In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Ballesteros and the second or maternal family name is Sota.
Seve Ballesteros
Ballesteros in 2006
Personal information
Full name
Severiano Ballesteros Sota
Born
(1957-04-09)9 April 1957 Pedreña, Cantabria, Spain
Died
7 May 2011(2011-05-07) (aged 54) Pedreña, Cantabria, Spain
Height
1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Sporting nationality
Spain
Spouse
Carmen Botín O'Shea
(m. 1988; div. 2004)
Children
3
Career
Turned professional
1974
Former tour(s)
PGA Tour
European Tour
Professional wins
90
Highest ranking
1 (27 April 1986) (61 weeks)
Number of wins by tour
PGA Tour
9
European Tour
50 (1st all time)
Japan Golf Tour
6
PGA Tour of Australasia
2
Other
28
Best results in major championships (wins: 5)
Masters Tournament
Won: 1980, 1983
PGA Championship
5th: 1984
U.S. Open
3rd: 1987
The Open Championship
Won: 1979, 1984, 1988
Achievements and awards
World Golf Hall of Fame
1999 (member page)
European Tour Order of Merit winner
1976, 1977, 1978, 1986, 1988, 1991
European Tour Golfer of the Year
1986, 1988, 1991
Severiano Ballesteros Sota (Spanish pronunciation:[seβeˈɾjanoβaʎesˈteɾos]; 9 April 1957 – 7 May 2011) was a Spanish professional golfer, a World No. 1 who was one of the sport's leading figures from the mid-1970s to the mid-1990s. A member of a gifted golfing family, he won 90 international tournaments in his career, including five major championships between 1979 and 1988; The Open Championship three times and the Masters Tournament twice. He gained attention in the golfing world in 1976, when at the age of 19, he finished second at The Open. He played a leading role in the re-emergence of European golf, helping the European Ryder Cup team to five wins both as a player and captain.
Ballesteros won a record 50 European Tour titles.[1] He won at least one European Tour title for 17 consecutive years between 1976 and 1992. His final victory was at the 1995 Peugeot Spanish Open. Largely because of back-related injuries, Ballesteros struggled with his form during the late 1990s. Despite this, he continued to be involved in golf, creating the Seve Trophy and running a golf course design business. In 2000, Golf Digest magazine ranked Ballesteros as the greatest Continental European golfer of all time.
In the 2000s, Ballesteros played sparingly due to continuing back problems and in 2007 he eventually retired from competitive professional golf. In 2008 he was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumour. Ballesteros was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award for the second time at the BBC Sports Personality Awards in 2009. He was presented with the award at his home in Spain by his compatriot and former Ryder Cup teammate José María Olazábal.
Ballesteros died of brain cancer in 2011, aged 54.
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award was renamed as the SeveBallesteros Award in honour of the legendary Spanish golfer. From 2021 onwards, the SeveBallesteros Award merged with the...
The Vivendi Trophy with SeveBallesteros, the 2011 event was the Vivendi Seve Trophy and the 2013 event was known as the Seve Trophy by Golf+. The event...
non-American player to win the tournament, in 1961; the second was SeveBallesteros of Spain, the champion in 1980 and 1983. The Augusta National course...
the number one from 1968 to 1977, Tom Watson from 1978 to 1982 and SeveBallesteros from 1983 to 1985. List of male golfers who have been in the world...
prompted by the success of a new generation of Spanish golfers, led by SeveBallesteros and Antonio Garrido. In 1973 the official title of the British Team...
player, ahead of SeveBallesteros, who had topped the unofficial McCormack's World Golf Rankings at the end of the previous year. Ballesteros briefly held...
a playoff against Dan Pohl. k Larry Mize won in a playoff against SeveBallesteros and Greg Norman. l Nick Faldo won in a playoff against Scott Hoch....
the Official World Golf Ranking. He was the second Spaniard after SeveBallesteros to be number one in the world. His reign as the number one golfer lasted...
wins (40) pale in quantity to that of contemporaries Greg Norman, SeveBallesteros, and Bernhard Langer, the prestige and stature of his successes are...
Championship, a six stroke victory over Nicklaus and a 19-year-old SeveBallesteros at The Open Championship at Royal Birkdale. The course had played hard...
Masters Tournament, where Langer won by two strokes over runners-up SeveBallesteros, Raymond Floyd and Curtis Strange. His second major came at the 1993...
held from 19 to 22 July at the Old Course in St Andrews, Scotland. SeveBallesteros won his second Open Championship and fourth major title, two strokes...
a sudden-death playoff with Larry Mize and SeveBallesteros. On the second playoff hole, with Ballesteros eliminated, Mize holed a 47-yard (140-foot)...
greatest links golf players of all time. In 1976, 19-year-old Spaniard SeveBallesteros gained attention in the golfing world when he finished second. He would...
Floyd approached Ballesteros with a severe warning that he was "better than you (Ballesteros) could ever be at this" and that if Ballesteros did not stop...
Santander Airport (IATA: SDR, ICAO: LEXJ), officially SeveBallesteros–Santander Airport, is an international airport near Santander, Spain and the only...
first European Tour victory in his 478th start on the tour. 2 wins: SeveBallesteros, Harry Bradshaw, Bernard Gallacher, Bernard Hunt, Tony Jacklin, Cobie...
Seve may refer to: SeveBallesteros (1957–2011), Spanish golfer Seve Benson (born 1986), English golfer Seve Paeniu (born 1965), Tuvaluan diplomat Alfred...
champion as well as being the former manager and brother of SeveBallesteros. Ballesteros was born in the summer of 1949 in Pedreña, Spain. He learned...
held April 10–13 at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia. SeveBallesteros, age 23, won his first Masters and second major championship title...
first Augusta win. 1. Masters champions Tommy Aaron, George Archer, SeveBallesteros (3,8,9), Gay Brewer, Billy Casper, Charles Coody, Ben Crenshaw, Raymond...
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