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5 OCTOBER 2008. SEVERIANO BALLESTEROS
IS DIAGNOSED WITH A BRAIN TUMOUR.

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MAY 7th 2011

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It's not fair he had to go

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at fifty-four.

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BALDOMERO ‘MERIN’ BALLESTEROS
SEVE'S BROTHER

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It's just not fair.

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I know it happens to
a lot of people

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even many kids...

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and I get it,

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I totally get it.

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But losing your brother,

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when he didn't have time to enjoy life,
broadly speaking,

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as he should have,

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to lose him...

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and bidding us farewell, on top of that.

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That's...

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deep and painful.

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The house where we grew up

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was as modest

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as a house can be.

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There were

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no luxuries at all.

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Just the basics, I'd say.

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MANUEL BALLESTEROS
SEVE'S BROTHER

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Maybe not even that, not even the basics.

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There were essentially four rooms.

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My parents used to sleep in one of

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the bedrooms and there was another one

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for my two older brothers,

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while Seve and I used to sleep

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in the third bedroom.

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By the way, there was no bathroom,

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VICENTE BALLESTEROS
SEVE'S BROTHER

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no toilet.

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The toilet was

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the cowshed and

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we'd wash outdoors with

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a basin we had.

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The village was
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hardworking people

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and we lived...

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some were farmers,

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others were...

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fishermen.

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Everyone earned their living as

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best they could.

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I'd say he was
my father's favourite son

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and pretty much the same
for my mother, I think.

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And he was the youngest,
of course.

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He was our little boy

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and we had to spoil him a bit,

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he was pampered.
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we all did that a bit,
spoiling him.

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He also regarded his father
as if he were a god.

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He could see he was very big.

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He had been rowing
champion of Spain in traineras.

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Because of that, he used to consider
him as someone truly great.

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Besides, my father was very big,
with huge hands.

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Well, we began playing golf

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mostly because our parents needed us to.

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They came from a very humble family

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and an extra income was always needed.

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And of course, you could earn that

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income working as a caddie.

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At the time, we had nothing.

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Not even bicycles, nothing,

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nothing at all
to have fun with.

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And of course,
working as a caddie.

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There was a caddie championship

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every year and that's
where the passion comes from.

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He was eight years younger, and

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I won a very important tournament at 19.

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Of course, he was 11 when

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that happened. So, he could see

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a brother of his

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playing a sport like golf

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which he also liked

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or which he could

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come to enjoy.

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Did he use to run away at night, as well?

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Yeah, even at night, under the moonlight.

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Always on the golf course, always

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with a club, hitting the ball,

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like around midnight or

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thereabouts.

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Were all the brothers like that or

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did Severiano run away more often?

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He always stood out, on everything.

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That reminds me of the time when he

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went to tend the cows.

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He left the cows unattended

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and ran away to the golf course, to play.

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And another time when I was

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over there, he threw a ball

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at me and hit me right

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in the middle of my face.

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Where did he throw it from?

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Some 100 metres away. I was coming

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down the stairs when the ball

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struck me right in the face.

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My father used to say,

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very, very often,

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when we were all

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looking for him...

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my father would listen to
all our conversations

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and say: ‘leave the kid alone,
he knows what he's doing’.

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He used to want the family to

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have dinner early,

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so he could then run away to

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the golf course, to play.

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The full moon, the stars would be

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shining in the night sky,

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and so on and so on.

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That used to light up
the golf course a lot.

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He'd really like being on his own.

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Actually, when playing golf,

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he'd very often

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play alone.

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Actually,

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he'd jump over the

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wall of the golf course,

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he'd jump over and play

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under the moonlight.

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He also used to
play on the beach, at first.

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In the beginning, when he was younger.

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In theory, I was going to school.

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The thing is that after

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the first 200 metres

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I had a 5-iron club hidden

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and I'd swap the books

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for the club, leave the books,

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take the club and run away to

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play golf before anyone could see me.

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Seve's 3-iron was
talked about a lot.

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As far as I can remember,

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he stole it from the caddie master,

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who was called Chi,

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when he wasn't even a caddie himself.

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He noticed a broken windowpane
at the back of the house

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where the clubs were kept.

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And he grabbed one.

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The first one that he laid his hands on.

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He didn't bother checking to see
if it was a 5 or a 7.

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It was a 3-iron, but only
the clubhead, with no shaft.

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And then,
when that...

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He had to fit it

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with a shaft,
which he got from the bushes.

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His priority was,

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once he got an iron

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in his hands, to play golf.

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And it was as if there was something
inside him,

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some sort of instinct that said to him:

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‘Hey, look, today after recess,

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leave school and
don't come back until tomorrow’.

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And that's what my brother
really used to do.

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We were lucky.

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We had the privilege of

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playing a sport
as beautiful as golf and

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of achieving many things,
specially him.

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Because Seve was....

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as everybody knows,

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he became World Number One.

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Seve was self-made.

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Seve did everything by himself.

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No one taught him
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It all came to him naturally.

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He was a genius.
He was all pure skill.

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He had an unbelievable imagination.

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He learned to play with his hands.

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With the head,

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with rhythm

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and with the hands.

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Everything developed
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He grew up, he caddied
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One of them was
Santiago Ortiz de la Torre,

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a great doctor
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I still remember him.

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I'm going to introduce you

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to Dr Santiago Ortiz de la Torre,

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the best children's doctor in Santander,

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and the person who taught
me to play golf.

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I used to tell him to stand

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in front of me and then I'd swing

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and consequently hit the ball,

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something we referred to as
‘zarpera’ (swipe).

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Swipe, yeah.

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Swipe, as from a paw.

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So, he would see me hitting the ball

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and I used to ask him:

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‘did you see that swing?’

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‘Yes, sir’, he'd reply.

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‘Well, if you ever want

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to be a world champion,

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if you ever want to
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that's exactly what you should never do,

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what I just did’.

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They used to play nine holes in the

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morning on Sundays and then he'd invite

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him to watch the local football team,

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Racing de Santander.

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When we played a game,

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I'd give him a head start.

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I always let him

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lead up to the 17th hole

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but on the 18th
I would tell him to do a couple of

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things the wrong way round, the exact

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opposite of what he had to do.

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So, I always beat him and

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got to watch the match
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All thanks to this gentleman.

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When he was 13 years old, yeah,

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13 and above, 13, 14,

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I already noticed it very soon, because

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he was an outstanding boy
when it came to golf.

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He was...

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the best player that I had ever seen
at that age.

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Rather, I had never seen
anything like it before.

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Seve became a lot more mature in

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every aspect, in every aspect.

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Not just in sports.

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Severiano, how old are you?

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20.

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You're just a kid, right?

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Well, sort of.

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Maybe you're as rich in experiences as

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an older person, is that what you mean?

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May be.

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Prone to violence?

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No.

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Responsible?

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Quite.

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Liar?

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I don't think so.

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And cynical?

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Neither, of course.

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He is, rather he was,

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a very fast learning kid.

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Gary Player, from South Africa, was

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the singles champion of this tournament.

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Note the hands holding the club

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with a perfect technique.

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Seve truly admired Gary Player

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for one simple reason.

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And that's because Seve went

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to La Manga in 1972

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to work as a caddie

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and Gary Player was there.

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GARY PLAYER
WINNER OF 9 MAJORS

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He was bewildered by the

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sheer number of white balls lying in

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front of him.

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Because Seve had never seen

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a brand new white ball.

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He noticed that he used to work out.

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He always carried
a set of weights with him,

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small weights,

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and he already took a
liking to Gary Player.

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I like him a lot for...

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his professionalism and his

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determination and above all, for

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how hard it's been for him to

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achieve what he has.

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Seve saw something in Gary Player

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that he had never seen in

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other players.

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Courage, ambition, determination,

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which is exactly what Seve displayed
throughout his career, too.

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I met Dr Campuzano
on this very golf course,

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Real Golf de Pedreña.

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He used to play here.

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He was a doctor

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and used to come

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here every summer.

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He was a pretty good player.

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Once we had lunch together,

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the two of us on our own.

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We talked about this and that

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and I said:

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‘I've got a brother who's going

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to be very, very good’.

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He asked: ‘how are his finances?

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How will he get ahead?'

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I replied:

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‘well, I'll finance him

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as much as I can for as long as I can’.

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But he said:

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‘no way, mate,

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how the heck are you going to do that?

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I'll do it’.

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His offer came from the heart.

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He told me he was a great player,

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still a young boy but that he

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could be something out of the ordinary.

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He then said:

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‘he needs some support’.

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So, when I had the chance,

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I paid for him

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to go to South Africa.

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He spent two months

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in South Africa.

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The kid performed fairly well.

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From then on, he began getting ahead

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and since he's cut out to be

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a great champion...

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he became Severiano.

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That's how the whole affair began.

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He never asked for anything

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in return, right?

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Usually, people say:

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‘I'll help you, but on one condition’.

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Not in this case.

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We played the Spanish Championship

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in San Cugat in 1974.

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That's when I first met Severiano.

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So, we finish playing,

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MANUEL PIÑERO
EUROPEAN RYDER CUP TEAM MEMBER (1981-1985)

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I win the championship and a mate of mine,

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Manolo Cabrera, congratulates me

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and says:

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‘there's a guy here from

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Pedreña who's an amazing player,

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he's awesome’.

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I went to meet him, said hello

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and he congratulated me. But he was

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very upset, he was nearly in tears.

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So, I said: ‘Severiano, what's

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the matter? You look so upset...

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Didn't you play well?’

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And he replied:

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‘I didn't play as I expected to. I came

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here to fight for the championship

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but I didn't succeed’.

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I said to myself, this guy

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sounds like he's going to be big.

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Why?

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Because he was daring,

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driven, hopeful

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and very determined.

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All the great players have

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something special.

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Some may have it in common with

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other players, others not so much,

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but they all have something special.

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Severiano was a rebel.

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He was a guy who

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told himself, right at the beginning,

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‘I'll show the world

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that I can beat everyone,

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Nicklaus and all the best players in

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the world’.

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And I think that being a rebel,

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being daring, is what

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made Severiano achieve what he did.

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Because if you don't have it in you

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and you're not able to visualise

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that you can do it,

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then it's never going to happen.

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Also, he was gifted

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with awesome skill,

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commitment, work attitude and

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willingness to self-sacrifice.

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The day I met Severiano

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was the week before

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he turned 16.

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I met Severiano

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that week in Estoril.

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I really could see he was a guy...

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VICENTE ‘EL CHINO’ FERNANDEZ
GOLFER AND SEVE'S COACH

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First of all, his physical

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condition was very good for his age.

