Portugal Defies Adverse Weather to Capture 1980 Western Open Title (Hurst, TX)

Portugal Defies Weather to Capture Western Open Title

Hurst, TX (April 12-13, 1980)

Hurst, TX – The $10,000 Western Open in Hurst, TX, April 12 and 13 will be remembered for the wind, rain, and near-freezing temperatures that hindered pros and amateur, all battling the elements to win the $1,500 in top prize money.

Marc Portugal, of Waco, TX, won the tournament with a 231, 57 under par. 1979 Rookie Player of the Year, this is Portugal's second national win. He won the 1979 Eastern Open in Winston-Salem, NC.

Pros and amateurs braced themselves against the winds that blew their golf balls off tee-mats and around the greens, Saturday, the first day of competition, all aimed for those ever-illusive aces. During the second-round competition, the rains came, and continued throughout the day and night.

Sunday morning competitors walked an unplayable golf course, some holes standing in four inches of water. After a two-hour delay, the last half of the Western Open began and all four rounds were played on Course #2 of the Hurst, TX Putt-Putt Golf Course.

Gary English, of Orlando, FL, captured second place with a 235. Ed Haggerty of Charlotte, NC, won third place with a 236. Haggerty was also third place in the 1979 National Championship.

Herman Villalovas of Forth Worth, TX captured the amateur division with a 237, 51 under par.

		Round									Prize
	Player	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Total	Money
1	Marc Portugal	30	26	33	27	29	30	27	29	231	$1,500.00
2	Gary English	30	28	30	29	32	31	26	29	235	$1,000.00
3	Ed Haggerty	31	29	28	25	30	32	33	28	236	$800.00
4	Mark Greaux	27	34	32	28	32	28	29	28	238	$512.50
	Ronnie Burkhard	29	28	30	29	31	31	27	33	238	$512.50
	Steve Tanton	27	27	31	27	32	32	28	34	238	$512.50
	Charles Greenwalt	34	28	24	26	32	35	27	32	238	$512.50
8	Rick Shelton	35	25	32	31	31	29	26	30	239	$350.00
	Jim Borchelt	29	25	33	31	30	31	30	33	239	$350.00
10	Greg Roberts	29	28	32	31	31	26	30	33	240	$280.00
	Joel Baker	29	28	27	33	34	36	28	25	240	$280.00
	Gary Watson	28	30	28	29	34	28	30	33	240	$280.00
13	Steve Lyon	36	29	30	28	33	30	29	26	241	$220.00
	John Connor	32	29	31	25	28	34	30	32	241	$220.00
	Evelyn Florin	36	31	30	23	29	31	28	33	241	$220.00
16	Eddie Coy	32	31	32	29	28	34	31	27	244	$190.00
17	Jon Roessner	28	27	32	34	32	31	34	27	245	$170.00
	Ray Browning	34	28	26	32	34	30	32	29	245	$170.00
	Mike Sherrill	33	28	29	33	34	30	31	27	245	$170.00
20	David Jones	34	37	30	26	28	30	32	29	246	$145.00
	Keith Barfield	28	29	34	29	31	29	34	32	246	$145.00
22	Jon Bambling	28	29	36	28	30	33	31	32	247	$130.00
23	Bruce Kaiser	33	28	31	30	33	34	31	28	248	$107.50
	Wendell Sikes	32	34	29	32	32	35	27	27	248	$107.50
	Robert Smith	30	32	31	34	32	30	30	29	248	$107.50
	Gary Hester	36	30	31	30	30	31	31	29	248	$107.50
27	Rick Jensen	31	32	32	33	33	28	28	32	249	$100.00
	Bobby Gilmore	31	30	32	31	28	31	32	34	249	$100.00
28	Mike Baldoza	31	26	30	30	37	36	32	28	250	$33.33
	Jim Starr	35	29	27	30	36	33	30	30	250	$33.33
	Randy Stone	34	27	34	30	31	35	27	32	250	$33.33
31	Dick Florin	29	31	32	28	35	33	32	31	251
32	Jude Prather	35	31	30	30	37	33	28	28	252
	Ed Bozzacco	34	28	36	300	35	32	31	34	252
	Michael Carano	32	30	33	31	37	31	29	29	252
	Gerald Phifer	35	37	29	28	33	32	28	30	252
36	Ken Summers	36	29	31	32	32	34	30	30	254
	Buzzy Adams	31	33	30	27	34	34	36	29	254
38	Jay Strutton	32	31	33	31	30	36	30	33	256
	Tommy Hoag	36	31	27	32	35	32	33	29	256
	Tom Carter	34	26	34	29	35	34	33	31	256
	Steve Wood	29	30	33	28	35	35	37	29	256
42	Philip Davis	31	32	33	29	35	30	38	30	257
43	Marc Chase	27	29	34	27	34	33	41	33	258
44	Dennis Sweeney	35	34	33	32	32	33	31	31	261
	James Chastain	34	32	30	29	31	35	40	30	261
46	Donnie Baker	30	33	31	30	34	34	34	37	263
47	Paula Moore	34	42	32	29	35	33	31	30	266
48	Earl Brabb	33	30	36	28	34	33	38	36	268
49	Kevin Smith	31	35	29	35	36	34	36	33	269
50	William Harris	32	33	36	32	35	30	36	37	271
51	Fred Rhew	32	30	32	35	33	35	42	34	273
52	Stanley Seethoff	33	38	37	33	39	35	38	44	297

		Round
	Player	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Total
1	Herman Villalovos	25	30	27	32	30	33	33	27	237
2	Byron Yee	28	24	30	32	29	36	31	35	245
3	David McCaslin	35	32	30	29	32	34	28	31	246
4	Austin Jones	33	27	31	31	32	35	31	28	248
5	Rami Joseph	31	29	30	32	32	38	31	30	253
6	Tommy Murphy	30	28	26	32	34	37	38	29	254
7	Matthew Farmer	28	27	30	32	40	35	35	30	257
8	Nick Gill	34	26	32	30	34	34	36	33	259
9	Dan Berendt	30	33	33	28	33	38	34	33	262
	Tim Murphy	28	30	30	32	35	34	37	36	262