 | 74 | 70 | 73 | 76 | |
| T61 | Wally Armstrong | +9 | 72 | 72 | 76 | 73 | |
| T63 | Arnold Palmer | +10 | 73 | 72 | 73 | 76 | |
| T63 | Dan Frickey | +10 | 73 | 71 | 74 | 76 | |
| T65 | Bud Allin | +11 | 74 | 71 | 75 | 75 | |
| T65 | J.C. Snead | +11 | 69 | 74 | 76 | 76 | |
| T65 | Morris Hatalsky | +11 | 73 | 70 | 76 | 76 | |
| T65 | Tim Simpson | +11 | 75 | 70 | 73 | 77 | |
| 69 | Mike Peck | +12 | 72 | 69 | 79 | 76 | |
| 70 | Frank Conner | +13 | 71 | 74 | 76 | 76 | |
| 71 | Eddie Pearce | +17 | 74 | 71 | 74 | 82 | |
| 72 | Bob Ford | +20 | 73 | 72 | 78 | 81 | |
| DNQ | Allan Strange | — | |||||
| CUT | Allen Miller | +4 | 74 | 72 | |||
| DNQ | Art Jr Silvestrone | — | |||||
| DNQ | Art Silvestrone | — | |||||
| DNQ | Barney Thompson | — | |||||
| DNQ | Ben Duncan | — | |||||
| DNQ | Bill Britton | — | |||||
| CUT | Bill Calfee | +6 | 72 | 76 | |||
| DNQ | Bill Eissele | — | |||||
| DNQ | Bill Loeffler | — | |||||
| CUT | Bill Lytle | +13 | 76 | 79 | |||
| CUT | Bill Rogers | +4 | 72 | 74 | |||
| CUT | Bill Sander | +8 | 74 | 76 | |||
| CUT | Billy Kratzert | +6 | 77 | 71 | |||
| CUT | Bob Byman | +13 | 78 | 77 | |||
| CUT | Bobby Cole | +4 | 76 | 70 | |||
| DNQ | Bobby Mitchell | — | |||||
| CUT | Bobby Nichols | +8 | 76 | 74 | |||
| DNQ | Bobby Pancratz | — | |||||
| DNQ | Brent Murray | — | |||||
| CUT | Buddy Gardner | +10 | 78 | 74 | |||
| CUT | Butch Baird | +6 | 72 | 76 | |||
| CUT | Cesar Sanudo | +6 | 75 | 73 | |||
| DNQ | Charlie Gibson | — | |||||
| CUT | Chi Chi Rodriguez | +4 | 70 | 76 | |||
| CUT | Clint Doyle | +5 | 75 | 72 | |||
| DNQ | Craig Metz | — | |||||
| DNQ | Curtis Worley | — | |||||
| CUT | Dan Sikes | +10 | 73 | 79 | |||
| DNQ | Dana Quigley | — | |||||
| DNQ | Darrell Kestner | — | |||||
| DNQ | Dave Barr | — | |||||
| DNQ | Dave Fowler | — | |||||
| DNQ | David Eger | — | |||||
| CUT | David Graham | +4 | 75 | 71 | |||
| DNQ | David Lundstrom | — | |||||
| DQ | David Thore | — | |||||
| CUT | DeWitt Weaver | +6 | 73 | 75 | |||
| DNQ | Don Levin | — | |||||
| DNQ | Doug Campbell | — | |||||
| CUT | Doug Ford | +6 | 77 | 71 | |||
| CUT | Doug Johnson | +8 | 78 | 72 | |||
| CUT | Doug Sanders | +10 | 78 | 74 | |||
| CUT | Dow Finsterwald | +5 | 74 | 73 | |||
| CUT | Ed Dougherty | +9 | 78 | 73 | |||
| CUT | Ed Fiori | +11 | 76 | 77 | |||
| CUT | Ed Sabo | +5 | 76 | 71 | |||
| CUT | Forrest Fezler | +8 | 77 | 73 | |||
| DQ | Frank Beard | — | |||||
| CUT | Gary Hallberg | +8 | 70 | 80 | |||
| DNQ | Gary Hardin | — | |||||