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How did it happen, turning

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professional at 17?

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At 16, rather.

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Oh, well, it was a little bit...

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Nothing out of the ordinary.

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I could have turned professional

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even before, at 14,

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because I already played

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well enough to compete with

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Spanish players.

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However, there was a rule that

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prevented players from turning

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professional before 16.

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We would go out to play on

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practice days and when

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we began to see the things

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he could do,

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00:20:00,240 --> 00:20:02,280
it was truly...

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As we say in golf, it was ‘wild’.

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What do we mean by that?

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That he didn't control his drive.

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00:20:08,400 --> 00:20:10,200
It wasn't accurate,

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but then he would make

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unbelievable recoveries...

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No matter where the ball was,
always came out well.

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The first tournament I won,

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I won it precisely here, in Pedreña.

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It was the Spanish Under-25 Championship,

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which I won three months after

402
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turning professional. That is, when

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I was just 17.

404
00:20:32,520 --> 00:20:33,480
That's when things began to

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take off a bit.

406
00:20:40,120 --> 00:20:42,000
I heard that Gary Player

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had a plane ready to

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fly from Barajas, Madrid.

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00:20:47,400 --> 00:20:48,640
So, I went to him and

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said: ‘Gary, would it be possible,

411
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I mean...

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Could you do us a favour?

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We're also going to South Africa'.

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And we flew in the plane with him.

415
00:21:16,480 --> 00:21:17,560
When we were in mid-flight,

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he made me lots of questions.

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00:21:19,600 --> 00:21:21,120
Seve was sitting facing us.

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I was... I was sitting to

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Gary Player's right,

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next to him.

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And he said:

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‘well, is your brother

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really that good?’

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His performance in South Africa

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wasn't that great, but then again,

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the country was...

427
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Everything was new,

428
00:21:54,440 --> 00:21:56,240
the flight had been very long...

429
00:21:56,400 --> 00:21:58,760
I guess he was
just a kid and

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he must have felt intimidated,

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figuratively speaking.

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I believe it was the best thing that

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could have ever happened to Seve.

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We played four tournaments

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in South Africa

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00:22:11,960 --> 00:22:15,440
and Seve played fairly well,
very well.

437
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The background to the British Open of 1976

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is something out of
a science fiction movie.

439
00:22:54,920 --> 00:22:56,320
The week before

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the British Open

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my brother was

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reaping grass for

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the haystack

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at home, together

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00:23:05,920 --> 00:23:06,920
with my father.

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00:23:07,320 --> 00:23:08,320
What's up?

447
00:23:08,760 --> 00:23:10,880
See? Do I know how to use the reaper,
or don't I?

448
00:23:13,440 --> 00:23:15,280
It's fairly well done.

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So, a kid

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00:23:18,080 --> 00:23:19,960
who had been

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working on the fields

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00:23:22,160 --> 00:23:24,040
with his father just one week before,

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00:23:24,200 --> 00:23:26,080
talking about crickets,

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00:23:26,240 --> 00:23:29,000
cows, whatever...

455
00:23:29,200 --> 00:23:31,240
he suddenly finds himself

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00:23:31,320 --> 00:23:33,360
playing the finals

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00:23:33,440 --> 00:23:35,200
against Johnny Miller.

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JACK NICKLAUS
WINNER OF 18 MAJORS

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His shoes were worn-out.

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00:24:01,840 --> 00:24:03,920
There were, may be, two

461
00:24:03,960 --> 00:24:06,040
or three spikes missing in

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00:24:06,120 --> 00:24:07,520
his left shoe.

463
00:24:07,880 --> 00:24:10,840
But that didn't bother him.

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00:24:11,400 --> 00:24:13,440
I must say that he played

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00:24:13,520 --> 00:24:15,680
some holes awfully. That much is true.

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00:24:15,840 --> 00:24:16,960
But others were

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00:24:17,040 --> 00:24:19,160
flawless, really good.

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00:24:21,320 --> 00:24:23,000
The fact that
he was competing for the Open

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00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:24,520
didn't strike me as ordinary at all.

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00:24:24,600 --> 00:24:27,160
It didn't strike me as normal.

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00:24:40,320 --> 00:24:42,160
Johnny Miller said that it was probably

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00:24:42,160 --> 00:24:43,440
better for Severiano not to have won

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00:24:43,520 --> 00:24:44,720
that tournament.

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00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:47,080
That maybe it would have been detrimental

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00:24:47,080 --> 00:24:47,800
to him.

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00:24:49,280 --> 00:24:50,280
I don't think so.

477
00:24:53,320 --> 00:24:54,920
To be fair, I didn't expect it.

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00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:57,680
I was 19 and had very little experience.

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In fact, I didn't win

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00:24:59,360 --> 00:25:01,320
precisely because of my lack of experience

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00:25:01,560 --> 00:25:02,960
Also, I didn't win because

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00:25:02,960 --> 00:25:03,960
I wasn't ready.

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00:25:05,920 --> 00:25:07,400
Finishing second was better

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00:25:07,520 --> 00:25:09,280
than winning for me,
because that would have

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00:25:09,400 --> 00:25:11,640
entailed a huge responsibility.

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And I don't think I would have been

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00:25:12,800 --> 00:25:14,000
able to deal with it.

488
00:25:14,320 --> 00:25:15,440
I wasn't ready to win.

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00:25:15,880 --> 00:25:17,840
He never stepped on the first hole

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00:25:17,920 --> 00:25:19,880
tee-box thinking about second place,

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00:25:19,920 --> 00:25:21,120
not in any tournament.

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00:25:21,680 --> 00:25:24,400
Been able to win it later on
was an entirely different story.

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00:25:24,680 --> 00:25:26,600
That's when he became

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world famous, because the

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00:25:28,680 --> 00:25:30,600
tournament was broadcast

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00:25:30,680 --> 00:25:32,600
to all parts of the

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world.

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00:25:35,400 --> 00:25:37,080
A STAR IS BORN.

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00:25:37,080 --> 00:25:39,320
A 19-YEAR-OLD BOY
COMES CLOSE TO WINNING

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00:25:39,400 --> 00:25:41,960
THE WORLD'S MOST PRESTIGIOUS
GOLF TOURNAMENT.

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00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:44,080
The British press was all over him.

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00:25:44,080 --> 00:25:46,600
VERY HAPPY

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00:25:46,600 --> 00:25:48,040
He filled many,
many pages in the newspapers.

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00:25:48,040 --> 00:25:49,960
He was asked tons of
questions but he wasn't able to

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00:25:49,960 --> 00:25:52,640
answer them,
because he didn't speak English.

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00:25:52,640 --> 00:25:53,720
They drove him half crazy.

507
00:25:53,720 --> 00:25:55,000
And he hadn't even

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00:25:55,000 --> 00:25:56,000
won the tournament...

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00:26:15,680 --> 00:26:17,440
It was a time when great

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00:26:17,440 --> 00:26:19,600
players seemed to appear

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00:26:19,600 --> 00:26:20,880
spontaneously.

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00:26:22,040 --> 00:26:22,960
The counterparts of the

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00:26:22,960 --> 00:26:23,920
tennis ball boys

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00:26:23,920 --> 00:26:26,600
OLGA VIZA
JOURNALIST

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00:26:26,600 --> 00:26:27,920
were the caddies, who could

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00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:29,680
play wonderfully.

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00:26:30,480 --> 00:26:31,160
Piñero,

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00:26:31,640 --> 00:26:32,760
Garrido,

519
00:26:33,120 --> 00:26:34,400
the Ballesteros brothers...

520
00:26:34,640 --> 00:26:36,240
Why are you called the Spanish Armada?

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00:26:36,640 --> 00:26:38,560
I don't know, maybe it's

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00:26:38,680 --> 00:26:40,040
because of all the tournaments

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00:26:40,040 --> 00:26:41,000
we've won this year.

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00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:42,920
That's something
we had never achieved before.

525
00:26:43,280 --> 00:26:44,600
I think that's all there is.

526
00:26:44,640 --> 00:26:46,560
We've won 9 out of 13.

527
00:26:47,200 --> 00:26:48,160
Maybe that's why...

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00:26:48,160 --> 00:26:49,000
All of them, right?

529
00:26:49,080 --> 00:26:49,760
Yeah, nearly all.

530
00:26:49,840 --> 00:26:50,520
Truly...

531
00:26:50,760 --> 00:26:52,400
The Spanish Armada

532
00:26:52,800 --> 00:26:55,280
was a showboat,

533
00:26:55,560 --> 00:26:59,640
manned by a crew
of amazing

534
00:26:59,880 --> 00:27:03,640
professionals,
true golf workers,

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00:27:04,240 --> 00:27:06,440
who achieved outstanding feats

536
00:27:06,520 --> 00:27:08,040
that no one

537
00:27:08,040 --> 00:27:09,160
ever heard about.

538
00:28:05,720 --> 00:28:07,760
Well, my style is precisely what

539
00:28:07,840 --> 00:28:09,400
people like. That's why they

540
00:28:09,440 --> 00:28:11,120
come to watch me play.

541
00:28:11,200 --> 00:28:13,200
It's fairly spectacular. People

542
00:28:13,320 --> 00:28:15,320
are satisfied and go home

543
00:28:15,440 --> 00:28:17,440
happily, after watching a

544
00:28:17,560 --> 00:28:19,600
couple of shots of mine.

545
00:28:19,720 --> 00:28:21,640
I'm not monotonous like

546
00:28:21,680 --> 00:28:23,320
most players.
My shots are quite spectacular.

547
00:28:23,320 --> 00:28:25,280
That's why I have

548
00:28:25,280 --> 00:28:26,920
a large following.

549
00:28:26,920 --> 00:28:28,840
When playing, he'd do

550
00:28:28,960 --> 00:28:30,880
all sorts of different things.

551
00:28:30,960 --> 00:28:34,120
You can compare it to

552
00:28:34,120 --> 00:28:36,600
Maradona or Messi, for instance.

553
00:28:38,960 --> 00:28:41,680
They used to say he was a wizard,

554
00:28:41,680 --> 00:28:46,000
because he could figure out
and to do things that no one else could.

555
00:28:50,440 --> 00:28:52,280
His shots were most spectacular

556
00:28:52,280 --> 00:28:54,040
EDUARDO ‘EL GATO’ ROMERO
1991 SPANISH OPEN CHAMPION

557
00:28:54,040 --> 00:28:55,280
in the most difficult situations.

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00:28:55,360 --> 00:28:57,160
I've seen him get on his knees
to hit the ball.

