Seve dies aged 54........RIP

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It's one of those rare times where you shed a tear for someone you've never met.

R.I.P Severiano

nanook

Jerry Seinfeld wrote: »

It's one of those rare times where you shed a tear for someone you've never met.

R.I.P Severiano

have to agree, from what I have been told, an absolute gent and a great ambassador to the game.

RIP, have a drink in the 19th

f22

NoseyMike2010 wrote: »

I thought I posted up here !

Might have something to do with the idiocy of your post that it was removed!

FionnRua

RIP Seve. You will be sadly missed. A true legend. The game will miss you.

Nuri Sahin

McDowell just tweeted this, have to smile

One of my favourite lines I have read this morning.... "Apparently God needed a short game lesson....."

stockdam

By far the greatest and most exciting golfer I have seen. The man oozed passion and greatness. He was a fighter and a character. Sometimes grumpy on the course but when he smiled the whole world lit up. Not one of "the world's best golfers" but "the" best in the world. Seve probably inspired more people to take up the game than anyone else. He loved playing in the Ryder Cup and loved the other Spanish players. A great and a sad loss.

RIP Seve ........ simply the best.

stevejr

Just heard this, very sad, not the just the world of golf will be a dimmer place, for his passing. RIP Severano Ballesteros....

Jigga

RIP to a true legend.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5JfA1D1pkc

ronaneire

RIP, a true legend who will never be forgotten.

BiffoGooner

R.I.P. Seve, legend of the game.

doc_17

RIP Seve. What a loss to the golfing world.

Wouldn't it have been great to see him roam the fairways of the seniors tour for 10 years?

irishmanmick

Legend of the game ... Will be sorely missed ... RIP Seve

nlgbbbblth

I don't play golf anymore or even watch it but I always thought that Seve was a truly inspiring player. During the mid to late 80s I loved seeing him play and then tried to emulate his shots / style on the course afterwards. Failing miserably of course.

This clip is particularly memorable.

RIP

Snake Plisken

RIP Seve

Here is a clip from the Inside Sport documentary from a couple of years back Peter Alliss interviewed him.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/tv_and_radio/inside_sport/8304388.stm

Sad Sad day

Trampas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpchlvAHp-4

Trampas

Sky Sports 3 tomorrow will just have Seve on.

f22

"He was taking a shot once and a little boy could be heard rattling coins in his pocket behind him," Wentworth Golf Club chief executive Julian Small told Sky News.

"Seve turned round and asked the boy, 'Are you nervous?' The boy said he was and Seve smiled at him and said, 'So am I.'

"That was the kind of guy he was."

Says it all really!

Trampas

f22 wrote: »

"He was taking a shot once and a little boy could be heard rattling coins in his pocket behind him," Wentworth Golf Club chief executive Julian Small told Sky News.

"Seve turned round and asked the boy, 'Are you nervous?' The boy said he was and Seve smiled at him and said, 'So am I.'

"That was the kind of guy he was."

Says it all really!

I remember that

sodbuster77

RIP Seve.

Aidric

nlgbbbblth wrote: »

This clip is particularly memorable.

RIP

Class. He won the Irish Open 3 times.

f22

I thought this was quite fitting, he played his first event as a pro at the Spanish Open in 1974, his last victory as a pro was at the same event in 1995. He passed away during the Spanish Open this morning.

It was the way it was meant to be!

fryup

RIP Seve a true Gent.

Who remembers the 1985(?) Irish Open and the tension of his final putt..and then a rabbit appears on the green just as he was about tee up.

soundsham

Short BBC clip http://youtu.be/kmawDlePgu0

derra

Very sad day indeed.
Was always and always will be his name mentioned when you or a mate hits a great shot " ah look at Seve Ballesteros lads "

A.Partridge

Seve was quite simply the most 'watchable' golfer to have played the modern game.

A complete one-off, we'll not see his like again.

RIP

micky radigan

RIP Seve youll be missed

Lady Chatterton

I'm very sad tonight to hear of the untimely passing of Seve. He gave such great entertainment and pleasure to his many fans. RIP

jmayo

As a kid I remember he was one of the first golfers I ever heard about.
Hell even my father who never played talked of him winning the British open.
That was his appeal.
I believe he was one of the players that brought golf to the masses, he was one of the pivotal people in changing the Ryder Cup from a sideshow dominated by the US to something that meant something.

You didn't have to be a keen golfer or even a golf fan to sit down watch him and be engrossed.

One of a kind and another of the men with true character and personality lost to sport where characterless automatons are now the norm.

RIP Seve.

f22

"If you timed it right you could arrive at the chipping green just as he did. Hoping to learn, but happy just to watch"

Geoff Ogilvy

bob50

Poor Seve RIP what a legend will be always my fav gollfer and Gent.

I remember fondly after he had won a Irish open in portrmarknock in the early 80s and the powers that be wouldnt let him in to clubhouse that evening after winning because he wouldnt wear a tie. Seve didnt care it was an embarrasment on the club though.

Sadly missed

Ruu_Old

A legend, done great things for the European golf especially. Rest in peace.

Atlantic1

f22 wrote: »

I thought this was quite fitting, he played his first event as a pro at the Spanish Open in 1974, his last victory as a pro was at the same event in 1995. He passed away during the Spanish Open this morning.

It was the way it was meant to be!