| CUT | Gary McCord | +10 | 75 | 77 | |||
| DNQ | Gary Trivisonno | — | |||||
| CUT | Gary Wintz | +10 | 74 | 78 | |||
| CUT | George Burns | +5 | 73 | 74 | |||
| CUT | Grier Jones | +11 | 78 | 75 | |||
| CUT | Jack Ferenz | +5 | 74 | 73 | |||
| DNQ | Jack McConachie | — | |||||
| DQ | Jack Spradlin | — | |||||
| CUT | Jay Haas | +9 | 78 | 73 | |||
| DNQ | Jeff Hawkes | — | |||||
| DNQ | Jeff Hewes | — | |||||
| CUT | Jerry Heard | +10 | 73 | 79 | |||
| DNQ | Jim Barber | — | |||||
| DNQ | Jim Booros | — | |||||
| DNQ | Jim Sears | — | |||||
| DNQ | Jimmy Powell | — | |||||
| CUT | Joe Hager | +9 | 77 | 74 | |||
| CUT | John Adams | +6 | 76 | 72 | |||
| DNQ | John Calabria | — | |||||
| CUT | John Lister | +4 | 75 | 71 | |||
| DNQ | John Mazza | — | |||||
| DNQ | Jon Chaffee | — | |||||
| CUT | Keith Lyford | +7 | 73 | 76 | |||
| CUT | Ken Still | +6 | 76 | 72 | |||
| CUT | Leonard Thompson | +8 | 74 | 76 | |||
| DNQ | Lyn Lott | — | |||||
| CUT | Mac O'Grady | +6 | 74 | 74 | |||
| WD | Mark Lye | — | |||||
| DQ | Mason Rudolph | — | |||||
| CUT | Michael Brannan | +6 | 74 | 74 | |||
| DNQ | Mike Gove | — | |||||
| DNQ | Mike Harmon | — | |||||
| CUT | Mike Hill | +17 | 77 | 82 | |||
| DNQ | Mike Klein | — | |||||
| CUT | Mike Morley | +6 | 76 | 72 | |||
| CUT | Mike Nicolette | +4 | 72 | 74 | |||
| DNQ | Mike Preston | — | |||||
| DNQ | Mike Smith | — | |||||
| CUT | Mike Sullivan | +6 | 75 | 73 | |||
| CUT | Miller Barber | +6 | 72 | 76 | |||
| CUT | Nick Faldo | +11 | 72 | 81 | |||
| CUT | Pat Fitzsimons | +4 | 73 | 73 | |||
| DNQ | Pat Lindsey | — | |||||
| CUT | Paul Ryiz | +8 | 75 | 75 | |||
| CUT | Perry Arthur | +21 | 79 | 84 | |||
| CUT | Peter Oosterhuis | +9 | 77 | 74 | |||
| CUT | Peter Teravainen | +18 | 80 | 80 | |||
| CUT | R.W. Eaks | +13 | 81 | 74 | |||
| DNQ | Robert Seligman | — | |||||
| CUT | Ron Streck | +4 | 74 | 72 | |||
| DNQ | Sale Omohundro | — | |||||
| CUT | Sammy Rachels | +4 | 75 | 71 | |||
| DNQ | Scott Stegner | — | |||||
| DNQ | Scott Watkins | — | |||||
| DNQ | Skip Dunaway | — | |||||
| DNQ | Skip Tredway | — | |||||
| DNQ | Stanton Altgelt | — | |||||
| DNQ | Ted Goin | — | |||||
| CUT | Terry Mauney | +4 | 74 | 72 | |||
| DNQ | Thomas Gray | — | |||||
| DNQ | Tim Norris | — | |||||
| CUT | Tom Jones | +8 | 74 | 76 | |||
| DNQ | Tommy Aaron | — | |||||
| DNQ | Tommy Valentine | — | |||||
| CUT | Wayne Levi | +5 | 72 | 75 | |||
| DQ | Wren Lum | — |
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