559
00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:00,480
If he couldn't get under a tree

560
00:29:00,520 --> 00:29:02,000
he would kneel down

561
00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:03,680
and hit the ball out

562
00:29:03,720 --> 00:29:05,440
while on his knees.

563
00:29:16,160 --> 00:29:19,560
Applauses from the public,
a brilliant shot by Severiano.

564
00:29:24,840 --> 00:29:25,520
WILD DRIVE

565
00:29:40,200 --> 00:29:42,520
GREG NORMAN
TWO-TIME BRITISH OPEN WINNER

566
00:31:40,440 --> 00:31:42,560
In order to show off to the other players

567
00:31:42,560 --> 00:31:45,360
how chill he was before a game,

568
00:31:45,360 --> 00:31:46,600
He would take three balls and balance them

569
00:31:46,640 --> 00:31:48,440
on the palm of his hand,

570
00:31:48,480 --> 00:31:50,680
one on top of each other.

571
00:31:50,680 --> 00:31:52,840
That's not humanly possible!

572
00:31:52,840 --> 00:31:56,040
I tried.
My hands are not steady any more,

573
00:31:56,040 --> 00:31:57,840
but not even then.

574
00:31:57,840 --> 00:31:59,240
I've never met anyone else able to balance

575
00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:00,920
three balls on top of each other.

576
00:32:01,360 --> 00:32:02,760
Every time Seve stepped into the rough

577
00:32:02,760 --> 00:32:04,720
JORGE ANDREU
PHOTOGRAPHER

578
00:32:04,720 --> 00:32:05,720
he would look upwards to the

579
00:32:05,720 --> 00:32:07,080
pine trees, if there were any.

580
00:32:07,080 --> 00:32:08,760
Why?

581
00:32:08,760 --> 00:32:10,440
Because he took it for granted
that he was going to

582
00:32:10,440 --> 00:32:12,680
find the ball and he was already thinking:

583
00:32:12,680 --> 00:32:14,720
‘if I find it over that area, then...’

584
00:32:14,880 --> 00:32:16,080
He was looking for the way out, a gap

585
00:32:16,080 --> 00:32:17,760
in the branches to hit the ball
out through the pine trees.

586
00:32:19,880 --> 00:32:23,680
BILLY FOSTER
SEVE'S CADDIE (1990-1995)

587
00:33:46,520 --> 00:33:47,800
SEVERIANO
H.M. SHOT

588
00:33:47,800 --> 00:33:49,760
1979 was not a normal

589
00:33:49,760 --> 00:33:51,200
year for him.

590
00:33:51,480 --> 00:33:56,200
It didn't find him in a
goodphysical condition.

591
00:33:56,200 --> 00:33:58,240
I've got some issues with my back.

592
00:33:58,400 --> 00:33:59,720
Thankfully, I'm quite

593
00:33:59,720 --> 00:34:01,000
strong so I can...

594
00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:03,880
I can keep playing.

595
00:34:03,880 --> 00:34:04,960
I think that I'll play

596
00:34:04,960 --> 00:34:06,640
next week's tournament and

597
00:34:06,640 --> 00:34:08,120
I'll go home to rest for

598
00:34:08,120 --> 00:34:09,120
two weeks.

599
00:34:58,360 --> 00:35:00,240
The car park shot... I wouldn't say

600
00:35:00,280 --> 00:35:02,160
he did it on purpose, but it was

601
00:35:02,160 --> 00:35:05,200
a brilliant strategy on his part.

602
00:35:08,120 --> 00:35:10,240
JACK NICKLAUS
WINNER OF 18 MAJORS

603
00:35:14,920 --> 00:35:19,240
HALE IRWIN
THREE-TIME US OPEN WINNER

604
00:35:22,920 --> 00:35:25,000
The wind was blowing left to right

605
00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:27,520
and very strongly.

606
00:35:27,520 --> 00:35:29,160
My brother used to say that the

607
00:35:29,200 --> 00:35:31,080
closer you get to the green

608
00:35:31,080 --> 00:35:32,960
with your drive, the higher

609
00:35:32,960 --> 00:35:34,840
the chances of hitting the ball

610
00:35:34,880 --> 00:35:36,760
near the hole with your

611
00:35:36,760 --> 00:35:38,640
second shot or of

612
00:35:38,680 --> 00:35:41,040
hitting it on the green.

613
00:35:41,440 --> 00:35:44,880
That day, his drive was
truly remarkable.

614
00:35:47,120 --> 00:35:51,200
However, the wind carried the ball
a lot further away and

615
00:35:51,240 --> 00:35:53,120
it landed in a car park.

616
00:35:53,120 --> 00:35:55,240
It was a designated car park because

617
00:35:55,240 --> 00:35:57,360
no one in the organisation believed

618
00:35:57,400 --> 00:35:59,520
that any professional player could

619
00:35:59,600 --> 00:36:01,600
reach the area with a drive.

620
00:36:28,720 --> 00:36:30,680
That's when Vicente told me:

621
00:36:30,960 --> 00:36:32,960
‘if he keeps focused, he's winning

622
00:36:33,040 --> 00:36:34,640
the tournament, if he keeps focused’.

623
00:36:35,040 --> 00:36:36,960
And I told him: ‘it would be odd,

624
00:36:37,160 --> 00:36:39,160
for our brother to loose focus’.

625
00:36:40,680 --> 00:36:45,000
HALE IRWIN
THREE-TIME US OPEN WINNER

626
00:36:51,280 --> 00:36:54,560
Usually in golf you can't be certain
of a win until the game is over, but

627
00:36:54,560 --> 00:36:56,360
I was sure in 16... When I putted

628
00:36:56,360 --> 00:36:57,720
the ball into the cup, a putt of

629
00:36:57,920 --> 00:37:00,040
about 5 or 6 metres,

630
00:37:00,520 --> 00:37:03,000
I said to myself:
‘this is it, I'm the winner’.

631
00:37:14,640 --> 00:37:17,560
I was as happy as the next man,

632
00:37:17,560 --> 00:37:20,920
at least as much, probably
more than anyone else.

633
00:37:20,920 --> 00:37:24,840
We were on the right-hand side of
the green. Baldomero and myself

634
00:37:24,840 --> 00:37:28,120
jumped over the crowd,
stomping on the spectators.

635
00:37:28,120 --> 00:37:31,840
I bet they wondered where we
were going, dashing forward like mad.

636
00:37:31,840 --> 00:37:33,800
We hugged each other and

637
00:37:33,800 --> 00:37:38,120
for the first time in my life
I saw Seve cry.

638
00:38:03,680 --> 00:38:05,560
The suffering and endurance

639
00:38:05,560 --> 00:38:07,200
involved in a golf tournament are

640
00:38:07,200 --> 00:38:10,680
very hard to explain and convey.

641
00:38:10,720 --> 00:38:12,960
It demands 4 hours
of unwavering concentration,

642
00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:15,400
of non-stop struggle
against the course itself

643
00:38:15,400 --> 00:38:18,360
and against many other things.

644
00:38:18,360 --> 00:38:20,520
It's difficult to explain.

645
00:38:25,240 --> 00:38:27,240
For him, the U.S. Masters at Augusta

646
00:38:27,320 --> 00:38:28,480
was like a marriage.

647
00:38:28,840 --> 00:38:30,640
He liked it because the fairways

648
00:38:30,680 --> 00:38:32,480
were quite wide. He used to say

649
00:38:32,560 --> 00:38:34,360
that he didn't have to limit his drive

650
00:38:34,400 --> 00:38:36,200
there, he could hit the ball

651
00:38:36,280 --> 00:38:37,920
from any angle.

652
00:38:38,200 --> 00:38:39,560
Also, he found it

653
00:38:39,560 --> 00:38:40,760
remarkable that

654
00:38:40,840 --> 00:38:41,800
everything was green.

655
00:38:42,200 --> 00:38:44,680
The course was green, caps on sale

656
00:38:44,680 --> 00:38:47,160
were green,

657
00:38:47,160 --> 00:38:49,840
drinking cups were green...

658
00:38:50,240 --> 00:38:51,640
Everything was green.

659
00:39:26,200 --> 00:39:31,240
KENNETH SCHOFIELD
EUROPEAN TOUR CHIEF EXECUTIVE (1975-2004)

660
00:40:00,200 --> 00:40:04,520
SEVE WILL SOON BECOME
THE SAVIOUR OF THE RYDER CUP

661
00:40:44,280 --> 00:40:49,080
TONY JACKLIN
EUROPEAN RYDER CUP CAPTAIN (1983-1989)

662
00:41:20,200 --> 00:41:24,760
JACK NICKLAUS
WINNER OF 18 MAJORS

663
00:42:20,560 --> 00:42:22,360
I remember, maybe,

664
00:42:22,360 --> 00:42:26,000
the good atmosphere
in the team

665
00:42:29,440 --> 00:42:32,200
and how full of joy
everyone was.

666
00:42:32,640 --> 00:42:35,960
BERNARD GALLACHER
EUROPEAN RYDER CUP CAPTAIN (1991-1995)

667
00:42:42,480 --> 00:42:47,680
You play for a team and
for your continent, for your country

668
00:42:47,680 --> 00:42:49,920
and for the public.

669
00:42:49,920 --> 00:42:51,840
I have competed in tournaments

670
00:42:51,840 --> 00:42:54,240
all over the world and,

671
00:42:54,640 --> 00:42:58,160
to be honest,
here is where I've felt the pressure most

672
00:42:58,160 --> 00:42:59,920
and where is the responsibility.

673
00:44:13,080 --> 00:44:17,800
GEORGE O'GRADY
EUROPEAN TOUR CHIEF EXECUTIVE (2004-2014)

674
00:44:36,360 --> 00:44:39,440
SEVE DEMANDS APPEARANCE MONEY
TO COMPETE IN TOURNAMENTS.

675
00:44:39,440 --> 00:44:41,160
AS A REPRISAL, THE EUROPEAN TOUR

676
00:44:41,160 --> 00:44:42,840
BANS HIM FROM THE 1981 RYDER CUP.

677
00:44:43,600 --> 00:44:46,560
JOHN HOPKINS
JOURNALIST

678
00:45:17,120 --> 00:45:19,960
SEVE BALLESTEROS BANNED
BY THE EUROPEAN PGA

679
00:45:42,440 --> 00:45:44,240
SEVE, THE SUPERCHAMPION

680
00:45:57,640 --> 00:45:59,560
With the benefit of hindsight,

681
00:45:59,640 --> 00:46:01,560
I think he was right.

