Arnold Palmer Invitational 1979 — leaderboard and results
1979-02-28 to 1979-03-04 · Bay Hill Club & Lodge, Bay Hill, FL, USA · Purse $250,000
| Pos | Player | To par | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 | Prize money |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bob Byman | -6 | 67 | 70 | 70 | 71 | |
| 2 | John Schroeder | -6 | 68 | 68 | 72 | 70 | |
| T3 | Andy Bean | -5 | 64 | 69 | 76 | 70 | |
| T3 | Bill Rogers | -5 | 67 | 69 | 74 | 69 | |
| T3 | Hale Irwin | -5 | 69 | 70 | 72 | 68 | |
| T6 | Alan Tapie | -1 | 70 | 71 | 72 | 70 | |
| T6 | David Edwards | -1 | 68 | 70 | 71 | 74 | |
| T6 | Grier Jones | -1 | 69 | 69 | 73 | 72 | |
| T6 | Jay Haas | -1 | 69 | 70 | 74 | 70 | |
| T6 | Jerry Pate | -1 | 68 | 68 | 77 | 70 | |
| T6 | Tom Watson | -1 | 72 | 68 | 71 | 72 | |
| T12 | Larry Ziegler | E | 73 | 72 | 70 | 69 | |
| T12 | Rex Caldwell | E | 70 | 70 | 68 | 76 | |
| T12 | Rik Massengale | E | 71 | 67 | 72 | 74 | |
| T15 | Andy North | +1 | 71 | 70 | 72 | 72 | |
| T15 | Charles Coody | +1 | 71 | 71 | 72 | 71 | |
| T15 | Fuzzy Zoeller | +1 | 71 | 70 | 69 | 75 | |
| T15 | Jim Colbert | +1 | 65 | 73 | 75 | 72 | |
| T15 | Joe Hager | +1 | 70 | 66 | 81 | 68 | |
| T15 | Joe Inman | +1 | 73 | 67 | 73 | 72 | |
| T15 | Tom Purtzer | +1 | 73 | 70 | 69 | 73 | |
| T22 | George Burns | +2 | 70 | 73 | 71 | 72 | |
| T22 | Wally Armstrong | +2 | 72 | 71 | 72 | 71 | |
| T24 | Ben Crenshaw | +3 | 74 | 71 | 67 | 75 | |
| T24 | Craig Stadler | +3 | 71 | 71 | 74 | 71 | |
| T24 | Don January | +3 | 70 | 71 | 72 | 74 | |
| T24 | Ed Sneed | +3 | 66 | 69 | 73 | 79 | |
| T24 | John Fought | +3 | 72 | 67 | 78 | 70 | |
| T24 | Larry Nelson | +3 | 72 | 66 | 75 | 74 | |
| T30 | Bobby Wadkins | +4 | 71 | 69 | 76 | 72 | |
| T30 | David Graham | +4 | 71 | 74 | 70 | 73 | |
| T30 | Hubert Green | +4 | 69 | 70 | 76 | 73 | |
| T30 | Jack Nicklaus | +4 | 68 | 70 | 72 | 78 | |
| T30 | Lanny Wadkins | +4 | 71 | 74 | 70 | 73 | |
| T30 | Mark Hayes | +4 | 75 | 70 | 71 | 72 | |
| T30 | Mike Hill | +4 | 72 | 71 | 74 | 71 | |
| T37 | Frank Beard | +5 | 69 | 69 | 74 | 77 | |
| T37 | J.C. Snead | +5 | 69 | 70 | 72 | 78 | |
| T37 | Mike Reid | +5 | 71 | 69 | 77 | 72 | |
| T37 | Phillip Hancock | +5 | 68 | 69 | 80 | 72 | |
| T37 | Sammy Rachels | +5 | 70 | 73 | 73 | 73 | |
| T42 | Gary McCord | +6 | 68 | 74 | 73 | 75 | |
