The Open Championship 1979 — leaderboard and results
1979-07-18 to 1979-07-21 · Royal Lytham & St. Anne's · Major championship
| Pos | Player | To par | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 | Prize money |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Seve Ballesteros | -1 | 73 | 65 | 75 | 70 | |
| T2 | Ben Crenshaw | +2 | 72 | 71 | 72 | 71 | |
| T2 | Jack Nicklaus | +2 | 72 | 69 | 73 | 72 | |
| 4 | Mark James | +3 | 76 | 69 | 69 | 73 | |
| 5 | Rodger Davis | +4 | 75 | 70 | 70 | 73 | |
| 6 | Hale Irwin | +5 | 68 | 68 | 75 | 78 | |
| T7 | Bob Byman | +7 | 73 | 70 | 72 | 76 | |
| T7 | Graham Marsh | +7 | 74 | 68 | 75 | 74 | |
| T7 | Isao Aoki | +7 | 70 | 74 | 72 | 75 | |
| T10 | Bob Charles | +8 | 78 | 72 | 70 | 72 | |
| T10 | Greg Norman | +8 | 73 | 71 | 72 | 76 | |
| T10 | Masashi Jumbo Ozaki | +8 | 75 | 69 | 75 | 73 | |
| T13 | John O'Leary | +9 | 73 | 73 | 74 | 73 | |
| T13 | Simon Owen | +9 | 75 | 76 | 74 | 68 | |
| T13 | Terry Gale | +9 | 71 | 74 | 75 | 73 | |
| T13 | Wally Armstrong | +9 | 74 | 74 | 73 | 72 | |
| T17 | Lee Trevino | +10 | 71 | 73 | 74 | 76 | |
| T17 | Peter McEvoy | +10 | 71 | 74 | 72 | 77 | |
| T19 | Gary Player | +11 | 77 | 74 | 69 | 75 | |
| T19 | Ken Brown | +11 | 72 | 71 | 75 | 77 | |
| T19 | Orville Moody | +11 | 71 | 74 | 76 | 74 | |
| T19 | Sandy Lyle | +11 | 74 | 76 | 75 | 70 | |
| T24 | Tony Jacklin | +12 | 73 | 74 | 76 | 73 | |
| T24 | Toru Nakamura | +12 | 77 | 75 | 67 | 77 | |
| T26 | Ed Sneed | +13 | 76 | 75 | 70 | 76 | |
| T26 | Jerry Pate | +13 | 69 | 74 | 76 | 78 | |
| T26 | Peter Thomson | +13 | 76 | 75 | 72 | 74 | |
| T26 | Tom Watson | +13 | 72 | 68 | 76 | 81 | |
| T30 | Armando Saavedra | +14 | 76 | 76 | 73 | 73 | |
| T30 | Bill Longmuir | +14 | 65 | 74 | 77 | 82 | |
| T30 | Bobby Verwey | +14 | 75 | 77 | 74 | 72 | |
| T30 | Mark Hayes | +14 | 75 | 75 | 77 | 71 | |
| T30 | Simon Hobday | +14 | 75 | 77 | 71 | 75 | |
| T30 | Tom Kite | +14 | 73 | 74 | 77 | 74 | |
| T36 | Christy O'Connor | +15 | 79 | 73 | 71 | 76 | |
| T36 | Lee Elder | +15 | 75 | 72 | 76 | 76 | |
| T36 | Michael King | +15 | 75 | 70 | 73 | 81 | |
| T36 | Peter Cowen | +15 | 79 | 72 | 72 | 76 | |
| T36 | Raymond Floyd | +15 | 76 | 73 | 71 | 79 | |
| T41 | Clark Dennis | +16 | 72 | 69 | 76 | 83 | |
| T41 | Denis Watson | +16 | 75 | 70 | 76 | 79 | |
| T41 | Hubert Green | +16 | 77 | 71 | 73 | 79 | |
| T41 | Hugh Baiocchi | +16 | 72 | 73 | 78 | 77 | |
| T41 | John Schroeder | +16 | 74 | 75 | 72 | 79 | |
