SEVE BALLESTEROS - (plus Blog post)
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Kevin Shields
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I like only positive images of my heroes. Not Arnie chili dipping chips and shooting 98 at The Masters. It wouldve been fitting for Seve to retire from competition while he could still be proud of his game and dynamic, not frustrated and bitter. Golf robs us a bit of the aura of a superstar a bit by allowing deteriorating stars to hang on. I was a gigantic fan of Seve and Faldo and didnt enjoy watching either of them struggle. I like how Byron Nelson, Koufax, Barry Sanders, and Jim Brown went out. Either way, he was great and I loved watching him.
So, sunmart, yes, seriously.
GeoffDickson
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Artist? I prefer the term SWASHBUCKLER!
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You will be missed, Seve. My hero.
Anyone who has ever played the game well has said to themselves, at least once, from a precarious spot of bother..."What would Seve do from here?"
You will be missed, Seve. My hero.
Anyone who has ever played the game well has said to themselves, at least once, from a precarious spot of bother..."What would Seve do from here?"
BrendanC
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On the later years, the thing is he was always losing his game - even back in the 80s.
How was he to know he had lost it for good!?
And when he did figure it out, he quit - about 4 years ago, I think after a half hearted attempt at the Champions Tour.
As one writer has it in today's paper 'he was never cut out for old man's golf.'
How was he to know he had lost it for good!?
And when he did figure it out, he quit - about 4 years ago, I think after a half hearted attempt at the Champions Tour.
As one writer has it in today's paper 'he was never cut out for old man's golf.'
From every great player we learn something. From Seve we learned the hole is never over till the ball is the hole. He made the most exciting bogeys and pars I have ever seen. When asked how he four putted the 16th at Augusta one year he said, "I miss, I miss, I miss, I make, simple"! But you had to hear it with the Spanish accent to appreciate it. RIP
From Oak Tree's Web Site:
Number 13 was unlucky for Seve Ballesteros in 1988. In the second round of the PGA, when his teeshot overflew the green of this little par three, the Spaniard found his ball lying in a creek bed just few feet from the four-foot high stone wall that supports this green. Attempting a quick-rising cut shot, he skulled the ball into the wall. It nearly hit him on the rebound, settling in some thick brush. From there he needed three more strokes to reach the green, where he sank a ten-footer for a triple-bogey 6. He shot 75 and missed the cut.
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I happened to be there and remember a slightly different version...
I was right next to the green near Payne Stewart who was playing with Seve and watching him down by the creek. A marshal walked into the area to try and help Seve find his ball after hitting the wall. Seve gave him a pretty good cussing because he was afraid he would step on his ball. Payne turned to me with a grin and said "I don't think Sebbe's a happy camper down there".
Anyway, he found the ball and got it on the green (may of taken a couple of tries). It was probably 20-30 feet away but there was a big mound on the green between him and the hole. He doesn't think long - takes out his wedge and knocks it over the mound near the hole (my memory says a foot but the website said 10).
One of my fondest tournament memories and they are both gone...
Wolfdog
Number 13 was unlucky for Seve Ballesteros in 1988. In the second round of the PGA, when his teeshot overflew the green of this little par three, the Spaniard found his ball lying in a creek bed just few feet from the four-foot high stone wall that supports this green. Attempting a quick-rising cut shot, he skulled the ball into the wall. It nearly hit him on the rebound, settling in some thick brush. From there he needed three more strokes to reach the green, where he sank a ten-footer for a triple-bogey 6. He shot 75 and missed the cut.
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I happened to be there and remember a slightly different version...
I was right next to the green near Payne Stewart who was playing with Seve and watching him down by the creek. A marshal walked into the area to try and help Seve find his ball after hitting the wall. Seve gave him a pretty good cussing because he was afraid he would step on his ball. Payne turned to me with a grin and said "I don't think Sebbe's a happy camper down there".
Anyway, he found the ball and got it on the green (may of taken a couple of tries). It was probably 20-30 feet away but there was a big mound on the green between him and the hole. He doesn't think long - takes out his wedge and knocks it over the mound near the hole (my memory says a foot but the website said 10).
One of my fondest tournament memories and they are both gone...
Wolfdog
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