1980 Ladies European Tour

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{{Infobox golf season

| year = 1980

| tour = Ladies European Tour

| regular_season = {{nowrap|{{Start date|1980|5|}} – {{end date|1980|10|}}}}

| no_of_events = 18

| honor1 = Order of Merit

| honoree1 = {{flagicon|SCO}} Muriel Thomson

| prevseason = 1979

| nextseason = 1981

}}

The 1980 Ladies European Tour was the second season of golf tournaments organised by the Women's Professional Golfers' Association (WPGA), which later became the Ladies European Tour (LET).{{cite book |title=LET Tour Guide 2013 |url=https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/30317578/2013–let–tour–guide–pdf–ladies–european–tour |publisher=Ladies European Tour |year=2013 |page=195}} The tour was principally sponsored by Carlsberg, who organised ten 36-hole tournaments counting towards their own Order of Merit. There were eleven other tournaments on the schedule including the Women's British Open, organised by the Ladies' Golf Union.

The Order of Merit was won by Muriel Thomson,{{cite news |last1=Pargeter |first1=John |title=PGA get tough |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002240/19801023/164/0012 |accessdate=28 September 2020 |work=Newcastle Journal |date=23 October 1980 |page=12}} who also topped the Carlsberg Order of Merit.{{cite news |last=Hennessy |first=John |title=Top of the club hit parade |newspaper=The Times |date=4 October 1980 |page=5 |via=The Times Digital Archive |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/CS84772676/TTDA?u=bli_ttda&sid=TTDA&xid=25c9cf7a |access-date=28 September 2020 |url-access=limited}}