| T41 | Martin Foster | +16 | 77 | 75 | 74 | 74 | |
| T41 | Noel Ratcliffe | +16 | 79 | 73 | 72 | 76 | |
| T41 | Peter Oosterhuis | +16 | 75 | 74 | 73 | 78 | |
| T41 | Philippe Toussaint | +16 | 76 | 75 | 74 | 75 | |
| T50 | Brian Barnes | +17 | 78 | 71 | 77 | 75 | |
| T50 | Carl Mason | +17 | 77 | 72 | 76 | 76 | |
| T50 | DeWitt Weaver | +17 | 73 | 71 | 80 | 77 | |
| T50 | Garry Cullen | +17 | 72 | 74 | 77 | 78 | |
| T54 | Geoff Parslow | +18 | 75 | 75 | 76 | 76 | |
| T54 | Ian Richardson | +18 | 75 | 73 | 77 | 77 | |
| T54 | Kosaku Shimada | +18 | 75 | 74 | 75 | 78 | |
| T57 | Guy Wolstenholme | +19 | 77 | 75 | 71 | 80 | |
| T57 | Jack Newton | +19 | 76 | 73 | 78 | 76 | |
| T57 | Johnny Miller | +19 | 77 | 73 | 77 | 76 | |
| T57 | Yoshitaka Yamamoto | +19 | 76 | 74 | 77 | 76 | |
| 61 | Robin Fyfe | +23 | 74 | 73 | 79 | 81 | |
| CUT | Adan Sowa | +15 | 80 | 77 | |||
| CUT | Alan Mew | +16 | 77 | 81 | |||
| CUT | Andrew Bownes | +21 | 82 | 81 | |||
| CUT | Andy North | +14 | 82 | 74 | |||
| CUT | Antonio Garrido | +14 | 80 | 76 | |||
| CUT | Battista Maestroni | +35 | 87 | 90 | |||
| CUT | Bernard Gallacher | +13 | 77 | 78 | |||
| CUT | Bill Murray | +20 | 80 | 82 | |||
| CUT | Bob Shearer | +12 | 80 | 74 | |||
| CUT | Brian Huggett | +13 | 79 | 76 | |||
| CUT | Brian Jones | +16 | 76 | 74 | 79 | ||
| CUT | Brian Waites | +16 | 76 | 82 | |||
| CUT | Dale Hayes | +11 | 76 | 77 | |||
| CUT | Dave Regan | +16 | 81 | 77 | |||
| CUT | David Feherty | +20 | 76 | 75 | 82 | ||
| CUT | David Ingram | +17 | 74 | 77 | 79 | ||
| CUT | David Jagger | +14 | 78 | 78 | |||
| CUT | David Jones | +12 | 78 | 76 | |||
| CUT | David Russell | +21 | 81 | 82 | |||
| CUT | David Thorp | +19 | 74 | 74 | 84 | ||
| CUT | David Watkinson | +13 | 79 | 76 | |||
| CUT | David Whelan | +23 | 86 | 79 | |||
| CUT | Denis Durnian | +15 | 76 | 81 | |||
| CUT | Eamonn Darcy | +13 | 83 | 72 | |||
| CUT | Ewen Murray | +15 | 77 | 75 | 76 | ||
| CUT | Fuzzy Zoeller | +16 | 78 | 72 | 79 | ||
| CUT | Garry Harvey | +20 | 82 | 80 | |||
| CUT | Gary Hallberg | +14 | 78 | 78 | |||
| CUT | Gavan Levenson | +14 | 80 | 76 | |||
| CUT | Gil Morgan | +16 | 76 | 76 | 77 | ||
| CUT | Gordon Brand Jr | +15 | 75 | 77 | 76 | ||
| CUT | Guy Hunt | +16 | 74 | 78 | 77 | ||
| CUT | Howard Clark | +17 | 83 | 76 | |||
| CUT | Hsi Chuen Lu | +15 | 78 | 79 | |||
| CUT | Ian Mosey | +11 | 75 | 78 | |||
| CUT | James Edman | +20 | 80 | 82 | |||
