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Radio 5 Live,08 Apr 2020,15 mins

Seve Ballesteros wins the 1979 Open

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The 1979 Open Championship was the 108th Open Championship, held 18–21 July at Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club in Lancashire. At only 22 years of age Seve Ballesteros was victorious, winning the first of his five major titles, three strokes ahead of runners-up Jack Nicklaus and Ben Crenshaw. It was the first of his three Open Championship victories; he raised the Claret Jug again in 1984 and 1988.

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