| T42 | Leonard Thompson | +6 | 67 | 71 | 73 | 79 | |
| T42 | Mac McLendon | +6 | 68 | 77 | 72 | 73 | |
| T42 | Tom McGinnis | +6 | 69 | 73 | 72 | 76 | |
| T46 | Curtis Strange | +7 | 71 | 74 | 70 | 76 | |
| T46 | D.A. Weibring | +7 | 68 | 73 | 76 | 74 | |
| T46 | Howard Twitty | +7 | 72 | 73 | 77 | 69 | |
| T46 | Jim Nelford | +7 | 71 | 74 | 74 | 72 | |
| T50 | Bruce Fleisher | +8 | 72 | 72 | 74 | 74 | |
| T50 | Chi Chi Rodriguez | +8 | 70 | 75 | 73 | 74 | |
| T50 | Ed Fiori | +8 | 70 | 74 | 75 | 73 | |
| T50 | Joe Kunes | +8 | 71 | 72 | 73 | 76 | |
| T50 | Miller Barber | +8 | 74 | 71 | 76 | 71 | |
| T50 | Tommy Aaron | +8 | 69 | 75 | 75 | 73 | |
| T56 | Jerry Heard | +9 | 72 | 71 | 77 | 73 | |
| T56 | Jim Dent | +9 | 73 | 72 | 73 | 75 | |
| T56 | Lindy Miller | +9 | 72 | 73 | 73 | 75 | |
| 59 | Arnold Palmer | +10 | 70 | 74 | 70 | 80 | |
| T60 | Bill Sander | +11 | 75 | 66 | 78 | 76 | |
| T60 | Mark James | +11 | 72 | 69 | 77 | 77 | |
| T60 | Raymond Floyd | +11 | 66 | 73 | 79 | 77 | |
| T63 | Dan Sikes | +12 | 72 | 72 | 78 | 74 | |
| T63 | Dave Barr | +12 | 74 | 69 | 73 | 80 | |
| T65 | Bobby Nichols | +13 | 67 | 77 | 78 | 75 | |
| T65 | Lee Elder | +13 | 75 | 68 | 80 | 74 | |
| T67 | Ken Still | +14 | 68 | 76 | 79 | 75 | |
| T67 | Marty Fleckman | +14 | 72 | 72 | 76 | 78 | |
| T67 | Tim Simpson | +14 | 75 | 69 | 80 | 74 | |
| 70 | John Cook | +19 | 74 | 71 | 82 | 76 | |
| 71 | Jim Knoll | +28 | 73 | 72 | 80 | 87 | |
| CUT | Adolph Popp | +18 | 83 | 77 | |||
| DNQ | Al Besselink | — | |||||
| CUT | Allen Miller | +6 | 68 | 80 | |||
| CUT | Artie McNickle | +8 | 73 | 77 | |||
| CUT | Barry Jaeckel | +6 | 78 | 70 | |||
| CUT | Bill Calfee | +4 | 72 | 74 | |||
| CUT | Bill Garrett | +20 | 79 | 83 | |||
| CUT | Bill Robinson | +15 | 81 | 76 | |||
| CUT | Billy Kratzert | +7 | 74 | 75 | |||
| CUT | Bob Betley | +13 | 79 | 76 | |||
| CUT | Bob Duval | +9 | 74 | 77 | |||
| CUT | Bob Impaglia | +12 | 77 | 77 | |||
| CUT | Bob Lunn | +10 | 77 | 75 | |||
| CUT | Bob Mann | +4 | 75 | 71 | |||
| CUT | Bob Murphy | +5 | 72 | 75 | |||
| CUT | Brian Barnes | +4 | 73 | 73 | |||
| CUT | Buddy Gardner | +9 | 72 | 79 | |||
| CUT | Calvin Peete | +8 | 69 | 81 | |||
| CUT | Cesar Sanudo | +10 | 76 | 76 | |||
| CUT | Charles Sifford | +7 | 72 | 77 | |||
| CUT | Charlie Gibson | +7 | 73 | 76 | |||
| CUT | Dale Douglass | +7 | 73 | 76 | |||
