1979–80 New Zealand Golf Circuit

The 1979–80 New Zealand Golf Circuit was the 17th and final season of the New Zealand Golf Circuit, the main professional golf tour in New Zealand since it was established in 1963.

1979–80 New Zealand Golf Circuit season

Duration	29 November 1979 (1979-11-29) – 2 January 1980 (1980-01-02)
Number of official events	3
Money list	Rodger Davis
← 1978–79

Final season

The 1979–80 season proved to be the last season of the New Zealand Golf Circuit, as from 1980 the New Zealand events were incorporated into the PGA Tour of Australia schedule and a combined Order of Merit was produced.^[1][2][3]

Schedule

The following table lists official events during the 1979–80 season.^[4][5][6]

Date	Tournament	Location	Purse (NZ$)	Winner[a]	Notes
2 Dec	Air New Zealand Shell Open	Wellington	75,000	David Graham (1)
9 Dec	New Zealand Open	Otago	50,000	Stewart Ginn (1)
2 Jan	New Zealand PGA Championship	Bay of Plenty	32,000	Bob Charles (20)

Money list

The money list was based on tournament results during the season, calculated in New Zealand dollars.^[5][7]

Position	Player	Prize money (NZ$)
1	Rodger Davis	15,932
2	David Graham	12,500
3	Simon Owen	10,215
4	Bob Charles	9,858
5	Stewart Ginn	8,270

Notes

1. The number in brackets after each winner's name is the number of New Zealand Golf Circuit events they had won up to and including that tournament. This information is only shown for New Zealand Golf Circuit members.