1980 U.S. Women's Open Winner and Scores
The 1980 U.S. Women's Open was the 35th time this major championship, staged by the USGA, was played. And the champion ran away to a 9-stroke victory.
Winner: Amy Alcott, 280
Where it was played: Richland Country Club in Nashville, Tennessee
Tournament dates: July 10-13, 1980
Leaders after first round: Amy Alcott, Barbara Moxness, 70
Leader after second round: Amy Alcott, 140
Leader after third round: Amy Alcott, 208
What Happened in the 1980 U.S. Women's Open
Amy Alcott set a tournament scoring record and ran away to a 9-shot win in the 1980 U.S. Women's Open. Alcott shared or held the lead outright following each round.Her lead was four after the second round, and a third-round 68 (tied for low round of the tournament) pushed Alcott's lead to eight strokes following the third round.
Hollis Stacy was the distant runner-up. When Alcott closed with a 72, she posted 280, nine ahead of Stacy. That 280 total was the new U.S. Women's Open 72-hole scoring record, lowering by one the mark set one year previously (and Alcott's 280 also stood as the record for just one year). Alcott finished a 4-under, just the fifth golfer in USWO history to this point to finish under par. Her 9-stroke win was the third-largest U.S. Women's Open margin of victory to this point.
For Alcott, it was her second win in a major championship (of an eventual five), and the 12th of her 29 career LPGA Tour victories.
Six-time LPGA Tour winner Jo Ann Prentice played the USWO for the 25th and final time this year. Those appearances were in consecutive years, beginning in 1956 — at the time the fourth-longest streak of consecutive appearance in USWO history.
1980 U.S. Women's Open Final Scores
| Amy Alcott | 70-70-68-72—280 |
| Hollis Stacy | 75-71-70-73—289 |
| Kathy McMullen | 74-73-71-73—291 |
| Judy Clark | 75-73-73-71—292 |
| Donna Caponi | 72-72-75-73—292 |
| Louise Bruce | 73-74-73-73—293 |
| Nancy Lopez | 74-72-71-77—294 |
| Lori Garbacz | 72-76-75-71—294 |
| Jane Blalock | 76-71-71-76—294 |
| Patty Hayes | 75-72-74-74—295 |
| Beth Daniel | 71-72-69-78—295 |
| Eva Chang | 74-74-72-75—295 |
| JoAnne Carner | 74-72-74-75—295 |
| Penny Pulz | 72-72-77-75—296 |
| Shelley Hamlin | 78-73-71-75—297 |
| Cathy Morse | 74-74-72-78—298 |
| Dorothy Germain | 75-76-72-75—298 |
| Marlene Floyd | 72-76-76-74—298 |
| Pat Bradley | 74-74-74-76—298 |
| Barbara Moxness | 70-74-75-80—299 |
| Sally Little | 74-76-76-73—299 |
| Bonnie Lauer | 76-73-75-75—299 |
| Ai-Yu Tu | 75-73-72-80—300 |
| Alison Sheard | 77-73-75-75—300 |
| Sandra Post | 79-68-70-83—300 |
| Pat Meyers | 75-73-77-75—300 |
| Mary Dwyer | 76-75-77-73—301 |
| Laura Baugh | 81-71-73-76—301 |
| Janet Alex | 72-74-77-78—301 |
| Sandra Spuzich | 78-72-75-77—302 |
| Becky Pearson | 77-76-76-73—302 |
| Gail Hirata | 75-76-78-73—302 |
| Barbara Barrow | 78-73-72-79—302 |
| Debbie Austin | 76-75-78-73—302 |
| Martha Hansen | 72-76-77-78—303 |
| Bonnie Bryant | 76-76-77-74—303 |
| Kathy Ahern | 73-76-77-77—303 |
| Kathy Hite | 77-71-80-76—304 |
| Carole Charbonnier | 78-75-77-75—305 |
| Myra Van Hoose | 75-77-72-82—306 |
| Beth Solomon | 76-76-76-78—306 |
| a-Judith Oliver | 75-76-80-75—306 |
| Barbara Mizrahie | 81-71-76-78—306 |
| Susie McAllister | 75-75-78-78—306 |
| Donna White | 74-76-78-79—307 |
| Beth Stone | 78-73-79-77—307 |
| Debby Rhodes | 75-75-79-78—307 |
| Kathryn Young | 72-77-80-80—309 |
| Alice Ritzman | 76-74-83-76—309 |
| Mary Mills | 76-75-79-79—309 |
| a-Lida Kinnicutt | 77-76-77-79—309 |
| Marty Dickerson | 74-77-77-81—309 |
| Cathy Mant | 78-75-79-78—310 |
| Marlene Hagge | 76-76-81-77—310 |
| Silvia Bertolaccini | 78-72-77-83—310 |
| Betty Burfeindt | 74-78-80-79—311 |
| Angie Tsai | 78-74-83-77—312 |
| Cynthia Kessler | 80-73-77-82—312 |
Sources:
Grand Island (Neb.) Independent. "U.S. Women's Open Scores," Daily Independent Sports Record, July 11, 1980.
The Houston (Tex.) Chronicle. "U.S. Women's Open," July 12, 1980.
Press of Atlantic City (N.J.). "U.S. Women's Open Scores," July 13, 1980.
United States Golf Association. U.S. Women's Open Past Champion, 1980, via Internet Archive, https://web.archive.org/web/20100314144601/https://www.uswomensopen.com/history/pastchamps/1980.html.
United States Golf Association. U.S. Women's Open Records, https://www.usga.org/content/usga/home-page/media/online-media-center/usga-records/u-s--women-s-open-records.html.
United States Golf Association. U.S. Women's Open, Records & Results, 1980, https://www.usga.org/content/usga/home-page/championships/history-timeline/scoring-and-stats/scoring.html#!&y=1980.