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Seve Ballesteros
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Spanish professional golfer (1957–2011)
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Seve Ballesteros, born Severiano Ballesteros Sota in 1957 in Pedreña, Spain, was a Spanish professional golfer and athlete. He began his work period in 1974 and concluded it in 2007. Standing 183 cm tall and weighing 84 kg, he competed in golf and held a ranking of 1. Ballesteros was a member of the World Golf Hall of Fame and received the Princess of Asturias Award for Sports.
He authored several books, including *Natural golf*, *Seve*, and *Illustrated Natural Golf*. Ballesteros spoke Spanish and was a citizen of Spain. He died of natural causes on May 7, 2011, in his birthplace of Pedreña.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 4
Top works
- Natural golf
- Seve
- Illustrated Natural Golf
via Open Library + Wikidata
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 3
- Total plays
- 4
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Seve+Ballesteros">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,995x
- Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality for 282 causes of death in 195 countries and territories, 1980–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 6,186x
- Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 84 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 3,907x
- Pretreatment technologies for an efficient bioethanol production process based on enzymatic hydrolysis: A review
· 2010 · cited 3,227x
- [19] Integrated methods for the construction of three-dimensional models and computational probing of structure-function relations in G protein-coupled receptors
· 1995 · cited 2,718x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- 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 ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1988 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 2004 )
- Former tours
- PGA Tour European Tour
- Highest ranking
- 1 (27 April 1986), (61 weeks)
- European tour
- 50 ( 1st all time )
- Masters tournament
- Won : 1980 , 1983
- Pga championship
- 5th: 1984
- U s open
- 3rd: 1987
- The open championship
- Won : 1979 , 1984 , 1988
- World golf hall of fame
- 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
via Wikipedia infobox
Sports profile
- Sport
- Golf
- Team
- _Deceased Golf
- Position
- Golfer
- Nationality
- Spain
via TheSportsDB
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Encyclopedic overview
Signature
Severiano Ballesteros Sota ( Spanish pronunciation: [seβeˈɾjano βaʎesˈteɾos]; 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.
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