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79th U.S. Open Championship

Inverness Country Club

Toledo, Ohio • United States

Jun 14 - 17, 1979

Purse

$310,200

Winner Share

$50,000

POS
Player
Total
R1
R2
R3
R4
To Par
Full Leaderboard
WON
Hale Irwin United States
284
74
68
67
75
E
2
Jerry Pate United States
286
71
74
69
72
2
3
Gary Player South Africa
286
73
73
72
68
2
T4
Larry Nelson United States
288
71
68
76
73
4
T4
Bill Rogers United States
288
71
72
73
72
4
T4
Tom Weiskopf United States
288
71
74
67
76
4
7
David Graham Australia
289
73
73
70
73
5
8
Tom Purtzer United States
290
70
69
75
76
6
T9
Keith Fergus United States
291
70
77
72
72
7
T9
Jack Nicklaus United States
291
74
77
72
68
7
T11
Ben Crenshaw United States
293
75
71
72
75
9
T11
Lee Elder United States
293
74
72
69
78
9
T11
Andy North United States
293
77
74
68
74
9
T11
Calvin Peete United States
293
72
75
71
75
9
T11
Ed Sneed United States
293
72
73
75
73
9
T16
Bob Gilder United States
294
77
70
69
78
10
T16
Graham Marsh Australia
294
77
71
72
74
10
T16
Jim Simons United States
294
74
74
78
68
10
T19
Al Geiberger United States
295
74
74
69
78
11
T19
Lee Trevino United States
295
77
73
73
72
11
T19
Lanny Wadkins United States
295
73
74
71
77
11
T19
Bobby Walzel United States
295
74
72
71
78
11
T19
D.A. Weibring United States
295
74
76
71
74
11
24
Hubert Green United States
296
74
77
73
72
12
T25
Andy Bean United States
297
70
76
71
80
13
T25
Lou Graham United States
297
70
75
77
75
13
T25
Wayne Levi United States
297
77
73
75
72
13
T25
Bob Murphy United States
297
72
79
69
77
13
T25
Bobby Nichols United States
297
76
75
71
75
13
T25
Mike Reid United States
297
74
75
74
74
13
T25
Bob E. Smith United States
297
77
71
69
80
13
T32
Dale Douglass United States
298
72
76
76
74
14
T32
Lynn Janson United States
298
77
71
77
73
14
T32
Chi Chi Rodriguez Puerto Rico
298
73
76
71
78
14
T32
Howard Twitty United States
298
73
78
71
76
14
T36
Isao Aoki Japan
299
73
77
76
73
15
T36
Jim Dent United States
299
75
76
75
73
15
T36
Billy Kratzert United States
299
77
73
73
76
15
T36
John Mahaffey United States
299
77
73
74
75
15
T36
Dave Stockton United States
299
75
70
78
76
15
T41
Jim Colbert United States
300
71
74
78
77
16
T41
Bruce Lietzke United States
300
74
77
73
76
16
T41
Jim Nelford
300
75
76
73
76
16
T41
Dana Quigley
300
71
78
74
77
16
T41
Jack Renner United States
300
76
75
75
74
16
T41
Larry Ziegler United States
300
77
72
78
73
16
47
Forrest Fezler United States
301
73
77
73
78
17
T48
George Burns United States
302
74
73
78
77
18
T48
Frank Conner United States
302
73
78
73
78
18
T48
Fred Couples United States
302
76
74
80
72
18
T48
Rod Funseth United States
302
73
74
74
81
18
T48
Greg Norman Australia
302
76
74
74
78
18
T53
John Cook United States
304
71
80
77
76
20
T53
David Edwards United States
304
74
76
84
70
20
T53
Lon Hinkle United States
304
70
77
76
81
20
T53
Joe Inman United States
304
72
77
75
80
20
T53
Eddie Pearce United States
304
75
75
76
78
20
T53
Joey Rassett
304
75
75
77
77
20
T59
Eric Batten
305
74
76
77
78
21
T59
Arnold Palmer United States
305
76
73
75
81
21
61
John Gentile
306
73
75
77
81
22
62
Benson McLendon United States
309
77
74
80
78
25
63
Tony Peterson
312
74
75
84
79
28
MC-1
Miller Barber United States
152
74
78
-
-
10
MC-1
Raymond Floyd United States
152
76
76
-
-
10
MC-1
Johnny Miller United States
152
74
78
-
-
10
MC-1
Lindy Miller
152
79
73
-
-
10
MC-1
Mark Pfeil United States
152
73
79
-
-
10
MC-1