682
00:46:01,600 --> 00:46:03,520
Because it is in fact common

683
00:46:03,560 --> 00:46:04,800
practice nowadays in most tournaments,

684
00:46:04,880 --> 00:46:06,680
isn't it?

685
00:46:06,720 --> 00:46:08,680
It's not even a contentious
issue, anymore.

686
00:46:10,000 --> 00:46:11,120
But at the time,

687
00:46:11,160 --> 00:46:12,280
it was very controversial

688
00:46:12,280 --> 00:46:13,520
among professionals.

689
00:46:25,480 --> 00:46:31,560
BERNHARD LANGER
TWO-TIME US MASTERS WINNER AT AUGUSTA

690
00:47:31,840 --> 00:47:35,400
WEIRD BRITISH EXCUSE
FOR BALLESTEROS’ ABSENCE

691
00:48:06,920 --> 00:48:12,560
BERNHARD LANGER
TWO-TIME US MASTERS WINNER AT AUGUSTA

692
00:48:19,360 --> 00:48:23,840
SEVE VOWED TO NEVER
PLAY THE RYDER CUP AGAIN

693
00:48:35,840 --> 00:48:39,400
1983 RYDER CUP
PALM BEACH GARDENS, USA

694
00:50:45,400 --> 00:50:47,240
SEVE WILL PLAY THE RYDER CUP

695
00:51:15,400 --> 00:51:17,560
Seve always had this idea

696
00:51:17,560 --> 00:51:19,880
of taking on the Americans.

697
00:53:18,480 --> 00:53:21,280
1985
THE BELFRY, ENGLAND

698
00:54:08,480 --> 00:54:11,760
SAM TORRANCE
EUROPEAN RYDER CUP TEAM MEMBER (1981-1995)

699
00:54:30,680 --> 00:54:35,240
SEVE'S LEGEND IN THE
RYDER CUP IS BORN

700
00:55:10,760 --> 00:55:12,000
There's always been

701
00:55:12,000 --> 00:55:13,840
an extra notch of rivalry,

702
00:55:13,840 --> 00:55:15,720
maybe even jealousy,

703
00:55:16,200 --> 00:55:18,160
on the part of the American players.

704
00:55:18,160 --> 00:55:19,080
Fair enough...

705
00:55:22,040 --> 00:55:23,440
As such, Seve never wanted

706
00:55:23,440 --> 00:55:25,760
to play in the US.

707
00:55:26,680 --> 00:55:29,000
He loathed the place.

708
00:55:29,000 --> 00:55:31,800
I don't know if that was because

709
00:55:31,800 --> 00:55:33,480
it was too big for him or whatever,

710
00:55:33,480 --> 00:55:36,280
but he didn't like the US.

711
00:55:36,280 --> 00:55:40,120
The players there didn't stick together,
they didn't have team spirit.

712
00:55:43,040 --> 00:55:44,560
Seve was obsessed with defeating

713
00:55:44,600 --> 00:55:46,440
the Americans.
That was due, mainly,

714
00:55:46,480 --> 00:55:48,960
to his beginnings in the United States.

715
00:55:48,960 --> 00:55:51,640
They weren't easy.
No one made him any favours.

716
00:55:51,880 --> 00:55:52,720
It was made obvious to him

717
00:55:52,720 --> 00:55:54,360
JOSE MARIA OLAZABAL
TWO-TIME US MASTERS WINNER AT AUGUSTA

718
00:55:54,360 --> 00:55:56,600
that he wasn't welcome

719
00:55:56,600 --> 00:55:58,280
and that aggravated him big time.

720
00:56:35,160 --> 00:56:37,960
There's one anecdote of a time when

721
00:56:37,960 --> 00:56:41,880
he was getting dressed
in the changing room.

722
00:56:41,880 --> 00:56:43,320
He was playing one of the

723
00:56:43,320 --> 00:56:45,080
big PGA tournaments.

724
00:56:45,880 --> 00:56:47,760
So, he was sitting down,

725
00:56:47,760 --> 00:56:50,960
changing his shoes and he could

726
00:56:50,960 --> 00:56:53,800
hear two or three
American players chatting

727
00:56:54,000 --> 00:56:55,800
in the nearby hallway.

728
00:56:56,080 --> 00:56:57,280
They were talking

729
00:56:57,280 --> 00:56:58,720
about the tournament

730
00:56:58,720 --> 00:57:00,280
and at some point in the conversation

731
00:57:00,360 --> 00:57:02,560
the name Severiano Ballesteros
came up.

732
00:57:03,600 --> 00:57:05,280
They began to question

733
00:57:05,280 --> 00:57:06,720
what a Spaniard was doing

734
00:57:06,800 --> 00:57:09,880
there, someone who,
first of all,

735
00:57:10,040 --> 00:57:12,400
didn't have the necessary level,

736
00:57:12,400 --> 00:57:14,080
and secondly,

737
00:57:14,080 --> 00:57:16,640
was trying to,

738
00:57:16,640 --> 00:57:19,760
somehow,
take the money off the

739
00:57:19,760 --> 00:57:21,520
American players.

740
00:57:21,600 --> 00:57:23,480
That was really painful for him.

741
00:57:47,200 --> 00:57:49,760
In the US he was required to compete

742
00:57:49,760 --> 00:57:51,560
in 15 tournaments a year, at least.
That was the minimum amount

743
00:57:51,560 --> 00:57:53,960
demanded and Severiano refused.

744
00:57:54,040 --> 00:57:57,160
He wanted to be free to
play wherever he felt like.

745
00:57:57,240 --> 00:57:59,080
As I already said a long time ago,

746
00:57:59,160 --> 00:58:01,000
playing 15 tournaments in the US and then

747
00:58:01,080 --> 00:58:02,920
coming to Europe to play is really hard.

748
00:58:03,000 --> 00:58:05,760
It's very demanding, can't be done.

749
00:58:13,720 --> 00:58:15,560
He was ready to play 8 or 10 tournaments.

750
00:58:15,560 --> 00:58:18,520
Maybe 10 at the very most.

751
00:58:18,520 --> 00:58:20,240
Also, he wanted to be free to

752
00:58:20,240 --> 00:58:22,520
choose the tournaments, so he could spend
more time in Europe

753
00:58:22,520 --> 00:58:24,360
and, therefore,
be closer to his loved ones

754
00:58:24,360 --> 00:58:25,720
and to his family.

755
00:58:25,720 --> 00:58:28,600
VICENTE ‘EL CHINO’ FERNANDEZ
GOLFER AND SEVE'S COACH

756
00:58:28,600 --> 00:58:30,400
He refused to play

757
00:58:30,480 --> 00:58:32,360
more than five or six tournaments

758
00:58:32,480 --> 00:58:34,360
and that's when he

759
00:58:34,440 --> 00:58:36,320
was banned from the PGA Tour and

760
00:58:36,440 --> 00:58:38,320
had issues with the president of

761
00:58:38,400 --> 00:58:41,120
the American PGA.

762
00:58:42,040 --> 00:58:44,560
He'd lose his temper
every time he thought someone

763
00:58:44,560 --> 00:58:46,200
was being unfair to someone else.

764
00:58:49,920 --> 00:58:54,440
He didn't care if the person being
unfair was a big name

765
00:58:54,440 --> 00:58:58,160
or had an important position.

766
00:58:59,160 --> 00:59:01,120
He always spoke his mind.

767
00:59:01,120 --> 00:59:03,120
Didn't rely on anyone to convey
the message.He'd say it himself.

768
00:59:03,120 --> 00:59:06,480
He was very much upfront,
very much upfront.

769
00:59:08,120 --> 00:59:17,680
BERNHARD LANGER
TWO-TIME US MASTERS WINNER AT AUGUSTA

770
00:59:31,280 --> 00:59:34,320
They didn't accept it.
There's nothing we can do.

771
00:59:34,400 --> 00:59:36,880
It seems they're not making
European players any favours, are they?

772
00:59:37,040 --> 00:59:39,680
No. It's the best way to be sure
that American players always win.

773
00:59:39,800 --> 00:59:42,040
If they play on their own,
they will always win.

774
00:59:47,200 --> 00:59:48,960
I believe that

775
00:59:49,000 --> 00:59:50,760
the American Tour
was increasingly

776
00:59:50,840 --> 00:59:52,600
in need of Severiano Ballesteros

777
00:59:52,640 --> 00:59:55,160
taking part in it.

778
00:59:55,160 --> 00:59:57,400
That much became obvious later on.

779
00:59:57,400 --> 01:00:02,040
Because money talks
in the US and having Severiano

780
01:00:02,040 --> 01:00:06,280
in a tournament always
drew a larger crowd and

781
01:00:06,280 --> 01:00:10,880
increased advertising revenue
for organisers and sponsors.

782
01:00:25,800 --> 01:00:28,280
Winning the US Masters is the

783
01:00:28,280 --> 01:00:32,360
most ambitious goal that any
professional player can have.

784
01:00:32,400 --> 01:00:37,720
Most importantly, it means beating
the Americans in their own backyard,

785
01:00:37,720 --> 01:00:41,120
in a tournament with such a long
tradition and so relevant...

786
01:00:41,120 --> 01:00:44,440
It's something very, very special.

787
01:00:48,200 --> 01:00:51,920
The rows he may have had
with other players were a joke

788
01:00:51,920 --> 01:00:54,160
SERGIO GIL
JOURNALIST

789
01:00:54,240 --> 01:00:56,080
compared to the ones
he had with the referees.

790
01:01:02,080 --> 01:01:03,040
JOHN PARAMOR

791
01:01:03,120 --> 01:01:06,720
CHIEF REFEREE PGA
EUROPEAN TOUR (1976-2020)

792
01:01:07,760 --> 01:01:09,360
Victory is at stake.

793
01:01:09,360 --> 01:01:11,280
1994 VOLVO MASTERS
VALDERRAMA, SPAIN

794
01:01:11,280 --> 01:01:12,680
He's playing against Monti.

795
01:01:12,760 --> 01:01:14,240
It's the 18th hole.

796
01:01:16,000 --> 01:01:18,000
Severiano plays a powerful shot,

797
01:01:18,120 --> 01:01:20,120
the ball flies over the fairway and

798
01:01:20,240 --> 01:01:22,240
lands right by a tree trunk.

799
01:01:22,360 --> 01:01:24,480
But there's a molehill

800
01:01:24,480 --> 01:01:26,080
under the tree.

801
01:01:59,560 --> 01:02:01,400
He would call a referee and the
referee would say:

802
01:02:01,480 --> 01:02:02,520
‘no, Seve, you can't do that’.