That is truly incredible, F22, and, eventhough I've spent half the day online watching Seve clips and reading about him, I never copped all of that! Well spotted.

Some of my favourite clips today have been of him driving the 10th at The Belfry. I've played that hole many times but the closest I ever got was the water.

May you rest in peace, oh true legend, and may we thank God for you, every time we tee the ball up against the Americans in the Ryder Cup, the competition you made your own!

Pride Fighter

RIP. An amazing person and amazing golfer. My favourite of all time. Loved the game because of him and I always love golfers with amazing short games even to this day because of him.

RIP to a legend and inspiration.

Pisco Sour

RIP Seve :(

madds

f22 wrote: »

"He was taking a shot once and a little boy could be heard rattling coins in his pocket behind him," Wentworth Golf Club chief executive Julian Small told Sky News.

"Seve turned round and asked the boy, 'Are you nervous?' The boy said he was and Seve smiled at him and said, 'So am I.'

"That was the kind of guy he was."

Says it all really!

That clip is at 4:35 in this video. Ah the memories.

Trampas

funeral is on wednesday.

I wonder will any of the usa based players come over for the funeral and mess up their preparation up to tpc sawgrass

thebaz

dont usually post in golf - but Seve was more than a legend - so sad

Seve B. R.I.P.

SARZY

Ruu wrote: »

A legend, done great things for the European golf especially. Rest in peace.

When David Gilford made his Ryder Cup debut at Kiawah, the most prominent English player of the time was paired with him and went on to treat him like s**t in the game, and they were hammered. The great English player hardly spoke to his 'partner' and Gilfords confidence, on his first appearance took a hammering as well.
On his second appearance in the Ryder Cup at Oak Hill, he was paired with Seve, who put his arm around him and told him he was a great player and boosted his confidence so much that he went on to make a large contribution to that famous win, including a famous Point won with Seve that day.
He was the greatest European golfer of any generation. A tigerish competitor and at the same time a Gentleman.
What a pity he never played on the Seniors tour and what a pity we will never see him again.

PhilipMarlowe

Also love the pic of him here http://www.golf-monthly.co.uk/galleries/9645/1/1/european-tour-player-of-the-year-winners.html

Almaviva

nlgbbbblth wrote: »

This clip is particularly memorable.

RIP

It is. I'm somewhere in the crowd on the far side of the green before the camera zooms in on the ball (cant see myself though!). Took up the game after being utterly hooked watching him win the 84 Open.

No golfer since Palmer has inspired such adoring support from fans (and probably none except maybe Jones had before Palmer). Seve had some indefinable carisma quality that I think goes beyond even the victories and the magical shortgame and ability to extract himself from the impossible situation. The heart on the sleeve emotion meant we could all identify with the see-sawing frustration and elation that is the essence of golf. We knew, even if we couldnt play it his way, that we did feel it like he did. A sad early loss.

Almaviva

Licksy wrote: »

Also love the pic of him here http://www.golf-monthly.co.uk/galleries/9645/1/1/european-tour-player-of-the-year-winners.html

It is indeed. Always liked it.

This one is surely the most iconic though :

mr.mickels

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A.Partridge wrote: »

Seve was quite simply the most 'watchable' golfer to have played the modern game.

A complete one-off, we'll not see his like again.

RIP

Very unique character, and also his individual contributions to the growth of the European Tour, which was a very limited tour before his arrival. And that he was the driving force of the European Ryder Cup team and played with real fire to beat the americans all added to our affection for him, would the Ryder Cup even be still played if it wasn't for Seve raising the entire profile of the tournament and making it a real competition, would it have been seen as too old-fashioned in the busy modern pros calendar, like the Dunhill Cup?
It is difficult to imagine how any future player could have such an influence on European Golf as Seve had considering the timing of his career on top of his charisma.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZysiTTWey3w

Kace

For anyone who knows Druids Glen or was at the Seve trophy in 2002 you will remember that Seve's driving was absolutely all over the place but he got up and down from everywhere !

I was beside him when he hit this shot. This is the 9th hole in Druids Glen. He basically pull hooked the ball into the crap on the left, before the big trees. This is literally in a few inches deep of brambles. When I saw where this ball was my only thoughts were lob wedge out sideways on to fairway. Not so for Seve - he hacked out a wedge over those big trees in front and up in front of the Green. Chip and putt then for par.

Unbelievable Seve - heartbreaking matchplay for his opponents (Harrington)!!

Watch these 2 clips.

Legend - RIP

TentCrasher

The man was a legend.
R.I.P

Morrisseeee

Legend, hero, great man, may you hit many more greens in heaven Seve, RIP.
/Great thread, a fitting tribute to him.

Just to add, I play Cork GC at least once a year, and every time I tee it up on the 11th I convince myself that I can hit it past Seve's tree, but even on a foreward tee with a gale behind me I fail miserably, and I guess it just reminds me of the gulf in class !!

L.O.F.T

Every time I think of Seve I see this shot. It's not one of his famous chip-ins or major winning putts or scrambling for par.
In this shot he's on the 13th at Augusta during the 1986 masters (Jacks last major win).The tree lined fairways accentuate the sounds of golf balls being hit pure. I love Seve's set-up, the pure strike the colours of Augusta with the sunlight shining through on the fairway. Pure magic, everything I love about golf is in this video clip.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxkdMIViGPs