1980 Espirito Santo Trophy

1980 Espirito Santo Trophy
Pinehurst Country Club Course No. 2
Tournament information
Dates1–4 October
LocationPinehurst, North Carolina, U.S.
35°11′24″N 79°28′05″W / 35.190°N 79.468°W / 35.190; -79.468
Course(s)Pinehurst Country Club
(No. 2 course)
Organized byWorld Amateur Golf Council
Format72 holes stroke play
Statistics
Par74
Length5,940 yards (5,430 m)
Field28 teams
83 players
Champion
 United States
Juli Inkster, Patti Rizzo, Carol Semple
588 (−4)
Location map
Location in the United States
Location in North Carolina
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The 1980 Espirito Santo Trophy took place 1–4 October at Pinehurst Country Club in Pinehurst, North Carolina, United States. It was the ninth women's golf World Amateur Team Championship for the Espirito Santo Trophy. The tournament was a 72-hole stroke play team event with 28 teams, each with up to three players. The best two scores for each round counted towards the team total.

The United States team won the Trophy, taking back the title from four years ago and winning their seventh title, beating defending champions team Australia by seven strokes. Australia earned the silver medal while team France and the combined team of Great Britain and Ireland, shared the bronze on tied third place another 15 strokes behind.[1]

Teams

28 teams contested the event. Each team had three players, except Guatemala, who had two.

Country Players
 Argentina Susanna B. Garmendia, Maria E. Noguerol, Beatriz G. Rossello
 Australia Lindy Goggin, Edwina Kennedy, Jane Lock
 Belgium Isabelle Declerq, Marie-Noelle Herkens, Francoise De Wagheneire
 Bermuda Judithanne Astwood Outerbridge, Barbara Mulder, Ginette Spinucci
 Brazil Isabel D. Lopes, Elisabeth Nickhorn, Tiemi Nomura
 Canada Barbara Bunkowsky, Lynn Cooke, Judy Ellis
 Chile Maria Pia Aguirre, Ana Maria Cambiaso, Beatriz Steeger
 China Li-Ying Chen, Bie-Shyun Huang, Hsiu-Tien Su
 Colombia Patricia Gonzalez, Gloria de Pardo, Monica Tamayo
 Fiji Anna Dunn, Tuli Naisara, Myrtle Pickering
 France Elaine Berthet, Marie-Laure de Lorenzi, Cécilia Mourgue d'Algue
United Kingdom Great Britain &
 Ireland 		Jane Connachan, Maureen Madill, Belle Robertson
 Guatemala Nancy D. de Noguera, Florencia H. de Rolz
 Italy Emanuelo Braito, Marina Buscaini, Federica Dassù
 Japan Haruko Ishi, Toshi Matsubara, Haruyo Miyazawa
 Mexico Carolina Fernandez, Pilar Guzman, Adriana Ramirez
 Netherlands Alice Janmaat, Joyce Heysler, Ineke Keunen
 New Zealand Liz Douglas, Brenda Rhodes, Jan Scandrett
 Norway Reidun S. Dirdal, Lilly Gulliksen, Mette Rinde Reuss
 Peru Mariza Alzamora, Alicia Dibos, Juana M. de Nari
 South Africa Rae Hast, Sheree Muirhead, Vicky Farrell
 Spain Marta Figueras-Dotti, Ana Monfort de Albox, Carmen Maestre de Pellon
 Sweden Viveca Hoff, Pia Nilsson, Liv Wollin
 Switzerland Annette Hadorn, Regine Lautens, Marie Christine de Werra
 United States Juli Inkster, Patti Rizzo, Carol Semple
 Venezuela Angeles Alcantara, Gracielo Quintana, Gracielo Plaza
 West Germany Ursula Beer, Sabine Blecher, Barbara Böhm
 Zimbabwe Vivienne Browning, Linda Turnbull, Rowena Wepener

Results

Place Country Score To par
1st place, gold medalist(s)  United States 151-145-148-144=588 −4
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Australia 150-146-151-148=595 +3
T3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  France 158-150-156-146=610 +18
 Spain 159-145-150-156=610
5 United Kingdom Great Britain &
 Ireland 		156-154-149-156=615 +23
T6  Italy 158-155-156-152=621 +29
 Sweden 156-154-154-157=621
T8  Canada 160-151-155-156=622 +30
 Switzerland 157-158-152-155=622
10  Japan 159-157-157-155=628 +36
11  New Zealand 157-157-153-163=630 +38
12  China 160-155-157-161=633 +41
13  West Germany 160-153-158.164=635 +43
14  South Africa 160-161-156-161=638 +46
T15  Argentina 160-166-161-156=643 +51
 Netherlands 162-159-162-160=643
T17  Belgium 169-163-154-163=649 +57
 Brazil 162-158-163-166=649
19  Norway 167-162-160-162=651 +59
20  Colombia 171-164-166-162=663 +71
21  Zimbabwe 168-168-162-174=666 +74
22  Peru 169-163-162-174=668 +76
23  Chile 169-160-173-169=671 +79
24  Mexico 171-167-175-168=681 +89
25  Venezuela 171-168-169-177=685 +93
26  Bermuda 181-179-179-179=711 +119
27  Guatemala 170-192-173-178=713 +121
28  Fiji 183-183-185-188=739 +147

Sources:[1][2][3][4][5]

Individual leaders

There was no official recognition for the lowest individual scores.

Place Player Country Score To par
1 Patti Rizzo  United States 73-70-75-76=294 +2
2 Edwina Kennedy  Australia 73-71-76-76=296 +4
3 Marta Figueras-Dotti  Spain 80-70-71-77=298 +6
4 Linda Goggin  Australia 77-75-75-72=299 +7
5 Juli Inkster  United States 78-75-74-73=300 +8
6 Carol Semple  United States 78-79-74-71=302 +10
7 Federica Dassù  Italy 78-75-77-74=304 +12
8 Cécilia Mourgue d'Algue  France 79-73-79-75=306 +14
9 Marie-Laure de Lorenzi  France 79-80-77-71=307 +15
T10 Jane Connachan United Kingdom Great Britain &
 Ireland 		78-73-76-81=308 +16
Pia Nilsson  Sweden 79-77-75-77=308

References

  1. ^ a b "Record Book 1980 World Amateur Golf Team Championships" (PDF). World Amateur Golf Council. Retrieved 5 January 2021.
  2. ^ "World Amateur Team Championships – Women's Records". Retrieved 30 May 2013.
  3. ^ "Golf-VM genom åren, VM-resultat genom tiderna" [World Team Championship through the years]. Svensk Golf (in Swedish). No. 8. August 1988. pp. 168–170, 174–175. Retrieved 29 December 2020.
  4. ^ Jansson, Anders (1979). Golf - Den gröna sporten [Golf - The green sport] (in Swedish). Swedish Golf Federation. pp. 180–181. ISBN 9172603283.
  5. ^ Jansson, Anders (2004). Golf - Den stora sporten [Golf - The great sport] (in Swedish). Swedish Golf Federation. p. 184. ISBN 91-86818007.