1980 Eisenhower Trophy


The 1980 Eisenhower Trophy took place October 8 to 11 on the No. 2 course at the Pinehurst Country Club in Pinehurst, North Carolina. It was the 12th World Amateur Team Championship for the Eisenhower Trophy and the second time the event had been held in the United States, after the 1960 event. The tournament was a 72-hole stroke play team event with 39 four-man teams. The best three scores for each round counted towards the team total.
United States won the Eisenhower Trophy for the eighth time, finishing 27 strokes ahead of the silver medalists, South Africa. Chinese Taipei took the bronze medal, nine strokes further behind, while Japan finished fourth. Hal Sutton had the lowest individual score, 12-under-par 276, six strokes better than any other player.

Teams

39 four-man teams contested the event.
The following table lists the players on the leading teams.
CountryPlayers
Tony Gresham, John Kelly, Jeff Senior, Peter Sweeney
Graham Cooke, Stu Hamilton, Greg Olson, Richard Zokol
Chang Dong-liang, Chen Tze-chung, Wu Chun-lung, Yuan Ching-chi

& 		Gordon Brand Jnr, Ian Hutcheon, Peter McEvoy, Ronan Rafferty
Tatsuhiko Asakawa, Masayuki Naito, Tetsuo Sakata, Fuminori Sano
Rafael Alarcon, Ignacio de Leon, José Martínez, Carlos Peláez
Michael Barltrop, Geoff Clarke, Paul Hartstone, Colin Taylor
Etienne Groenewald, Duncan Lindsay-Smith, Wayne Player, David Suddards
Per Andersson, Anders Johnsson, Göran Lundquist, Jan Rube
Jim Holtgrieve, Jay Sigel, Hal Sutton, Bob Tway

Scores

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Individual leaders

There was no official recognition for the lowest individual scores.
#PlayerCountryScoreTo par
1Hal Sutton68-69-71-68=276−12
2Chen Tze-chung69-70-71-72=282−6
3Jim Holtgrieve72-71-72-70=285−3
4Ronan Rafferty
& 		72-70-71-73=286−2
5Bob Tway72-71-74-71=288E
T6Tetsuo Sakata73-70-76-72=291+3
T6Peter Sweeney75-74-69-73=291+3
T8Masayuki Naito73-74-73-72=292+4
T8David Suddards79-72-71-70=292+4
10Anders Johnsson72-75-75-71=293+5

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