803
01:02:02,640 --> 01:02:05,120
He would call another one and
he would also say: ‘no, Seve’.

804
01:02:05,400 --> 01:02:08,320
Until the fourth or fifth would say:
‘all right, Seve’.

805
01:04:28,360 --> 01:04:32,680
Severiano had a huge respect
for John, too. He respected his work,

806
01:04:32,680 --> 01:04:35,920
because he knew it
was hard and difficult.

807
01:04:35,920 --> 01:04:39,600
He always respected him.

808
01:05:08,040 --> 01:05:10,960
1984 BRITISH OPEN
ST ANDREWS, SCOTLAND

809
01:05:10,960 --> 01:05:13,200
The 1984 British Open in

810
01:05:13,280 --> 01:05:15,520
St Andrews was,

811
01:05:15,600 --> 01:05:17,840
for him, specially

812
01:05:17,920 --> 01:05:23,640
meaningful, more than
any other tournament.

813
01:05:24,680 --> 01:05:27,120
St. Andrews is where the first seven

814
01:05:27,200 --> 01:05:32,240
rules of golf were laid out
for the first time.

815
01:05:32,560 --> 01:05:35,760
For him, there was nothing
like a win in St Andrews.

816
01:05:37,520 --> 01:05:45,200
BERNHARD LANGER
TWO-TIME US MASTERS WINNER AT AUGUSTA

817
01:06:00,360 --> 01:06:02,480
He played very well. He played

818
01:06:02,600 --> 01:06:04,720
perfectly against Tom Watson,

819
01:06:04,880 --> 01:06:07,000
a player who had been

820
01:06:07,120 --> 01:06:09,240
climbing the ranks and

821
01:06:09,360 --> 01:06:11,680
was out to get him.

822
01:06:12,480 --> 01:06:14,320
Severiano had an important advantage:

823
01:06:14,320 --> 01:06:16,160
he was playing first.

824
01:06:16,200 --> 01:06:18,560
And when you play first,

825
01:06:18,560 --> 01:06:22,000
there's tremendous pressure
on the other player.

826
01:06:23,640 --> 01:06:27,440
Severiano was very good
at holding his horses,

827
01:06:27,520 --> 01:06:29,760
as he used to said,

828
01:06:29,800 --> 01:06:34,000
and he birdied in 18.
That's when he pumped his fist.

829
01:06:39,160 --> 01:06:42,160
These gestures were turned
into his own logo,

830
01:06:42,240 --> 01:06:44,560
when he pumped his fist like this.

831
01:06:47,560 --> 01:06:50,280
He shouted to the TVcameras: ‘I got it in,

832
01:06:50,280 --> 01:06:53,320
I got it in, I got it in’.

833
01:06:57,360 --> 01:07:01,400
I was like: ‘I got it in,
I got it in’,doing like this.

834
01:07:01,960 --> 01:07:03,560
The British Open represents, from

835
01:07:03,600 --> 01:07:05,600
my point of view, the tradition,

836
01:07:05,680 --> 01:07:07,960
the history
and a much more inventive type of golf.

837
01:07:08,160 --> 01:07:09,760
SEVE, ‘THE MASTER’

838
01:07:17,440 --> 01:07:20,000
1984: SEVE'S PLAY IS AT ITS BEST.

839
01:07:20,000 --> 01:07:22,400
BUT IT WON'T LAST LONG.

840
01:07:35,520 --> 01:07:37,280
Seve left everything when

841
01:07:37,360 --> 01:07:40,040
his father was diagnosed with an illness.

842
01:07:48,320 --> 01:07:51,440
He was terrified of losing
his father.

843
01:07:51,640 --> 01:07:54,240
For him that was the most important thing
in the world at the time.

844
01:07:54,840 --> 01:07:56,760
When there was only

845
01:07:56,960 --> 01:07:58,720
one possible outcome,

846
01:07:59,480 --> 01:08:01,720
Seve fell apart.

847
01:08:19,480 --> 01:08:21,240
His parents

848
01:08:21,240 --> 01:08:24,240
used to keep his feet on the ground.

849
01:08:24,720 --> 01:08:27,040
They were his connection
to an inner essence

850
01:08:27,040 --> 01:08:30,440
that he wished to never leave behind.

851
01:08:32,080 --> 01:08:34,320
He had wanted to win

852
01:08:35,000 --> 01:08:37,920
that US Masters for his father.

853
01:08:37,920 --> 01:08:40,920
Instead, it made him suffer even more.

854
01:09:07,040 --> 01:09:09,040
We were playing with Tom Kite.

855
01:09:09,200 --> 01:09:13,240
Tom Watson's group
was in front of us.

856
01:09:13,600 --> 01:09:18,240
And stillfurther ahead
was Jack Nicklaus's group.

857
01:09:20,800 --> 01:09:25,680
TOM KITE
US RYDER CUP TEAM MEMBER (1979-1993)

858
01:09:42,960 --> 01:09:44,800
We went to 15 and
he hit a really long drive,

859
01:09:45,000 --> 01:09:46,800
right on the middle of the fairway.

860
01:09:46,880 --> 01:09:48,560
When we got to the ball, first

861
01:09:48,640 --> 01:09:50,240
we had to decide what club

862
01:09:50,360 --> 01:09:51,440
to use next.

863
01:09:51,520 --> 01:09:53,720
So, we were discussing
the clubs.

864
01:09:53,960 --> 01:09:56,480
4 Iron, 5 Iron.

865
01:09:56,760 --> 01:09:58,600
Finally, we agreed:

866
01:09:58,600 --> 01:09:59,640
‘OK, use a 4 Iron

867
01:09:59,640 --> 01:10:01,000
with a softer, more gentle shot,

868
01:10:01,000 --> 01:10:02,880
rather than hitting the ball harder

869
01:10:02,880 --> 01:10:04,240
with a 5 Iron’.

870
01:10:04,800 --> 01:10:05,760
That's what we agreed.

871
01:10:05,760 --> 01:10:07,680
Meanwhile, Tom Watson's group

872
01:10:07,720 --> 01:10:09,640
was, like I mentioned before,

873
01:10:09,640 --> 01:10:10,600
in the 15th hole.

874
01:10:10,600 --> 01:10:12,040
They were very slow.

875
01:10:30,360 --> 01:10:32,680
Jack Nicklaus' group was at 16.

876
01:10:32,680 --> 01:10:33,840
Likewise....

877
01:10:33,920 --> 01:10:36,000
There seemed to be a sort of build-up

878
01:10:36,040 --> 01:10:38,120
of people over there

879
01:10:38,200 --> 01:10:41,080
that made things very slow.

880
01:11:04,440 --> 01:11:06,120
Something odd was going on.

881
01:11:06,320 --> 01:11:08,000
I've never been to a Masters

882
01:11:08,200 --> 01:11:09,880
or to a Major championship

883
01:11:10,080 --> 01:11:11,760
or to any other kind of

884
01:11:11,960 --> 01:11:15,520
tournament where I've had to wait
for 15 minutes, at the very least.

885
01:11:15,720 --> 01:11:19,080
That's how long
we were there.

886
01:11:53,720 --> 01:11:55,600
At some point

887
01:11:55,680 --> 01:11:57,280
I told him: ‘Seve, let's go for a

888
01:11:57,360 --> 01:12:00,440
short walk away from the green,
so we keep warm’.

889
01:12:01,560 --> 01:12:03,440
And this we did.

890
01:12:03,520 --> 01:12:05,400
We walked 70 to 80 metres

891
01:12:05,480 --> 01:12:06,720
away from the green

892
01:12:06,960 --> 01:12:08,200
and came back.

893
01:12:08,560 --> 01:12:11,280
When we got back,

894
01:12:11,320 --> 01:12:13,080
it was Seve's turn to take a shot.

895
01:12:13,320 --> 01:12:14,440
He set up,

896
01:12:14,440 --> 01:12:16,280
hit the ball poorly and

897
01:12:16,360 --> 01:12:17,320
sent it to the water.

898
01:13:02,360 --> 01:13:04,160
I've also had terrible moments,

899
01:13:04,240 --> 01:13:05,800
of course.

900
01:13:05,840 --> 01:13:08,600
If I were to choose a lowest point,

901
01:13:08,600 --> 01:13:11,960
it would probably be the 1986 US Masters.

902
01:13:18,680 --> 01:13:20,240
Mostly because my father had

903
01:13:20,280 --> 01:13:22,160
passed away shortly before and

904
01:13:22,160 --> 01:13:24,040
before he died, I promised him

905
01:13:24,080 --> 01:13:27,040
that I'd win the US Masters in his memory.

906
01:13:27,040 --> 01:13:30,040
That's why it was such
a hard, hard blow.

907
01:13:30,240 --> 01:13:31,520
I'll never forget it.

908
01:13:34,000 --> 01:13:36,040
We never talked about that shot again.

909
01:13:36,040 --> 01:13:38,600
He kept his feelings to himself
until the day he died.

910
01:13:38,600 --> 01:13:40,520
He never mentioned it to me
and neither did I to him.

911
01:13:50,000 --> 01:13:51,880
Pretty much the same happened

912
01:13:51,960 --> 01:13:55,320
the following year, only
differently this time.

913
01:13:56,040 --> 01:13:58,040
That was the 1987 Masters,

914
01:13:58,080 --> 01:14:00,000
during the playoff.

915
01:14:00,000 --> 01:14:01,000
He hit the ball to

916
01:14:01,000 --> 01:14:02,480
metres away from the flag,

917
01:14:02,480 --> 01:14:04,560
levelled with the flag.

918
01:14:05,360 --> 01:14:07,160
He putted with just the right strength,

919
01:14:07,160 --> 01:14:08,960
but the ball was a tiny bit too far

920
01:14:09,000 --> 01:14:10,800
to the right. Now it was a metre

921
01:14:10,800 --> 01:14:12,320
and 30 centimetres uphill lie,

922
01:14:12,360 --> 01:14:13,880
an easy putt,

923
01:14:13,880 --> 01:14:15,840
but he missed again.

924
01:14:15,840 --> 01:14:17,640
After that, we headed home.

925
01:14:21,920 --> 01:14:23,800
We walked up the hill

926
01:14:23,800 --> 01:14:26,040
some 15 or 20 metres

927
01:14:26,080 --> 01:14:27,080
in front of me.

