- Born
- Died
- Birth nameSeveriano Ballesteros Sota
- Nicknames
- Seve
- El Matador
- Severiano Ballesteros was born on April 9, 1957 in Pedreña, Santander, Cantabria, Spain. He was married to Carmen Botin. He died on May 7, 2011 in Pedreña, Cantabria, Spain.
- SpousesCarmen Botin(November 26, 1988 - 2004) (divorced, 3 children)Carmen Botin(? - 2004) (divorced, 3 children)
- Spanish golf player.
- Younger brother of Baldomero, Manuel and Vicente who were golf professionals and his Uncle Ramon Sota.
- Inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 1999.
- He won his first major golf tournament at the 1979 British Open at Royal Lytham and St. Anne's in England. He played on eight Ryder Cup squads including the 1987 European team championship in Muirfield Village, Dublin, Ohio. He was the non-playing captain of Europe's team in 1997.
- Is suffering from a brain tumour.
- I'm so deeply immersed in my game plan and my play that I'm virtually oblivious to outside sights and sounds. I never hear my playing partner's clubs rattling and I rarely ever hear the gallery applauding. I'm grinding as hard as I can inside my bubble.
- I'm not called Seve Ballesteros. I'm called Seve Mulligan, because I've had the luck to be given a mulligan, which in golf is a second chance.
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