THE PLAYERS Championship 1980 — leaderboard and results
1980-03-19 to 1980-03-23 · Sawgrass CC · Purse $440,000
| Pos | Player | To par | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 | Prize money |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lee Trevino | -10 | 68 | 72 | 68 | 70 | |
| 2 | Ben Crenshaw | -9 | 71 | 73 | 69 | 66 | |
| T3 | Seve Ballesteros | -8 | 69 | 73 | 69 | 69 | |
| T3 | Tom Watson | -8 | 69 | 71 | 72 | 68 | |
| T5 | John Mahaffey | -6 | 70 | 71 | 72 | 69 | |
| T5 | Mike Reid | -6 | 70 | 72 | 72 | 68 | |
| T5 | Peter Jacobsen | -6 | 68 | 74 | 69 | 71 | |
| T8 | Dan Pohl | -5 | 73 | 72 | 69 | 69 | |
| T8 | Danny Edwards | -5 | 68 | 74 | 72 | 69 | |
| T8 | Gary Player | -5 | 70 | 71 | 69 | 73 | |
| T8 | Grier Jones | -5 | 74 | 69 | 72 | 68 | |
| T8 | Hubert Green | -5 | 72 | 71 | 66 | 74 | |
| T8 | Jay Haas | -5 | 72 | 73 | 67 | 71 | |
| T14 | Brad Bryant | -4 | 72 | 71 | 69 | 72 | |
| T14 | Charles Coody | -4 | 69 | 75 | 69 | 71 | |
| T14 | Don Pooley | -4 | 69 | 73 | 69 | 73 | |
| T14 | Hale Irwin | -4 | 67 | 72 | 73 | 72 | |
| T14 | Jack Nicklaus | -4 | 69 | 73 | 69 | 73 | |
| T14 | Jim Colbert | -4 | 71 | 73 | 69 | 71 | |
| T14 | Keith Fergus | -4 | 70 | 73 | 70 | 71 | |
| 21 | Curtis Strange | -3 | 68 | 71 | 71 | 75 | |
| T22 | Bill Calfee | -2 | 68 | 74 | 73 | 71 | |
| T22 | Dan Halldorson | -2 | 72 | 74 | 68 | 72 | |
| T24 | Bruce Fleisher | -1 | 71 | 73 | 71 | 72 | |
| T24 | Bruce Lietzke | -1 | 72 | 74 | 74 | 67 | |
| T24 | Fred Marti | -1 | 73 | 73 | 73 | 68 | |
| T24 | George Burns | -1 | 68 | 74 | 71 | 74 | |
| T24 | Mike McCullough | -1 | 71 | 76 | 68 | 72 | |
| T24 | Rik Massengale | -1 | 74 | 71 | 72 | 70 | |
| T24 | Steve Melnyk | -1 | 67 | 73 | 76 | 71 | |
| T31 | Bill Rogers | E | 69 | 77 | 71 | 71 | |
| T31 | Gibby Gilbert | E | 70 | 75 | 75 | 68 | |
| T31 | Gil Morgan | E | 70 | 78 | 71 | 69 | |
| T31 | Howard Twitty | E | 75 | 70 | 71 | 72 | |
| T31 | J.C. Snead | E | 70 | 71 | 73 | 74 | |
| T31 | Johnny Miller | E | 76 | 71 | 71 | 70 | |
| T31 | Mike Hill | E | 70 | 75 | 71 | 72 | |
| T31 | Tom Kite | E | 74 | 72 | 69 | 73 | |
| T39 | Bob Eastwood | +1 | 73 | 75 | 70 | 71 | |
| T39 | Lon Hinkle | +1 | 70 | 74 | 71 | 74 | |
| T41 | Chi Chi Rodriguez | +2 | 70 | 73 | 74 | 73 | |
| T41 | David Graham | +2 | 70 | 74 | 72 | 74 | |
| T41 | Jerry McGee | +2 | 71 | 75 | 71 | 73 | |
| T41 | Michael Brannan | +2 | 71 | 75 | 75 | 69 | |
| T45 | Dave Stockton | +3 | 73 | 70 | 74 | 74 | |
| T45 | Jim Thorpe | +3 | 72 | 73 | 71 | 75 | |
| T45 | Lanny Wadkins | +3 | 69 | 76 | 72 | 74 | |
| T45 | Mark Hayes | +3 | 70 | 75 | 75 | 71 | |
| T45 | Ron Streck | +3 | 68 | 77 | 70 | 76 | |
| T45 | Tim Simpson | +3 | 70 | 74 | 73 | 74 | |
| T51 | Alan Tapie | +4 | 72 | 75 | 72 | 73 | |
| T51 | Andy Bean | +4 | 71 | 73 | 76 | 72 | |
| T51 | Barney Thompson | +4 | 70 | 74 | 77 | 71 | |
| T51 | Scott Simpson | +4 | 71 | 74 | 77 | 70 | |
| T55 | Greg Powers | +5 | 72 | 69 | 78 | 74 | |
| T55 | Jack Newton | +5 | 73 | 75 | 72 | 73 | |
| T55 | Jeff Mitchell | +5 | 71 | 77 | 74 | 71 | |
| T55 | Leonard Thompson | +5 | 70 | 76 | 74 | 73 | |
| T55 | Tom Weiskopf | +5 | 73 | 73 | 74 | 73 | |
| T60 | Buddy Gardner | +6 | 70 | 74 | 77 | 73 | |
| T60 | Jim Nelford | +6 | 74 | 72 | 75 | 73 | |
| T60 | Joe Inman | +6 | 68 | 75 | 78 | 73 | |
| T60 | Lou Graham | +6 | 71 | 77 | 74 | 72 | |
| T64 | Bob Murphy | +7 | 73 | 75 | 77 | 70 | |
