Any ideas?

[Tongo]

This may prove a fruitless request, but hey ho!

I've been writing a book over the winter about the 26 occasions that 63 has been shot in a men's major championship and am close to finishing. However, my text is a little lacking on the chapters for the rounds by Tom Weiskopf and Jack Nicklaus at the 1980 US Open, Isao Aoki at the 1980 Open Championship and Brad Faxon at the 1995 USPGA Championship. Any ideas where i might find some detail? I've scoured the internet and found bits and pieces but not as much as for the other chapters.

Any help / ideas will be greatly appreciated!

 

[NWJocko]

This may prove a fruitless request, but hey ho!

I've been writing a book over the winter about the 26 occasions that 63 has been shot in a men's major championship and am close to finishing. However, my text is a little lacking on the chapters for the rounds by Tom Weiskopf and Jack Nicklaus at the 1980 US Open, Isao Aoki at the 1980 Open Championship and Brad Faxon at the 1995 USPGA Championship. Any ideas where i might find some detail? I've scoured the internet and found bits and pieces but not as much as for the other chapters.

Any help / ideas will be greatly appreciated!

You tried contacting USGA, R&A and USPGA?

If anyone is going to have complete records is guess it might be them?

Alternatively maybe local press to where each of the majors was staged might have archives etc

Good luck!

 

[patricks148]

This may prove a fruitless request, but hey ho!

I've been writing a book over the winter about the 26 occasions that 63 has been shot in a men's major championship and am close to finishing. However, my text is a little lacking on the chapters for the rounds by Tom Weiskopf and Jack Nicklaus at the 1980 US Open, Isao Aoki at the 1980 Open Championship and Brad Faxon at the 1995 USPGA Championship. Any ideas where i might find some detail? I've scoured the internet and found bits and pieces but not as much as for the other chapters.

Any help / ideas will be greatly appreciated!

get in touch with A holer, he will google it for you

 

[guest100718]

some of the old fogies must remember

 

[the_coach]

maybes you already seen all of this .....


http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1980/06/13/page/39/article/nicklaus-weiskopf-fire-open-record-63s

& the following from Golf Digest.

A piece of history: Johnny Miller broke a major barrier that had stood for 33 years when he shot 63 in the '73 U.S. Open.

Even Jack Nicklaus, as clutch as there ever was, missed a three-foot birdie putt on the 18th green at Baltusrol GC's Lower course in the first round of the '80 U.S. Open, settling for a 63 after a tentative stroke.

Only a yard away from an eight-under 62 at Baltusrol, Nicklaus has admitted "I probably choked" on the crucial putt. While as many as four years have gone by (twice) between 63s since Miller did it, that Thursday in northern New Jersey there were two recorded within 45 minutes. Tom Weiskopf did it first several groups in front of the Golden Bear. "I was disappointed I missed the short putt at the last hole," Nicklaus says. "That almost spoiled the round for me. I knew Weiskopf shot 63, and I wanted to shoot a 62. And I didn't."


Vijay Singh, who with Greg Norman are the only players to record two 63s in majors. Miller is one of only five players who won the week they shot 63—Nicklaus (1980 U.S. Open), Raymond Floyd (1982 PGA), Norman (1986 British) and Woods (2007 PGA) are the others. Miller is the only member of that quintet to do it in a final round. Indeed, of the 23 rounds of 63 in men's majors, only four have occurred in final rounds. (Brad Faxon used his closing 63 at Riviera CC to finish fifth in the 1995 PGA Championship and catapult onto the U.S. Ryder Cup team; Jodie Mudd's 63 moved him to T-5 in the 1991 British; Payne Stewart was 12th in the 1993 British after a finishing 63.)
Journeymen and stars both have breathed the rare air of 63. Mark Hayes was a par away from 62 in the second round of the 1977 British Open at Turnberry, but he missed the green and failed to convert a six-footer. Paul Broadhurst cruised around St. Andrews in 63 in the third round of the 1990 British. Michael Bradley was only in his third year on the PGA Tour when he encountered a soft Riviera CC in the first round of the 1995 PGA Championship. "I was still kind of finding my way and all of a sudden I was leading a major," says Bradley. "I do remember being awfully nervous."