Scott Stegner
152
77
75
-
-
10
MC-1
Tom Watson United States
152
75
77
-
-
10
MC-2
Wally Armstrong United States
153
76
77
-
-
11
MC-2
Bill Britton United States
153
80
73
-
-
11
MC-2
Bobby Clampett United States
153
74
79
-
-
11
MC-2
Larry Gilbert
153
77
76
-
-
11
MC-2
Ted Goin
153
80
73
-
-
11
MC-2
Gene Littler United States
153
79
74
-
-
11
MC-2
Dennis Sullivan
153
74
79
-
-
11
MC-3
John Fought United States
154
77
77
-
-
12
MC-3
Tom Kite United States
154
75
79
-
-
12
MC-3
Rik Massengale United States
154
77
77
-
-
12
MC-3
J.C. Snead United States
154
76
78
-
-
12
MC-3
Alan Tapie United States
154
78
76
-
-
12
MC-3
Leonard Thompson United States
154
78
76
-
-
12
MC-4
Jon Feinberg
155
75
80
-
-
13
MC-4
P. Horgan
155
75
80
-
-
13
MC-4
James Masserio
155
77
78
-
-
13
MC-4
Gil Morgan United States
155
78
77
-
-
13
MC-4
David Ogrin United States
155
77
78
-
-
13
MC-4
Bill Pelham
155
80
75
-
-
13
MC-4
Fuzzy Zoeller United States
155
77
78
-
-
13
MC-5
Charlie Gibson
156
77
79
-
-
14
MC-5
Vance Heafner United States
156
77
79
-
-
14
MC-5
Jerry Heard United States
156
75
81
-
-
14
MC-5
Richard Terrell
156
77
79
-
-
14
MC-6
Don Padgett
157
75
82
-
-
15
MC-6
Bob Shearer Australia
157
77
80
-
-
15
MC-6
Mike Slipko
157
78
79
-
-
15
MC-6
Craig Stadler United States
157
78
79
-
-
15
MC-6
Austin Straub
157
77
80
-
-
15
MC-6
David Zabell
157
83
74
-
-
15
MC-7
Doug Brown
158
78
80
-
-
16
MC-7
Mark Hayes United States
158
80
78
-
-
16
MC-7
Kenneth Leber
158
82
76
-
-
16
MC-7
John McGough
158
81
77
-
-
16
MC-7
Randy OLinger
158
81
75
-
-
14
MC-7
Steve Spray United States
158
85
73
-
-
16
MC-7
Tommy Valentine United States
158
80
78
-
-
16
MC-7
Steven Veriato
158
77
81
-
-
16
MC-8
Kip Byrne
159
77
82
-
-
17
MC-8
Larry Griffin
159
80
79
-
-
17
MC-8
Jeff Jerrel
159
78
81
-
-
17
MC-8
Tim Simpson United States
159
79
80
-
-
17
MC-8
Rick Whitfield
159
79
80
-
-
17
MC-9
Seve Ballesteros Spain
160
79
81
-
-
18
MC-9
Dick Grout
160
84
76
-
-
18
MC-9
Frank Gusmus
160
80
80
-
-
18
MC-9
Don Iverson
160
80
80
-
-
18
MC-10
Mike Burke
161
79
82
-
-
19
MC-10
Bob Byman United States
161
80
81
-
-
19
MC-10
Mike McCullough United States
161
82
79
-
-
19
MC-10
Sale Omohundro
161
79
82
-
-
19
MC-10
Tom Sieckmann
161
79
82
-
-
19
MC-10
Ron Streck United States
161
80
81
-
-
19
MC-11
Dennis Coscina
162
82
80
-
-
20
MC-11
Joe Kunes
162
78
84
-
-
20
MC-11
John Schroeder United States
162
80
82
-
-
20
MC-12
Tom Inskeep
163
86
77
-
-
21
MC-12
Harcourt Kemp
163
83
80
-
-
21
MC-12
Bill Loeffler
163
84
79
-
-
21
MC-12
Terry Peddy
163
78
85
-
-
21
MC-12
Larry Rentz
163
76
87
-
-
21
MC-12
Sheng-San Hsu Taiwan
163
79
84
-
-
21
MC-13
Lennie Clements United States
164
84
80
-
-
22
MC-13
Brad Sherfy
164
84
80
-
-
22
MC-14
Cliff Cook
165
84
81
-
-
23
MC-14
Dave Eichelberger United States
165
84
81
-
-
23
MC-14
Steve Groves
165
84
81
-
-
23
MC-14
Fred Haney
165
79
86
-
-
23
MC-14
Herb Holzscheiter
165
80
85
-
-
23
MC-14
Darrell Kestner United States
165
82
83
-
-
23
MC-14
Mick Soli United States
165
83
82
-
-
23
MC-14
Lee Vandover
165
81
84
-
-
23
MC-15
Mike Atkins
166
76
90
-
-
24
MC-15
Chris Nordling
166
80
86
-
-
24
MC-16
Shuford Dunaway
167
84
83
-
-
25
MC-16
David Glenz
167
83
84
-
-
25
MC-17
Mark Taylor
168
82
86
-
-
26
MC-17
Stan Thirsk
168
86
82
-
-
26
MC-20
Monte Money
171
84
87
-
-
29
WD
Buddy Gardner United States
82
82
-
-
-
11
WD
Hugh Baiocchi South Africa
87
87
-
-
-
16
WD
Fran Marrello
129
85
-
-
-
14
MC-1
Steve Melnyk United States
152
79
73
-
-
10