928
01:14:42,000 --> 01:14:45,920
To be honest, after I missed the putt
in the Masters, I was walking up

929
01:14:45,920 --> 01:14:48,400
the fairway of the 10th hole

930
01:14:49,200 --> 01:14:50,320
when I was offered a ride

931
01:14:50,320 --> 01:14:52,120
back to the Club House.

932
01:14:52,120 --> 01:14:53,920
But I declined because at that time

933
01:14:54,000 --> 01:14:57,080
I felt like walking on my own.

934
01:14:57,520 --> 01:14:59,840
I must admit that,
walking up that steep slope,

935
01:14:59,960 --> 01:15:01,360
which seemed
steeper and longer

936
01:15:01,440 --> 01:15:03,480
after I had lost,

937
01:15:03,480 --> 01:15:04,520
I was crying.

938
01:15:04,520 --> 01:15:05,520
I won't deny it.

939
01:15:42,240 --> 01:15:43,640
It was the World Cup Match Play.

940
01:15:43,640 --> 01:15:45,040
Before the tournament,

941
01:15:45,040 --> 01:15:47,040
Greg Norman and Seve

942
01:15:47,120 --> 01:15:48,120
went for a game.

943
01:15:49,440 --> 01:15:54,000
1986 WORLD MATCH PLAY
WENTWORTH CLUB, ENGLAND

944
01:15:57,480 --> 01:16:00,080
Seve told me: ‘there he is,

945
01:16:00,080 --> 01:16:02,720
this year's winner’.

946
01:16:02,800 --> 01:16:05,360
He must have seen something
in him because Norman had

947
01:16:05,440 --> 01:16:08,320
played very poorly at the beginning
of their training game.

948
01:16:08,440 --> 01:16:10,840
For the first two holes he seemed

949
01:16:10,840 --> 01:16:13,960
like he was competing in...

950
01:16:13,960 --> 01:16:15,080
I don't know...

951
01:16:15,080 --> 01:16:16,960
like some looney alien Open.

952
01:16:19,880 --> 01:16:21,920
Seve asked me how much

953
01:16:22,040 --> 01:16:24,080
money I had on me.

954
01:16:24,200 --> 01:16:26,240
I can't remember

955
01:16:26,360 --> 01:16:28,400
if it was 40 or

956
01:16:28,560 --> 01:16:30,600
20 quid, but he said:

957
01:16:30,720 --> 01:16:32,400
‘OK, get them ready.

958
01:16:32,520 --> 01:16:35,880
I'll tell you what we'll do.

959
01:16:37,120 --> 01:16:38,800
I'm going to challenge

960
01:16:39,000 --> 01:16:40,680
Greg to see whose

961
01:16:40,920 --> 01:16:42,600
drive is longer,

962
01:16:42,840 --> 01:16:45,800
his or mine’.

963
01:16:46,080 --> 01:16:47,720
I said: ‘Seve, but you know his

964
01:16:47,720 --> 01:16:51,000
is more powerful than yours’.

965
01:16:51,000 --> 01:16:52,640
Anyway, Seve told him:

966
01:16:52,640 --> 01:16:54,280
‘listen, Greg, let's see

967
01:16:54,280 --> 01:16:57,440
whose drive is longer,
yours or mine.

968
01:16:57,440 --> 01:16:59,840
Let's bet on it’.

969
01:17:10,360 --> 01:17:12,160
Greg totally smashed his first ball.

970
01:17:12,400 --> 01:17:15,000
Mightiest hit ever.
And I said to Seve:

971
01:17:15,080 --> 01:17:18,720
‘there's no way you can reach that long.
Not in a hundred years’.

972
01:17:23,440 --> 01:17:26,360
But Seve wasn't happy yet.

973
01:17:26,760 --> 01:17:28,560
After losing his first bet he

974
01:17:28,720 --> 01:17:30,520
said: ‘hey, give me a chance

975
01:17:30,680 --> 01:17:32,160
to break even!’ Yeah, yeah,

976
01:17:32,320 --> 01:17:34,320
whatever, Greg said. And he

977
01:17:34,520 --> 01:17:36,160
totally obliterated the ball again.

978
01:17:36,320 --> 01:17:37,960
Seve was far shorter,

979
01:17:38,160 --> 01:17:39,520
by comparison.

980
01:17:49,800 --> 01:17:51,680
Seve paid him and when we

981
01:17:51,880 --> 01:17:53,760
were walking along the fairway

982
01:17:53,960 --> 01:17:55,840
I was like: ‘Seve,

983
01:17:56,040 --> 01:17:57,920
you've left me penniless!

984
01:17:58,080 --> 01:17:59,960
That was all the money

985
01:18:00,160 --> 01:18:02,560
I had on me.

986
01:18:02,920 --> 01:18:04,440
Why did you do that?’

987
01:18:20,520 --> 01:18:22,080
Greg didn't pull any muscles,

988
01:18:22,320 --> 01:18:24,560
he won the tournament,

989
01:18:24,560 --> 01:18:26,320
I lost my money

990
01:18:26,440 --> 01:18:29,920
and Severiano and I went home.

991
01:18:56,880 --> 01:19:00,080
1987 RYDER CUP
MUIRFIELD ASSOCIATION, USA

992
01:19:01,120 --> 01:19:03,400
Severiano approached

993
01:19:03,400 --> 01:19:05,000
Toni and said: ‘Toni,

994
01:19:05,000 --> 01:19:08,960
don't worry,
team me up with Jose Mari.

995
01:19:08,960 --> 01:19:10,240
We'll play fine’.

996
01:19:26,680 --> 01:19:28,440
When he was playing with Olazabal

997
01:19:28,440 --> 01:19:29,680
at the Ryder Cup,

998
01:19:29,680 --> 01:19:30,880
he was giving Olazabal instructions.

999
01:19:30,880 --> 01:19:33,560
EDUARDO ‘EL GATO’ ROMERO
1991 SPANISH OPEN CHAMPION

1000
01:19:33,560 --> 01:19:34,920
At times he sounded like Olazabal's dad.

1001
01:19:34,920 --> 01:19:35,920
He was like, ‘shoot here, shoot there’.

1002
01:19:35,920 --> 01:19:37,120
It was truly remarkable. That was

1003
01:19:37,120 --> 01:19:38,400
Seve's approach to the game.

1004
01:19:39,000 --> 01:19:42,320
Chema Olazabal admired Seve

1005
01:19:42,320 --> 01:19:46,000
big time, he always did.

1006
01:19:48,160 --> 01:19:50,520
I won't forget when Chema began

1007
01:19:50,520 --> 01:19:52,480
turning up to his first tournaments.

1008
01:19:54,720 --> 01:19:57,400
I think he's playing very well.

1009
01:19:57,520 --> 01:19:59,680
In any case, Jose Maria is

1010
01:19:59,760 --> 01:20:01,360
aware that a big tournament is

1011
01:20:01,440 --> 01:20:04,120
within his reach. In fact, I'm sure he'll

1012
01:20:04,240 --> 01:20:07,160
win one soon enough.

1013
01:20:08,280 --> 01:20:09,560
In 1985, the Spanish

1014
01:20:09,640 --> 01:20:12,680
Open was played in Pedreña.

1015
01:20:12,800 --> 01:20:15,800
JOSE MARIA OLAZABAL
TWO-TIME US MASTERS WINNER AT AUGUSTA

1016
01:20:15,800 --> 01:20:17,360
Anyway, I had just turned

1017
01:20:17,360 --> 01:20:19,240
professional.

1018
01:20:19,240 --> 01:20:21,240
We were obviously playing in Pedreña,

1019
01:20:21,240 --> 01:20:23,200
Seve's home.

1020
01:20:23,200 --> 01:20:23,920
To be honest,

1021
01:20:24,000 --> 01:20:26,680
I have to say that I played
very well.

1022
01:20:26,920 --> 01:20:28,840
In the end it was down to a

1023
01:20:28,920 --> 01:20:32,000
play-off, to break the tie.

1024
01:20:32,400 --> 01:20:33,680
Severiano obviously

1025
01:20:33,680 --> 01:20:36,080
won the play-off.

1026
01:20:36,080 --> 01:20:38,080
When the championship was over,

1027
01:20:38,200 --> 01:20:39,840
after the prize distribution,

1028
01:20:39,960 --> 01:20:42,040
the press interviews and so on,

1029
01:20:42,120 --> 01:20:44,200
he took me aside and said:

1030
01:20:44,320 --> 01:20:46,400
‘Jose Maria, may I speak to you

1031
01:20:46,520 --> 01:20:50,000
for a minute, in private?’

1032
01:20:51,240 --> 01:20:52,400
He went on: ‘Josemari,

1033
01:20:52,400 --> 01:20:54,080
you may not understand yet what

1034
01:20:54,080 --> 01:20:55,920
I'm about to say but

1035
01:20:56,000 --> 01:20:58,240
you'll get it when the time is right.

1036
01:20:58,600 --> 01:21:01,560
It may have been for the
better that you didn't win today

1037
01:21:01,800 --> 01:21:03,160
and that I did.’ I looked at him

1038
01:21:03,280 --> 01:21:06,400
in shock and said: ‘come on, Seve,
you know we're in this to win,

1039
01:21:06,560 --> 01:21:08,360
aren't we? I don't understand

1040
01:21:08,400 --> 01:21:11,160
why you're saying that’.

1041
01:21:11,240 --> 01:21:14,280
‘Don't worry, you'll get it
when the time is right’.

1042
01:21:14,520 --> 01:21:16,520
Sometime later, maybe

1043
01:21:16,600 --> 01:21:18,600
a few months or the following year,

1044
01:21:18,680 --> 01:21:20,680
I was playing in the European Tour

1045
01:21:20,720 --> 01:21:22,720
and he explained what he had meant.

1046
01:21:22,800 --> 01:21:24,800
‘Let's see, Jose Mari.

1047
01:21:24,880 --> 01:21:26,880
I told you that because

1048
01:21:26,960 --> 01:21:28,960
if you had managed to beat me

1049
01:21:29,040 --> 01:21:31,040
at my own home in your first year

1050
01:21:31,080 --> 01:21:32,720
as professional, expectations would

1051
01:21:32,800 --> 01:21:34,800
have been really high and

1052
01:21:34,880 --> 01:21:36,880
the pressure
could have been overwhelming.

1053
01:21:36,960 --> 01:21:38,960
In the long run,
it would have been detrimental’.

1054
01:21:39,040 --> 01:21:41,040
That explained a lot

1055
01:21:41,080 --> 01:21:44,360
of things, to some extent.