 

[the_coach]

[FONT=verdana, geneva, helvetica] "1980 U.S. Open [/FONT]

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[FONT=verdana, geneva, helvetica][SIZE=-1]Recap and Scores for the 1980 U.S. Open Golf Tournament[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=verdana, geneva, helvetica] Jack Nicklaus entered the 1980 U.S. Open coming off a season (1979) in which he went winless for the first time in his PGA Tour career. He had turned 40 years old. The whispers were everywhere: Nicklaus is washed up.[/FONT]
[FONT=verdana, geneva, helvetica] But by the end of the week, the scoreboard at Baltusrol famously exclaimed, "Jack Is Back!"[/FONT]
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Nicklaus and Tom Weiskopf opened the tournament with scorching rounds of 63, becoming just the second and third golfers to shoot 63 in a U.S. Open. Weiskopf quickly fell away, however, failing to break 75 in his remaining rounds and finishing 37th. Nicklaus had a 3-foot birdie putt on the 18th hole of that first round for a record 62, but missed. Nicklaus followed with a second-round 71 and a 2-stroke lead over, among others, Japan's Isao Aoki. Aoki was the best - or at worst, second-best - Japanese golfer of the time, and had Top 10 finishes in the 1978 and 1979 British Opens. His appearance in the 1980 U.S. Open was just his second in this event. But with back-to-back 68s, Aoki was on Nicklaus' trail.
And Aoki caught Nicklaus in the third round, shooting 68 to Nicklaus' 70.
In the final round, Aoki bogied the second hole and Nicklaus birdied the third, producing a 2-stroke lead for the Golden Bear. Aoki trimmed the lead back to one, but Nicklaus maintained a 2-stroke margin over the entire back nine. Aoki birdied the final two holes, but so did Nicklaus to win by two strokes.
For Nicklaus, it was his record-tying fourth U.S. Open victory (joining Ben Hogan, Bobby Jones and Willie Anderson at four), and his 16th professional major.
Nicklaus' 272 total broke his own tournament record of 275, set in 1967 and also at Baltusrol. At the time, Aoki's 274 was the second-lowest total ever posted in a U.S. Open, and it still shares the record for lowest score by a non-winner.
Aoki went on to win 51 times total in Japan, once on the USPGA and nine times on the Champions Tour. Nicklaus won only four more times after this on the PGA Tour, but two of those were majors - including one a couple months later, the 1980 PGA Championship. "


1980 U.S. Open Golf Tournament Scores
Results from the 1980 U.S. Open golf tournament played on the par-70 Lower Course of Baltusrol Golf Club in Springfield, New Jersey (a-amateur):