| T64 | D.A. Weibring | +7 | 73 | 73 | 75 | 74 | |
| T64 | Terry Mauney | +7 | 72 | 75 | 72 | 76 | |
| T67 | Craig Stadler | +8 | 73 | 74 | 70 | 79 | |
| T67 | Lee Elder | +8 | 73 | 73 | 76 | 74 | |
| T67 | Victor Regalado | +8 | 73 | 75 | 75 | 73 | |
| T70 | Calvin Peete | +9 | 73 | 72 | 77 | 75 | |
| T70 | Ed Sneed | +9 | 68 | 78 | 78 | 73 | |
| T70 | Rod Funseth | +9 | 70 | 76 | 76 | 75 | |
| T73 | John Fought | +10 | 72 | 75 | 77 | 74 | |
| T73 | Lonnie Nielsen | +10 | 71 | 73 | 75 | 79 | |
| T75 | Bob Smith | +11 | 72 | 76 | 78 | 73 | |
| T75 | Wally Armstrong | +11 | 72 | 76 | 73 | 78 | |
| 77 | Terry Diehl | +13 | 73 | 75 | 82 | 71 | |
| 78 | Mark Lye | +15 | 73 | 74 | 78 | 78 | |
| 79 | David Edwards | +19 | 75 | 73 | 80 | 79 | |
| CUT | Allen Miller | +12 | 73 | 83 | |||
| CUT | Andy North | +5 | 77 | 72 | |||
| WD | Artie McNickle | — | |||||
| CUT | Barry Jaeckel | +8 | 75 | 77 | |||
| CUT | Bill Sander | +13 | 72 | 85 | |||
| CUT | Billy Kratzert | +9 | 73 | 80 | |||
| CUT | Bob Byman | +9 | 72 | 81 | |||
| CUT | Bob Gilder | +8 | 77 | 75 | |||
| CUT | Bob Mann | +6 | 73 | 77 | |||
| CUT | Bob Shearer | +5 | 71 | 78 | |||
| CUT | Bob Zender | +10 | 79 | 75 | |||
| CUT | Bobby Wadkins | +5 | 70 | 79 | |||
| CUT | Bobby Walzel | +15 | 75 | 84 | |||
| CUT | Bruce Devlin | +6 | 74 | 76 | |||
| CUT | Bud Allin | +5 | 74 | 75 | |||
| CUT | Cesar Sanudo | +7 | 78 | 73 | |||
| CUT | Dana Quigley | +9 | 74 | 79 | |||
| CUT | Dave Eichelberger | +11 | 81 | 74 | |||
| CUT | Dave Hill | +9 | 72 | 81 | |||
| CUT | David Eger | +5 | 75 | 74 | |||
| CUT | Don Bies | +7 | 72 | 79 | |||
| CUT | Don January | +12 | 77 | 79 | |||
| CUT | Doug Tewell | +9 | 77 | 76 | |||
| CUT | Ed Dougherty | +6 | 75 | 75 | |||
| CUT | Eddie Pearce | +8 | 72 | 80 | |||
| CUT | Forrest Fezler | +10 | 77 | 77 | |||
| CUT | Frank Conner | +6 | 74 | 76 | |||
| CUT | Fuzzy Zoeller | +10 | 79 | 75 | |||
| CUT | Gary Koch | +8 | 77 | 75 | |||
| CUT | Gary McCord | +8 | 78 | 74 | |||
| CUT | Gene Littler | +6 | 69 | 81 | |||
| CUT | George Archer | +10 | 75 | 79 | |||
| CUT | George Cadle | +5 | 74 | 75 | |||
| CUT | Graham Marsh | +7 | 73 | 78 | |||
| CUT | Jack Renner | +7 | 76 | 75 | |||
| CUT | Jerry Pate | +5 | 72 | 77 | |||
| CUT | Jim Chancey | +9 | 74 | 79 | |||
| CUT | Jim Dent | +16 | 77 | 83 | |||
| CUT | Jim Simons | +7 | 70 | 81 | |||
| CUT | John Lister | +9 | 79 | 74 | |||
| CUT | John Schroeder | +10 | 76 | 78 | |||
| CUT | Ken Still | +6 | 78 | 72 | |||
| CUT | Kermit Zarley | +9 | 76 | 77 | |||
| DQ | Larry Nelson | — | |||||
| CUT | Larry Ziegler | +6 | 73 | 77 | |||
| CUT | Lindy Miller | +12 | 77 | 79 | |||
| CUT | Mark McCumber | +8 | 74 | 78 | |||
| CUT | Mark Pfeil | +7 | 74 | 77 | |||
| DQ | Mike Morley | — | |||||
| CUT | Mike Sullivan | +11 | 76 | 79 | |||
| CUT | Miller Barber | +8 | 75 | 77 | |||
| CUT | Morris Hatalsky | +8 | 78 | 74 | |||
| CUT | Orville Moody | +8 | 76 | 76 | |||
| CUT | Pat McGowan | +5 | 70 | 79 | |||
| CUT | Peter Oosterhuis | +8 | 77 | 75 | |||
| CUT | Phillip Hancock | +8 | 74 | 78 | |||
| CUT | Raymond Floyd | +5 | 73 | 76 | |||
| CUT | Rex Caldwell | +6 | 73 | 77 | |||
| CUT | Rod Curl | +5 | 69 | 80 | |||
| CUT | Sammy Rachels | +7 | 72 | 79 | |||
| CUT | Stan Lee | +10 | 74 | 80 | |||
| CUT | Tom Purtzer | +5 | 74 | 75 | |||
| CUT | Tommy Aaron | +6 | 75 | 75 | |||
| WD | Wayne Levi | — |
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