| CUT | Dan Halldorson | +5 | 73 | 74 | |||
| CUT | Dave Eichelberger | +6 | 71 | 77 | |||
| CUT | Dean Refram | +5 | 72 | 75 | |||
| CUT | DeWitt Weaver | +4 | 79 | 67 | |||
| CUT | Don Iverson | +15 | 76 | 81 | |||
| DNQ | Don Pooley | — | |||||
| CUT | Doug Ford | +15 | 78 | 79 | |||
| DNQ | Doug Tewell | — | |||||
| CUT | Dow Finsterwald | +10 | 73 | 79 | |||
| CUT | Ed Byman | +13 | 79 | 76 | |||
| CUT | Ed Dougherty | +10 | 73 | 79 | |||
| CUT | Ed Sabo | +7 | 76 | 73 | |||
| CUT | Eddie Pearce | +7 | 76 | 73 | |||
| CUT | Frank Conner | +7 | 74 | 75 | |||
| CUT | Gary Koch | +6 | 74 | 74 | |||
| CUT | Gary Wintz | +11 | 71 | 82 | |||
| CUT | Gene Littler | +6 | 74 | 74 | |||
| CUT | George Johnson | +5 | 73 | 74 | |||
| CUT | Gibby Gilbert | +8 | 75 | 75 | |||
| CUT | Gordon Jones | +16 | 79 | 79 | |||
| CUT | Greg Powers | +6 | 73 | 75 | |||
| CUT | Howard Clark | +14 | 76 | 80 | |||
| CUT | Jack Fleck | +17 | 77 | 82 | |||
| CUT | Jeff Hewes | +8 | 74 | 76 | |||
| CUT | Jim King | +11 | 76 | 77 | |||
| CUT | Jim White | +9 | 75 | 76 | |||
| DNQ | John Adams | — | |||||
| CUT | John Lister | +6 | 75 | 73 | |||
| CUT | Julius Boros | +6 | 76 | 72 | |||
| CUT | Ken Brown | +7 | 74 | 75 | |||
| WD | Lee Trevino | +9 | 72 | 72 | 78 | ||
| CUT | Lon Hinkle | +12 | 71 | 83 | |||
| CUT | Lonnie Nielsen | +8 | 77 | 73 | |||
| CUT | Lou Graham | +10 | 79 | 73 | |||
| CUT | Mark Lye | +4 | 72 | 74 | |||
| DNQ | Mark McCumber | — | |||||
| CUT | Mason Rudolph | +7 | 72 | 77 | |||
| CUT | Michael Brannan | +5 | 69 | 78 | |||
| CUT | Mike Bodney | +10 | 74 | 78 | |||
| CUT | Mike Ford | +7 | 73 | 76 | |||
| CUT | Mike McCullough | +18 | 75 | 85 | |||
| WD | Pete Brown | +10 | 81 | ||||
| CUT | Randy Erskine | +6 | 72 | 76 | |||
| CUT | Richard Bassett | +12 | 78 | 76 | |||
| WD | Robert Donald | +7 | 78 | ||||
| CUT | Rod Curl | +7 | 73 | 76 | |||
| CUT | Roger Calvin | +5 | 72 | 75 | |||
| CUT | Roger Maltbie | +13 | 76 | 79 | |||
| CUT | Ronny Mobley | +11 | 74 | 79 | |||
| CUT | Sam Trahan | +9 | 76 | 75 | |||
| CUT | Steve Melnyk | +10 | 73 | 79 | |||
| CUT | Tom Jenkins | +4 | 76 | 70 | |||
| CUT | Tom Storey | +6 | 70 | 78 | |||
| CUT | Tommy Thomas | +10 | 78 | 74 | |||
| CUT | Tommy Valentine | +6 | 73 | 75 | |||
| CUT | Wayne Levi | +4 | 77 | 69 |
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