| CUT | Jeremy Bennett | +17 | 80 | 79 | |||
| CUT | Jim Rhodes | +13 | 78 | 77 | |||
| CUT | Jimmy Martin | +14 | 78 | 78 | |||
| CUT | Joe Higgins | +17 | 77 | 75 | 78 | ||
| CUT | John Benda | +20 | 82 | 80 | |||
| CUT | John Bland | +16 | 77 | 75 | 77 | ||
| CUT | John Fowler | +15 | 80 | 77 | |||
| CUT | John Hay | +15 | 75 | 77 | 76 | ||
| CUT | John Morgan | +15 | 77 | 80 | |||
| CUT | JoJi Yokoi | +16 | 76 | 82 | |||
| CUT | Juan Anglada | +18 | 73 | 76 | 82 | ||
| CUT | Kim Dabson | +16 | 78 | 73 | 78 | ||
| CUT | Lon Hinkle | +11 | 75 | 78 | |||
| CUT | Malcolm Gregson | +12 | 76 | 78 | |||
| CUT | Manuel Ballesteros Snr | +17 | 74 | 76 | 80 | ||
| CUT | Manuel Pinero | +14 | 77 | 79 | |||
| CUT | Marc Farry | +14 | 77 | 79 | |||
| CUT | Maurice Bembridge | +16 | 83 | 75 | |||
| CUT | Michael Cahill | +20 | 73 | 75 | 85 | ||
| CUT | Mikael Krantz | +19 | 83 | 78 | |||
| CUT | Mike Ferguson | +16 | 78 | 80 | |||
| WD | Neil Coles | — | |||||
| CUT | Nick Job | +17 | 82 | 77 | |||
| CUT | Osamu Hatano | +16 | 79 | 79 | |||
| CUT | Paul Hoad | +15 | 77 | 80 | |||
| CUT | Peter Barber | +16 | 78 | 80 | |||
| CUT | Peter Butler | +18 | 74 | 78 | 79 | ||
| CUT | Peter Dawson | +15 | 76 | 74 | 78 | ||
| CUT | Peter Highmoor | +19 | 85 | 76 | |||
| CUT | Peter Mitchell | +18 | 83 | 77 | |||
| CUT | Peter Senior | +15 | 75 | 76 | 77 | ||
| CUT | Peter Tupling | +15 | 79 | 78 | |||
| CUT | Philip Harrison | +20 | 82 | 80 | |||
| CUT | Philip Morley | +23 | 83 | 82 | |||
| CUT | R.W. Guy | +20 | 80 | 82 | |||
| CUT | Roberto De Vicenzo | +19 | 79 | 82 | |||
| CUT | Robin Mann | +12 | 79 | 75 | |||
| CUT | Roger Fidler | +18 | 80 | 80 | |||
| CUT | Ron Wood | +25 | 83 | 84 | |||
| CUT | Sam Torrance | +11 | 75 | 78 | |||
| CUT | Scott Myers | +18 | 85 | 75 | |||
| CUT | Stephen Rolley | +18 | 80 | 80 | |||
| CUT | Steven Laws | +20 | 82 | 80 | |||
| CUT | Terry Healy | +16 | 82 | 76 | |||
| CUT | Tom Melville | +15 | 78 | 79 | |||
| CUT | Tom Weiskopf | +12 | 79 | 75 | |||
| CUT | Tommy Horton | +17 | 76 | 75 | 79 | ||
| CUT | Tony Charnley | +12 | 76 | 78 | |||
| CUT | Tony Minshall | +17 | 79 | 80 | |||
| CUT | Tsuneyuki Nakajima | +12 | 79 | 75 | |||
| CUT | Vicente Fernandez | +12 | 75 | 79 | |||
| CUT | Warren Humphreys | +12 | 80 | 74 | |||
| CUT | Wayne Grady | +14 | 75 | 81 | |||
| CUT | Wayne Player | +19 | 75 | 75 | 82 | ||
| CUT | William Milne | +11 | 81 | 72 |
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