The 1980 Masters Tournament was the 44th Masters Tournament, held April 10–13 at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia.

Seve Ballesteros, age 23, won his first Masters and second major championship title, four strokes ahead of runners-up Jack Newton and Gibby Gilbert. Ballesteros had a seven stroke lead after 54 holes and extended it to ten strokes after the front nine of the final round at 16-under-par, eyeing the Masters record of 271 (−17) set by Jack Nicklaus in 1965 (and equaled by Raymond Floyd in 1976). A new record (of 270 or lower) was to be rewarded with a $50,000 bonus from Golf magazine. An hour later, after he found the water at 12 and 13 at Amen Corner, the lead had been reduced to two. Ballesteros regrouped with a birdie at 15 and parred the rest to shoot even-par 72 for the round and held on for the victory.

Well back in the field on Sunday, Nicklaus, age 40, was paired with Arnold Palmer, age 50, which drew large galleries. Palmer shot 69 to finish at even par and T24, Nicklaus had 73 to finish at 291 (+3) and T33. It was their first pairing at Augusta in five years and the first time Palmer had finished higher than Nicklaus there since 1967. Nicklaus regrouped and won two majors in 1980, the U.S. Open and the PGA Championship and was the runner-up the following April.

Ballesteros, of Spain, was the first winner of the Masters from Europe, and won a second green jacket in 1983.

This was the final Masters with Bermuda and ryegrass greens, which were replaced with bentgrass following this tournament.

Field 1. Masters champions Tommy Aaron, George Archer, Gay Brewer, Billy Casper, Charles Coody, Raymond Floyd (8,11), Doug Ford, Bob Goalby, Jack Nicklaus (3,4,8,9), Arnold Palmer, Gary Player (8,9), Sam Snead, Art Wall Jr., Tom Watson (3,8,11), Fuzzy Zoeller (8,12)

Jack Burke Jr., Jimmy Demaret, Ralph Guldahl, Claude Harmon, Ben Hogan, Herman Keiser, Cary Middlecoff, Byron Nelson, Henry Picard, and Gene Sarazen did not play.

The following categories only apply to Americans

2. U.S. Open champions (last five years) Lou Graham (8,11), Hubert Green (8,11,12), Hale Irwin (8,9,12), Andy North (8,9), Jerry Pate (9,10)

3. The Open champions (last five years) Johnny Miller (11)

4. PGA champions (last five years) John Mahaffey (12), Dave Stockton, Lanny Wadkins (8,12)

5. 1979 U.S. Amateur semi-finalists Cecil Ingram III (a), Mark O'Meara (6,a), Joey Rassett (a)

John Cook (6) forfeited his exemption by turning professional.

6. Previous two U.S. Amateur and Amateur champions Jay Sigel (7,a)

7. Members of the 1979 U.S. Walker Cup team Doug Clarke (a), Doug Fischesser (a), Mike Gove (a), Jim Holtgrieve (a), Griff Moody (a), Hal Sutton (a), Marty West (a)

Scott Hoch and Mike Peck forfeited their exemptions by turning professional.

8. Top 24 players and ties from the 1979 Masters Tournament Miller Barber, Bobby Clampett (a), Lee Elder (9,12), Joe Inman, Tom Kite (12), Billy Kratzert, Bruce Lietzke, Gene Littler, Artie McNickle, Jim Simons (9), J. C. Snead, Ed Sneed (9), Craig Stadler (11), Leonard Thompson, Lee Trevino (11,12)

9. Top 16 players and ties from the 1979 U.S. Open Ben Crenshaw (10,11), Keith Fergus, Bob Gilder, Larry Nelson (11,12), Calvin Peete (11), Tom Purtzer, Bill Rogers, Tom Weiskopf

10. Top eight players and ties from 1979 PGA Championship Rex Caldwell, Gibby Gilbert, Jay Haas, Don January, Ron Streck, Howard Twitty (11)