1056
01:21:44,360 --> 01:21:46,360
I must say that I've never

1057
01:21:46,480 --> 01:21:48,200
met anyone, apart from Severiano's

1058
01:21:48,280 --> 01:21:50,360
own family, who loves and

1059
01:21:50,440 --> 01:21:53,640
respects Severiano as much as Chema.

1060
01:21:53,720 --> 01:21:55,080
He was like...

1061
01:21:55,160 --> 01:21:57,280
another brother for him.

1062
01:21:59,840 --> 01:22:02,040
We became the best

1063
01:22:02,200 --> 01:22:06,040
couple in the Ryder Cup

1064
01:22:06,040 --> 01:22:08,120
thanks to Seve,
purely thanks to Seve.

1065
01:22:20,560 --> 01:22:22,480
In the 1987 Ryder Cup,

1066
01:22:22,480 --> 01:22:26,360
in the United States, Seve was introduced
as the best player in the world.

1067
01:22:26,440 --> 01:22:30,240
And he proved so because Europe
won the Ryder Cup

1068
01:22:30,360 --> 01:22:33,720
on American soil for
the first time in 50 years.

1069
01:23:56,320 --> 01:24:00,800
ERNIE ELS
WINNER OF 4 MAJORS

1070
01:24:17,320 --> 01:24:20,080
Severiano tried to improve his game.

1071
01:24:20,440 --> 01:24:21,840
Not because of his back,

1072
01:24:21,920 --> 01:24:24,680
but because of the rumour mill
and remarks by

1073
01:24:24,840 --> 01:24:26,360
some players and others.

1074
01:24:26,400 --> 01:24:28,160
Severiano this and that,

1075
01:24:28,200 --> 01:24:29,960
he should improve his technique

1076
01:24:30,000 --> 01:24:31,240
and so on...

1077
01:24:31,440 --> 01:24:33,760
His swing was altered so much that

1078
01:24:33,840 --> 01:24:35,720
my brother had no clue what

1079
01:24:35,720 --> 01:24:38,240
to do with the club anymore.

1080
01:24:43,720 --> 01:24:48,120
BERNHARD LANGER
TWO-TIME US MASTERS WINNER AT AUGUSTA

1081
01:25:03,040 --> 01:25:04,760
My shots were a lot more powerful before.

1082
01:25:04,880 --> 01:25:05,560
A lot more.

1083
01:25:06,200 --> 01:25:07,360
Is it because you're getting older?

1084
01:25:07,440 --> 01:25:08,200
Well, yeah, that too.

1085
01:25:08,200 --> 01:25:09,520
But no, it's because I altered my swing.

1086
01:25:09,600 --> 01:25:12,200
I used to tilt sideways too much
and it wasn't helping me.

1087
01:25:27,600 --> 01:25:32,920
1995 RYDER CUP
OAK HILL COUNTRY CLUB, USA

1088
01:25:40,440 --> 01:25:43,520
BERNARD GALLACHER
EUROPEAN RYDER CUP CAPTAIN (1991-1995)

1089
01:25:47,320 --> 01:25:49,080
Severiano spoke with Gallagher

1090
01:25:49,200 --> 01:25:53,000
and said: ‘Listen, everybody's
written me off.

1091
01:25:53,720 --> 01:25:57,600
But let me go first in the
singles competition.

1092
01:25:57,600 --> 01:25:58,880
I'll hold my ground for

1093
01:25:58,880 --> 01:26:00,360
as long as I can.

1094
01:26:00,440 --> 01:26:02,200
That should inspire my teammates

1095
01:26:02,320 --> 01:26:05,120
to put up a fight’.

1096
01:26:07,080 --> 01:26:09,000
In his first nine holes, Severiano

1097
01:26:09,160 --> 01:26:11,080
only hit the ball on the fairway

1098
01:26:11,280 --> 01:26:13,480
once and once on the green.

1099
01:26:22,880 --> 01:26:25,520
Tom Lehman didn't practically
miss a single shot.

1100
01:26:27,840 --> 01:26:29,640
Yet after nine holes, Severiano

1101
01:26:29,680 --> 01:26:31,720
was only losing by a single point.

1102
01:26:31,720 --> 01:26:33,440
It was totally unbelievable.

1103
01:26:34,960 --> 01:26:37,040
He would hit approaches into the cup,

1104
01:26:42,000 --> 01:26:43,280
from the bunkers...

1105
01:26:45,280 --> 01:26:48,680
It was unbelievable, it was huge.

1106
01:26:53,000 --> 01:26:54,960
It's true that he finally

1107
01:26:54,960 --> 01:26:57,440
lost the match.
But he held his ground until 16.

1108
01:26:57,440 --> 01:26:59,960
It was awesome.

1109
01:27:30,760 --> 01:27:32,800
After that game,

1110
01:27:32,920 --> 01:27:34,960
Tom Lehman wrote in an article

1111
01:27:35,040 --> 01:27:37,080
in a magazine that he had

1112
01:27:37,160 --> 01:27:39,200
learnt more that day than

1113
01:27:39,320 --> 01:27:41,360
in the many years of his

1114
01:27:41,440 --> 01:27:45,040
career as a golfer,
up to that date.

1115
01:27:49,320 --> 01:27:52,040
When will Severiano Ballesteros
retire from competition golf?

1116
01:27:52,600 --> 01:27:54,080
Humm, well... the day I realize that

1117
01:27:54,120 --> 01:27:55,000
I can't win anymore.

1118
01:27:55,200 --> 01:27:56,640
But that's rather unlikely.

1119
01:27:56,640 --> 01:27:58,720
He won his last singles

1120
01:27:58,760 --> 01:28:01,240
tournament in 1995.

1121
01:28:01,320 --> 01:28:03,600
It was the Spanish Open.

1122
01:28:07,480 --> 01:28:09,240
As soon as it was over,

1123
01:28:09,320 --> 01:28:11,080
he told me...

1124
01:28:11,200 --> 01:28:13,600
He hadn't even handed
his scorecard in yet.

1125
01:28:17,200 --> 01:28:19,080
He said: ‘Merin,

1126
01:28:19,080 --> 01:28:21,320
I've racked my

1127
01:28:21,680 --> 01:28:23,560
head until it is

1128
01:28:23,920 --> 01:28:26,480
about to explode.

1129
01:28:27,280 --> 01:28:30,520
This is it, my sporting
career is over’.

1130
01:28:34,000 --> 01:28:36,480
What will you do
when you retire?

1131
01:28:38,080 --> 01:28:39,280
I've been preparing for the eventuality.

1132
01:28:39,280 --> 01:28:42,200
I'm getting ready.
I'd like to design golf courses.

1133
01:28:45,520 --> 01:28:47,600
He had a company called Men Corner,

1134
01:28:47,720 --> 01:28:50,400
that organised golf tournaments.

1135
01:28:50,800 --> 01:28:55,080
And another one, Trajectory,
to design golf courses.

1136
01:28:55,240 --> 01:28:57,400
'Sancti Petri, with its magnificent

1137
01:28:57,400 --> 01:28:59,280
golf course and lush greens'.

1138
01:29:14,440 --> 01:29:15,320
Does Ballesteros dream of

1139
01:29:15,320 --> 01:29:17,560
the Ryder Cup coming to Spain?

1140
01:29:17,560 --> 01:29:19,520
It's not a dream, not a dream.

1141
01:29:19,560 --> 01:29:21,560
It's happening for real.

1142
01:29:21,600 --> 01:29:23,520
I mean, I know it for a fact

1143
01:29:23,600 --> 01:29:25,760
that the Ryder Cup is coming
to Spain.

1144
01:29:26,000 --> 01:29:28,360
I'm telling you.
Take my word for it.

1145
01:29:29,760 --> 01:29:32,200
1997 RYDER CUP
VALDERRAMA, SPAIN

1146
01:29:32,200 --> 01:29:34,280
Severiano was the prime mover. He was

1147
01:29:34,320 --> 01:29:36,400
the one that, somehow, made it possible.

1148
01:29:36,480 --> 01:29:38,560
The Ryder Cup left the British

1149
01:29:38,640 --> 01:29:39,480
Isles and, most importantly, came to

1150
01:29:39,480 --> 01:29:41,560
Spain with him as captain.

1151
01:29:42,320 --> 01:29:45,280
I've played it eight times already.
I hope I will compete as a player again.

1152
01:29:45,320 --> 01:29:48,600
But since the Ryder Cup is being played in
Spain this time, I think it my duty

1153
01:29:48,600 --> 01:29:52,120
to be the captain. I'm very happy.
I feel honoured.

1154
01:30:33,120 --> 01:30:35,240
His eye for detail was remarkable.

1155
01:30:35,320 --> 01:30:37,440
So much so that he had

1156
01:30:37,520 --> 01:30:39,640
analysed the American team

1157
01:30:39,720 --> 01:30:41,840
to the tiniest detail and realised

1158
01:30:41,920 --> 01:30:44,040
that they had more powerful players

1159
01:30:44,120 --> 01:30:46,200
than the European team.

1160
01:30:46,480 --> 01:30:47,480
So what did he do?

1161
01:30:47,480 --> 01:30:48,960
He placed a 40 metres wide

1162
01:30:49,040 --> 01:30:51,000
strip of rough some

1163
01:30:51,080 --> 01:30:53,040
250/260 metres

1164
01:30:53,120 --> 01:30:55,080
into the fairway,

1165
01:30:55,200 --> 01:30:56,800
right in its middle.

1166
01:31:03,480 --> 01:31:05,560
He told the European team members:

1167
01:31:05,880 --> 01:31:07,960
‘Don't be scared,

1168
01:31:08,280 --> 01:31:10,360
I've already beaten them’.

1169
01:31:12,640 --> 01:31:15,880
SAM TORRANCE
EUROPEAN RYDER CUP TEAM MEMBER (1981-1995)

1170
01:31:16,560 --> 01:31:18,640
He was virtually ubiquitous.

1171
01:31:18,640 --> 01:31:20,480
He seemed to be in every match

1172
01:31:20,480 --> 01:31:21,520
at the same time.

1173
01:31:21,800 --> 01:31:23,560
He'd go everywhere with his buggy.

1174
01:31:23,640 --> 01:31:25,400
He would also get very close

1175
01:31:25,480 --> 01:31:27,240
to the American players,

1176
01:31:27,320 --> 01:31:29,080
to make his presence felt and

1177
01:31:29,120 --> 01:31:30,720
somehow put more pressure on them.

1178
01:33:30,080 --> 01:33:33,520
SEVE ADMIRED GREAT FIGHTERS A LOT,

1179
01:33:33,520 --> 01:33:36,640
SUCH AS MICHAEL JORDAN.

