Seve Ballesteros

✶April 9, 1957

†May 7, 2011

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About their life

Severiano Ballesteros Sota 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.

Spanish professional golfer (1957–2011)

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Biography from the article Seve Ballesteros on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.