This is a list of the Fall 1980 PGA Tour Qualifying School graduates.
Peter Teravainen, who played on the PGA Tour the previous season, missed qualifying by one shot. The European Tour then gave membership to the top 15 players who failed to qualify at PGA Tour Qualifying School. Teravainen accepted membership.[1]
| Player | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bruce Douglass | ||
| 2 | Doug Black | ||
| T3 | Jack Ferenz | ||
| Jeff Hewes | |||
| T5 | Jim Booros | ||
| Keith Lyford | |||
| Gary Trivisonno | |||
| Allan Strange | |||
| Ted Goin | |||
| Curtis Worley | |||
| T11 | Mark O'Meara | Winner of 1979 U.S. Amateur | |
| Tim Norris | |||
| T13 | Dan Frickley | ||
| Rod Nuckolls | |||
| T15 | John Mazza | ||
| Perry Arthur | |||
| Loren Roberts | |||
| Darrell Kestner | |||
| Don Levin | |||
| John Jacobs | |||
| T21 | Scott Stegner | ||
| Brent Murray | |||
| Richie Adham | |||
| Bob Beauchemin | |||
| Fred Couples | Winner of 1978 Washington Open | ||
| Thomas Gray | |||
| Jimmy Paschal |