Seve Ballesteros, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetSeve Ballesteros
Spanish golfer
Date of Birth: 
Place of Birth: Pedreña, Cantabria, Spain
About Seve Ballesteros
- Severiano Ballesteros Sota (Spanish pronunciation: [seße'?jano ßa?es'te?os]; 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.
- He is generally regarded as the greatest Continental European golfer of all time.Ballesteros won a record 50 European Tour titles.
- 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.
- Ballesteros eventually retired from competitive professional golf in 2007 because of continued poor form. 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 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 on 7 May 2011, aged 54.
Read more at Wikipedia