1979 - Team Team Events
The winners in the category "1979 - Team Team Events" are shown in the table below, which also includes relevant information on venues, scores and prize money.
Team Events
Pioneer
Played as the inaugural Pioneer Cup. LPGA Tour (US) vs LPGA of Japan Tour. Result: LPGA beat JLPGA with respective aggregate team strokeplay scores of 1145 to 1156. Best individual was Yuko Moriguchi (137); runner-up Amy Alcott.
Team Events
Eur Tr/PGA of Am
The Ryder Cup (23rd) (Sept 14-16). USA vs Europe. 12 top professionals per team competing over three days in a total of eight foursome matches, eight fourballs and 12 singles. Non-playing captains: Billy Casper (USA); John Jacobs (Eng/Europe). [Greenbrier course, Greenbrier GC, White Sulphur Springs, WV].
Overall result: USA 17, Europe 11.
Sunday singles (home player stated first): Lanny Wadkins lost to Bernard Gallacher (Scot) 3&2; Larry Nelson bt Seve Ballesteros (Esp) 3&2; Tom Kite bt Tony Jacklin (Eng) 1 hole; Mark Hayes bt Antonio Garrido (Esp) 1 hole; Andy Bean bt Michael King (Eng) 4&3; John Mahaffey bt Brian Barnes (Scot) 1 hole; Lee Elder lost to Nick Faldo (Eng) 3&2; Hale Irwin bt Des Smyth (Ire) 5&3; Hubert Green bt Peter Oosterhuis (Eng) 2 holes; Fuzzy Zoeller lost to Ken Brown (Scot) 1 hole; Lee Trevino bt Sandy Lyle (Scot) 2&1; Gil Morgan halved with Mark James (Eng). The Morgan-James match was not actually played as both players were injured.
Note: The first year that a European team rather than Great Britain & Ireland competed against the USA. Two continental Europeans were included, Spain's Seve Ballesteros and Antonio Garrido. Although the Europeans lost, an important corner had been turned that would bring an end to years of American domination in the Ryder Cup.
Team Events
R&A / USGA
The Walker Cup (27th). USA vs Gt Britain & Ireland. Ten top amateurs per team competing in 2x four foursomes and 2x eight singles. Result: USA 15.5, GB&I 8.5. Non-playing captains: Dick Siderowf (USA); Rodney Foster (Eng/GB&I). [Muirfield-The Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers, East Lothian].
WEDNESDAY SINGLES (eight 18-hole matches; home player stated first): Peter McEvoy (Eng) halved with Jay Sigel; John Davies (Eng) lost to Doug Clarke 8&7; James Buckley (Wales) lost to Scott Hoch 9&7; Ian Hutcheon (Scot) lost to Jim Holtgrieve 6&4; Brian Marchbank (Scot) bt Michael Peck 1 hole; Geoff Godwin (Eng) bt Griff Moody III 3&2; Michael Kelley (Eng) bt Doug Fischesser 3&2; Allan Brodie (Scot) lost to Michael Gove 3&2.
THURSDAY SINGLES (eight 18-hole matches): McEvoy lost to Hoch 3&1; Gordon Brand Jr (Scot) lost to Clarke 2&1; Godwin lost to Gove 3&2; Hutcheon lost to Peck 2&1; Brodie bt Martin West III 3&2; Kelley lost to Moody 3&2; Marchbank lost to Hal Sutton 3&1; Iain Carslaw (Scot) lost to Jay Sigel 2&1.
Team Events
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Played as the World Cup of Golf (72-hole stroke play team event based on total scores of both players). Second-placed Sandy Lyle & Ken Brown (Scot) finished 5 shots behind John Mahaffey & Hale Irwin (USA), who shared the $6,000 first prize. Best individual score: Hale Irwin (285). [Glyfada GC of Athens, Greece].
Chevron Championship: Carlton Woods near Houston in Texas provides the stage for the first women’s major championship of 2025, where Nelly Korda defends her title. (April 24-27).
Soudal Open: successor to the Belgian Open, the Soudal Open takes place on the quiet, wooded North course of Rinkven Golfclub. Belgian stars Thomas Pieters and Nicolas Colsaerts will be vying for top honours. (May 22-25).
Rory McIlroy: with his 2025 win in The Masters, Rory joined the pantheon of golfing greats who have achieved a career Grand Slam of men’s majors ... Gene Sarazen, Ben Hogan, Gary Player, Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods are the only others in this select band.
Bernhard Langer: he may have played in his last Masters Tournament, but the 67-year-old German will be trying to extend his own record, and win a 13th senior major title at the 36th Regions Tradition. (May 15-18).
Marco Simone Golf & Country Club: With a clubhouse that might befit a Roman Emperor, and a golf course to match, you can be sure of a memorable outing at Rome's most talked about golf facility.
Jim Fazio's original layout was much changed to create a modern Ryder Cup course ... now one of the Eternal City's (and Italy's) most revered.
Here at Prince’s Golf Club you'll find 27 excellent holes of links golf. Just over the fence and sharing similar terrain is Royal St George’s; but Prince’s is far from overshadowed by its venerable neighbour. The three nine-hole loops at Prince's, laid out over gently undulating terrain, are sure to bring a smile of satisfaction to all lovers of links golf.
Stay&Play at Prince's: excellent onsite Lodge accommodation available
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