11. Winners of PGA Tour events since the previous Masters Andy Bean (12), George Burns, Jim Colbert, Dave Eichelberger, Ed Fiori, John Fought, Al Geiberger, Lon Hinkle, Wayne Levi, Jerry McGee, Jeff Mitchell, Gil Morgan (12), Jack Renner, Chi-Chi Rodríguez, Curtis Strange, Doug Tewell, D. A. Weibring

12. Members of the U.S. 1979 Ryder Cup team Mark Hayes

13. Foreign invitations Isao Aoki, Seve Ballesteros (3,8), David Graham (4,9,10), Mark James, Sandy Lyle, Graham Marsh (9), Peter McEvoy (6,a), Tōru Nakamura, Jack Newton (8)

Numbers in brackets indicate categories that the player would have qualified under had they been American.

Round summaries First round Thursday, April 10, 1980 PlacePlayerScoreTo parT1 Seve Ballesteros 66 −6 David Graham Jeff Mitchell T4 Hubert Green 68 −4 Jack Newton T6 Tom Kite 69 −3 Larry Nelson T8 Gibby Gilbert 70 −2 Artie McNickle Andy North Jim Simons Ed Sneed Source:

Second round Friday, April 11, 1980 PlacePlayerScoreTo par1 Seve Ballesteros 66-69=135 −9 T2 Rex Caldwell 73-66=139 −5 David Graham 66-73=139 T4 Tom Kite 69-71=140 −4 Jerry Pate 72-68=140 Jim Simons 70-70=140 Ed Sneed 70-70=140 Doug Tewell 71-69=140 T9 Ed Fiori 71-70=141 −3 Jeff Mitchell 66-75=141 Larry Nelson 69-72=141 Source:

Third round Saturday, April 12, 1980 PlacePlayerScoreTo par1 Seve Ballesteros 66-69-68=203 −13 2 Ed Fiori 71-70-69=210 −6 T3 David Graham 66-73-72=211 −5 Jack Newton 68-74-69=211 Andy North 70-72-69=211 J. C. Snead 73-69-69=211T7 Rex Caldwell 73-66-73=212 −4 Jim Colbert 72-70-70=212 Gibby Gilbert 70-74-68=212 Jim Simons 70-70-72=212 Fuzzy Zoeller 72-70-70=212 Source:

Final round Sunday, April 13, 1980

Final leaderboard Champion Silver Cup winner (low amateur)(a) = amateur(c) = past champion Top 10PlacePlayerScoreTo parMoney (US$)1 Seve Ballesteros 66-69-68-72=275 −13 55,000T2 Gibby Gilbert 70-74-68-67=279 −9 30,500 Jack Newton 68-74-69-68=2794 Hubert Green 68-74-71-67=280 −8 15,7505 David Graham 66-73-72-70=281 −7 13,200T6 Ben Crenshaw 76-70-68-69=283 −5 9,958 Ed Fiori 71-70-69-73=283 Tom Kite 69-71-74-69=283 Larry Nelson 69-72-73-69=283 Jerry Pate 72-68-76-67=283 Gary Player (c) 71-71-71-70=283 Leaderboard below the top 10PlacePlayerScoreTo parMoney ($)T12 Andy Bean 74-72-68-70=284 −4 7,250 Tom Watson (c) 73-69-71-71=284T14 Jim Colbert 72-70-70-73=285 −3 5,917 Jack Renner 72-70-72-71=285 J. C. Snead 73-69-69-74=285T17 Raymond Floyd (c) 75-70-74-67=286 −2 5,075 Jay Haas 72-74-70-70=286T19 Billy Kratzert 73-69-72-73=287 −1 3,990 Gil Morgan 74-71-75-67=287 Calvin Peete 73-71-76-67=287 Jim Simons 70-70-72-75=287 Fuzzy Zoeller (c) 72-70-70-75=287T24 Andy North 70-72-69-77=288 E 3,025 Arnold Palmer (c) 73-73-73-69=288T26 Keith Fergus 72-71-72-74=289 +1 2,430 Lou Graham 71-74-71-73=289 Jay Sigel (a) 71-71-73-74=289 0 Craig Stadler 74-70-72-73=289 2,430 Dave Stockton 74-70-76-69=289 Lee Trevino 74-71-70-74=28932 Tom Purtzer 72-71-74-73=290 +2 2,150T33 John Fought 74-72-74-71=291 +3 1,860 Joe Inman 74-70-75-72=291 Graham Marsh 71-72-72-76=291 Jack Nicklaus (c) 74-71-73-73=291 Bill Rogers 73-71-76-71=291T38 Rex Caldwell 73-66-73-80=292 +4 1,525 Charles Coody (c) 72-73-71-76=292 Johnny Miller 74-72-71-75=292 Jeff Mitchell 66-75-75-76=292 Doug Tewell 71-69-79-73=292 Howard Twitty 72-72-77-71=292T44 Jim Holtgrieve (a) 74-72-77-70=293 +5 0 John Mahaffey 75-70-73-75=293 1,500 Chi-Chi Rodríguez 74-72-71-76=293 Ed Sneed 70-70-79-74=29348 Sandy Lyle 76-70-70-78=294 +6 1,50049 Gene Littler 72-72-77-75=296 +8 1,50050 Bobby Clampett (a) 72-71-79-75=297 +9 051 Art Wall Jr. (c) 73-73-77-77=300 +12 1,50052 Hal Sutton (a) 73-73-82-73=301 +13 0CUT George Archer (c) 77-70=147 +3 George Burns 77-70=147 Dave Eichelberger 75-72=147 Bob Gilder 76-71=147 Hale Irwin 74-73=147 Don January 75-72=147 Wayne Levi 76-71=147 Joey Rassett (a) 73-74=147 Curtis Strange 77-70=147 Miller Barber 76-72=148 +4 Mark James 74-74=148 Ron Streck 75-73=148 Leonard Thompson 75-73=148 Cecil Ingram III (a) 74-75=149 +5 Artie McNickle 70-79=149 Tommy Aaron (c) 76-74=150 +6 Mark Hayes 74-76=150 Bruce Lietzke 81-69=150 Lanny Wadkins 76-75=151 +7 D. A. Weibring 77-74=151 Doug Ford (c) 77-75=152 +8 Al Geiberger 77-75=152 Mike Gove (a) 78-74=152 Jerry McGee 82-70=152 Tōru Nakamura 81-71=152 Gay Brewer (c) 82-71=153 +9 Lee Elder 76-77=153 Bob Goalby (c) 75-78=153 Isao Aoki 77-77=154 +10 Billy Casper (c) 77-77=154 Sam Snead (c) 77-77=154 Doug Fischesser (a) 78-77=155 +11 Peter McEvoy (a) 79-76=155 Griff Moody (a) 79-76=155 Marty West (a) 82-78=160 +16 Mark O'Meara (a) 80-81=161 +17 Tom Weiskopf 85-79=164 +20 Doug Clarke (a) 89-85=174 +30WD Lon Hinkle 78 +6

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Scorecard Final round Hole  1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9   10  11  12  13  14 15161718Par454343454 443545344 Ballesteros −14−14−15−15−16−16−16−16−16−15−15−13−12−12−13−13−13−13 Gilbert −4−4−4−5−5−6−6−6−6−6−6−6−7−8−9−10−10−9 Newton −5−6−6−6−6−7−6−7−6−6−7−8−9−9−9−9−9−9 Green −3−4−5−5−5−5−5−6−6−5−5−4−5−5−7−7−8−8 Graham −5−5−5−5−5−5−5−5−4−4−4−5−6−6−7−7−7−7 Fiori −6−6−6−6−6−5−5−5−5−5−6−5−5−5−5−5−5−5 Snead −5−6−5−5−4−4−4−4−4−4−4−4−4−4−4−3−3−3 North −4−1−1−1−1−1−1−1+1+1+1+1+1E−1−1−1E Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par EagleBirdieBogeyDouble bogeyTriple bogey +

References

External links Masters.com – past winners Augusta.com – 1980 Masters leaderboard and scorecards