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[TR]
[TD]Jack Nicklaus [/TD]
[TD]63-71-70-68--272 [/TD]
[TD]$55,000
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Isao Aoki [/TD]
[TD]68-68-68-70--274
[/TD]
[TD]$29,500[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Keith Fergus [/TD]
[TD]66-70-70-70--276 [/TD]
[TD]$17,400[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Lon Hinkle [/TD]
[TD]66-70-69-71--276 [/TD]
[TD]$17,400[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Tom Watson [/TD]
[TD]71-68-67-70--276 [/TD]
[TD]$17,400[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Mark Hayes [/TD]
[TD]66-71-69-74--280 [/TD]
[TD]$11,950[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Mike Reid [/TD]
[TD]69-67-75-69--280 [/TD]
[TD]$11,950[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Ed Sneed [/TD]
[TD]72-70-70-70--282 [/TD]
[TD]$8,050[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Hale Irwin [/TD]
[TD]70-70-73-69--282 [/TD]
[TD]$8,050[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Mike Morley [/TD]
[TD]73-68-69-72--282 [/TD]
[TD]$8,050[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Andy North [/TD]
[TD]68-75-72-67--282 [/TD]
[TD]$8,050[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Bruce Devlin [/TD]
[TD]71-70-70-72--283 [/TD]
[TD]$4,387[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Bobby Wadkins [/TD]
[TD]72-71-68-72--283 [/TD]
[TD]$4,387[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Joe Hager [/TD]
[TD]72-70-71-70--283 [/TD]
[TD]$4,387[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Lee Trevino [/TD]
[TD]68-73-69-74--284 [/TD]
[TD]$4,387[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Pat McGowan [/TD]
[TD]69-69-73-73--284 [/TD]
[TD]$2,891[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Bill Rogers [/TD]
[TD]69-72-70-73--284 [/TD]
[TD]$2,891[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Gil Morgan [/TD]
[TD]73-70-70-71--284 [/TD]
[TD]$2,891[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Curtis Strange [/TD]
[TD]69-74-71-70--284 [/TD]
[TD]$2,891[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Joe Inman [/TD]
[TD]74-69-69-72--284 [/TD]
[TD]$2,891[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Craig Stadler [/TD]
[TD]73-67-69-75--284 [/TD]
[TD]$2,891[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Jim Simons [/TD]
[TD]70-72-71-72--285 [/TD]
[TD]$2,400[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]J.C. Snead [/TD]
[TD]69-71-73-72--285 [/TD]
[TD]$2,400[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Peter Jacobsen [/TD]
[TD]70-69-72-74--285 [/TD]
[TD]$2,400[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]a-Gary Hallberg [/TD]
[TD]74-68-70-73--285 [/TD]
[TD] [/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Jay Haas [/TD]
[TD]67-74-70-75--286 [/TD]
[TD]$2,275[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Mark Lye [/TD]
[TD]68-72-77-69--286 [/TD]
[TD]$2,275[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]John Mahaffey [/TD]
[TD]72-73-69-73--287 [/TD]
[TD]$2,125[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]David Edwards [/TD]
[TD]73-68-72-74--287 [/TD]
[TD]$2,125[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]George Burns [/TD]
[TD]75-69-73-70--287 [/TD]
[TD]$2,125[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Calvin Peete [/TD]
[TD]67-76-74-70--287 [/TD]
[TD]$2,125[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Ben Crenshaw [/TD]
[TD]72-73-71-72--288 [/TD]
[TD]$1,900[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Bob Gilder [/TD]
[TD]72-68-74-74--288 [/TD]
[TD]$1,900[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Jerry McGee [/TD]
[TD]72-72-70-74--288 [/TD]
[TD]$1,900[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Jack Newton [/TD]
[TD]72-71-74-71--288 [/TD]
[TD]$1,900[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Hubert Green [/TD]
[TD]73-73-65-77--288 [/TD]
[TD]$1,900[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Tom Weiskopf [/TD]
[TD]63-75-76-75--289 [/TD]
[TD]$1,760[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Tim Simpson [/TD]
[TD]70-73-73-74--290 [/TD]
[TD]$1,630[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]a-Bobby Clampett [/TD]
[TD]72-74-71-73--290 [/TD]
[TD] [/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Rod Curl [/TD]
[TD]73-71-72-74--290 [/TD]
[TD]$1,630[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Gene Littler [/TD]
[TD]72-68-75-75--290 [/TD]
[TD]$1,630[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Jim Dent [/TD]
[TD]72-72-70-76--290 [/TD]
[TD]$1,630[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Artie McNickle [/TD]
[TD]76-70-72-72--290 [/TD]
[TD]$1,630[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Bruce Lietzke [/TD]
[TD]71-72-70-77--290 [/TD]
[TD]$1,630[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Scott Simpson [/TD]
[TD]73-72-73-73--291 [/TD]
[TD]$1,530[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Wayne Levi [/TD]
[TD]72-71-73-75--291 [/TD]
[TD]$1,530[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Charles Coody [/TD]
[TD]72-71-74-75--292 [/TD]
[TD]$1,470[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]David Graham [/TD]
[TD]72-73-72-75--292 [/TD]
[TD]$1,470[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Jim Colbert [/TD]
[TD]72-69-74-77--292 [/TD]
[TD]$1,470[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Raymond Floyd [/TD]
[TD]67-79-71-75--292 [/TD]
[TD]$1,470[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Lou Graham [/TD]
[TD]73-71-72-77--293 [/TD]
[TD]$1,410[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Dave Stockton [/TD]
[TD]73-73-77-70--293 [/TD]
[TD]$1,410[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]John Cook [/TD]
[TD]71-71-77-75--294 [/TD]
[TD]$1,385[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Fuzzy Zoeller [/TD]
[TD]75-70-72-77--294 [/TD]
[TD]$1,385[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Tommy McGinnis [/TD]
[TD]69-71-81-74--295 [/TD]
[TD]$1,370[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Ron Streck [/TD]
[TD]72-71-76-77--296 [/TD]
[TD]$1,355[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Lance Ten Broeck [/TD]
[TD]73-71-71-81--296 [/TD]
[TD]$1,355[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Chip Beck [/TD]
[TD]76-70-77-74--297 [/TD]
[TD]$1,340[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Jeff Mitchell [/TD]
[TD]69-75-73-81--298 [/TD]
[TD]$1,330[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Phil Hancock [/TD]
[TD]76-70-75-78--299 [/TD]
[TD]$1,310[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Larry Nelson [/TD]
[TD]70-74-76-79--299 [/TD]
[TD]$1,310[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Bobby Walzel [/TD]
[TD]73-70-81-75--299 [/TD]
[TD]$1,310[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Arnold Palmer [/TD]
[TD]73-73-77-78--301 [/TD]
[TD]$1,310[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]

 

[MashieNiblick]

Jack gives a brief account of his 63 at the 1980 US Open in his autobiography "My Story"