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The 1979 PGA Tour was the 64th season of the PGA Tour, the main professional golf tour in the United States. It was also the 11th season since separating from the ...
The 1979 PGA Championship was the 61st PGA Championship, played August 2–5 at Oakland Hills Country Club in Bloomfield Township, Michigan, a suburb northwest of Detroit. After a double-bogey on the 72nd hole, David Graham won the first of his two major titles on the third hole of a sudden-death playoff with Ben Crenshaw .
Player Notes 1 Tom Jones 2 Chip Beck: 3 Mike Peck T4 Bruce Douglass: Scott Hoch: Winner of 1977 Northeast Amateur: 6 Harry Taylor 7 Jon Chafee: T8 John Cook: Winner of 1978 U.S. Amateur
1979 PGA Championship; 1979 PGA of Japan Tour; 1979 PGA Tour; Fall 1979 PGA Tour Qualifying School graduates; Spring 1979 PGA Tour Qualifying School graduates; Fall 1978 PGA Tour Qualifying School graduates; Spring 1978 PGA Tour Qualifying School graduates
This is a list of the Spring 1979 PGA Tour Qualifying School graduates. The event was held at Pinehurst No. 6, a new course at the Pinehurst Resort. The course opened in March and the event was held three months later. [1] There were 150 players in the finals. [2] Top 25 players and anyone tied for 25th place would graduate onto the PGA Tour. [3]
The 1979 Tournament Players Championship was a golf tournament in Florida on the PGA Tour, held March 22–25 at Sawgrass Country Club in Ponte Vedra Beach, southeast of Jacksonville. The sixth Tournament Players Championship, it was the third at Sawgrass and Lanny Wadkins won in the wind at 283 (−5), five strokes ahead of runner-up Tom Watson.
The 1979 Masters Tournament was the 43rd Masters Tournament, held April 12–15 at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia. Fuzzy Zoeller won his only Masters, the first of his two major titles, with a birdie on the second hole of a playoff with Ed Sneed and Tom Watson . [ 2 ]
Fought played on the PGA Tour full-time from 1979–1985. He has a dozen top-10 finishes including two back-to-back wins in September 1979. He received the PGA Tour Rookie of the Year award in 1979. His best finish in a major was a solo 5th at the 1983 PGA Championship. [4] Injuries to his back and neck in the mid-1980s forced him to retire ...