1180
01:33:40,920 --> 01:33:42,480
When he found out that Jordan was

1181
01:33:42,480 --> 01:33:43,680
coming to Valencia, he said:

1182
01:33:43,680 --> 01:33:46,040
CARMELO EZPELETA
MOTOGP CHIEF EXECUTIVE

1183
01:33:46,040 --> 01:33:47,640
‘Carmelo,
I didn't pay proper attention to Jordan

1184
01:33:47,640 --> 01:33:49,080
when he came to Valderrama because

1185
01:33:49,080 --> 01:33:50,520
I was focused on being the captain of

1186
01:33:50,520 --> 01:33:51,840
the European team.

1187
01:33:51,920 --> 01:33:53,720
But I'd like to
see him again because

1188
01:33:53,800 --> 01:33:56,920
I've got the feeling that
I didn't make a good first impression.

1189
01:33:58,080 --> 01:33:59,360
Please, tell him that we can go

1190
01:33:59,360 --> 01:34:01,520
for a game if he feels like’.

1191
01:34:02,120 --> 01:34:04,000
Indeed, finally Jordan

1192
01:34:04,040 --> 01:34:06,680
came to Valencia.

1193
01:34:07,400 --> 01:34:09,240
When we told Seve he was like:

1194
01:34:09,280 --> 01:34:11,120
‘let me arrange a game

1195
01:34:11,160 --> 01:34:13,640
at El Saler’.

1196
01:34:16,200 --> 01:34:17,200
And so he did.

1197
01:34:19,880 --> 01:34:21,600
Michael used to bet on

1198
01:34:21,800 --> 01:34:23,520
all his games but Seve

1199
01:34:23,680 --> 01:34:25,400
wasn't really into betting.
So Michael went:

1200
01:34:25,560 --> 01:34:27,280
‘should we bet?’ and Seve was like:

1201
01:34:27,480 --> 01:34:28,480
‘Uh, ah, blimey!...

1202
01:34:29,800 --> 01:34:31,040
what's your handicap?’

1203
01:34:31,040 --> 01:34:32,400
I believe Michael said

1204
01:34:32,400 --> 01:34:34,120
his was 7 and off

1205
01:34:34,280 --> 01:34:35,840
they went to play.

1206
01:34:37,000 --> 01:34:39,120
They finished the game and

1207
01:34:39,120 --> 01:34:40,960
I believe Jordan won.

1208
01:34:41,120 --> 01:34:43,080
So Seve lost, maybe,

1209
01:34:43,240 --> 01:34:45,200
I don't know, 100 dollars

1210
01:34:45,400 --> 01:34:47,520
or 100 euros.

1211
01:35:04,760 --> 01:35:06,840
I believe that one of the

1212
01:35:06,840 --> 01:35:08,320
toughest moments in his life

1213
01:35:08,360 --> 01:35:10,440
was when he made

1214
01:35:10,440 --> 01:35:12,800
his mind up to retire.

1215
01:35:12,880 --> 01:35:13,920
He had been thinking about it

1216
01:35:13,920 --> 01:35:14,960
for a long time, you know.

1217
01:35:14,960 --> 01:35:16,400
Even though the word ‘retirement’...

1218
01:35:19,720 --> 01:35:22,360
made him sick.

1219
01:35:25,360 --> 01:35:27,320
He didn't feel like he could keep going,

1220
01:35:27,320 --> 01:35:29,280
already at an early age.

1221
01:35:29,360 --> 01:35:33,160
That's why he made up his mind.

1222
01:35:33,400 --> 01:35:35,280
Usually, a player of

1223
01:35:35,360 --> 01:35:36,840
his age and condition

1224
01:35:36,920 --> 01:35:38,800
would still be able

1225
01:35:38,880 --> 01:35:41,360
to play golf.

1226
01:35:42,400 --> 01:35:44,400
We couldn't get our heads around

1227
01:35:44,400 --> 01:35:45,960
the fact that a champion like him

1228
01:35:46,160 --> 01:35:48,560
would suddenly announce he was retiring.

1229
01:35:51,120 --> 01:35:52,760
He was like: ‘I'm not getting through,

1230
01:35:52,760 --> 01:35:54,080
I'm not getting through,

1231
01:35:54,080 --> 01:35:56,240
I'm not getting through’.

1232
01:35:57,200 --> 01:35:59,120
He couldn't put his finger on it

1233
01:35:59,120 --> 01:36:01,160
but he felt like...

1234
01:36:01,160 --> 01:36:02,720
his magic wand was missing

1235
01:36:02,720 --> 01:36:05,480
from his club bag.

1236
01:36:06,240 --> 01:36:08,080
One day it dawned on him

1237
01:36:08,240 --> 01:36:10,080
that he'd better walk away

1238
01:36:10,280 --> 01:36:12,120
while he could... rather than to

1239
01:36:12,280 --> 01:36:13,840
keep dragging himself across golf courses.

1240
01:36:17,480 --> 01:36:19,200
Nicklaus retired at 68.

1241
01:36:19,240 --> 01:36:21,080
Gary Player is 70 and he keeps playing.

1242
01:36:21,080 --> 01:36:22,920
Arnold Palmer is 74 and he keeps playing.

1243
01:36:22,960 --> 01:36:24,480
No one is complaining,

1244
01:36:24,560 --> 01:36:28,000
no one is censuring
them. Why me?

1245
01:36:34,160 --> 01:36:37,120
I've chosen Carnoustie because it

1246
01:36:39,160 --> 01:36:41,240
was ideal.

1247
01:36:41,240 --> 01:36:43,360
This year's British Open is taking

1248
01:36:43,600 --> 01:36:47,000
place there, kicking off tomorrow.
Also, that's where

1249
01:36:47,120 --> 01:36:50,960
I first played, in 1975.
That's why I've chosen England.

1250
01:36:53,840 --> 01:36:58,000
A LEGEND BIDS FAREWELL

1251
01:37:24,000 --> 01:37:25,520
I still remember it clearly.

1252
01:37:25,560 --> 01:37:27,400
Severiano would come up

1253
01:37:27,440 --> 01:37:29,280
on the screen in the players' tents,

1254
01:37:29,320 --> 01:37:31,160
hitting a ball, wherever he was playing

1255
01:37:31,160 --> 01:37:33,000
at the moment, and the players

1256
01:37:33,040 --> 01:37:34,680
would drop everything and watch.

1257
01:38:00,280 --> 01:38:02,280
It's been really difficult to make

1258
01:38:02,320 --> 01:38:04,040
my mind up about retiring.

1259
01:38:04,080 --> 01:38:06,120
It's been a struggle.

1260
01:38:06,200 --> 01:38:07,960
My head was advising me

1261
01:38:08,040 --> 01:38:09,800
one thing but my guts

1262
01:38:09,880 --> 01:38:11,640
were telling me

1263
01:38:11,720 --> 01:38:13,480
something different.

1264
01:38:13,560 --> 01:38:15,320
This internal struggle

1265
01:38:15,400 --> 01:38:17,160
has been going on for about two years.

1266
01:38:17,240 --> 01:38:19,000
I've thought about it long

1267
01:38:20,000 --> 01:38:21,600
and hard and I've said to myself:

1268
01:38:21,840 --> 01:38:23,440
‘it seems that now

1269
01:38:23,640 --> 01:38:25,240
is a good time to

1270
01:38:25,480 --> 01:38:27,080
bid farewell’.

1271
01:38:27,280 --> 01:38:28,880
This year's British Open

1272
01:38:29,120 --> 01:38:30,720
is being held in

1273
01:38:30,960 --> 01:38:33,560
Carnoustie and I thought...

1274
01:38:34,440 --> 01:38:35,840
‘That's a good place to make

1275
01:38:35,840 --> 01:38:37,440
a public announcement’.

1276
01:38:38,520 --> 01:38:40,160
So, I went to Scotland,

1277
01:38:41,240 --> 01:38:43,000
spoke about the way

1278
01:38:43,000 --> 01:38:44,640
I was feeling

1279
01:38:45,000 --> 01:38:46,400
and... that was it.

1280
01:38:49,440 --> 01:38:51,080
I couldn't picture

1281
01:38:51,080 --> 01:38:52,080
him without...

1282
01:38:52,080 --> 01:38:54,320
being in a game.

1283
01:38:55,680 --> 01:38:58,840
He began considering his
future prospects differently.

1284
01:39:00,400 --> 01:39:02,440
Yeah, he had made up his mind.

1285
01:39:04,520 --> 01:39:07,080
But it was all thwarted shortly after.

1286
01:39:12,600 --> 01:39:15,360
On the 5th of October 2008,

1287
01:39:15,880 --> 01:39:17,680
I went to pick Seve up

1288
01:39:17,720 --> 01:39:19,560
from the airport.

1289
01:39:21,120 --> 01:39:23,240
I waited for a long time
without hearing from him.

1290
01:39:23,480 --> 01:39:26,040
He wouldn't phone nor
answer my calls.

1291
01:39:26,640 --> 01:39:28,680
At some point I decided to go

1292
01:39:28,720 --> 01:39:30,040
inside and went into the airport.

1293
01:39:30,600 --> 01:39:32,040
That's when I saw him.

1294
01:39:32,320 --> 01:39:33,200
He was walking towards me

1295
01:39:33,200 --> 01:39:34,360
with a concerned look on his face.

1296
01:39:34,360 --> 01:39:36,280
IVAN BALLESTEROS
SEVE'S NEPHEW

1297
01:39:36,360 --> 01:39:37,920
I said: ‘What's happened?’
But he only said: ‘Nothing.

1298
01:39:38,040 --> 01:39:39,880
I'll tell you later. Let's get in
the car. I'll explain later’.

1299
01:39:39,960 --> 01:39:41,880
First thing I said to him...

1300
01:39:42,040 --> 01:39:43,960
I said to Ivan: ‘I'll explain

1301
01:39:44,080 --> 01:39:45,720
what's happened in a bit,

1302
01:39:45,840 --> 01:39:48,160
because it's no laughing matter’.

1303
01:39:48,160 --> 01:39:50,040
I asked him again

1304
01:39:50,080 --> 01:39:51,680
in our way from the airport

1305
01:39:51,720 --> 01:39:53,600
to the restaurant where we

1306
01:39:53,680 --> 01:39:54,680
were having lunch.

1307
01:39:54,680 --> 01:39:56,480
When I got off the plane,

1308
01:39:56,680 --> 01:39:58,480
I tripped and fell

1309
01:39:58,680 --> 01:40:01,640
in the airport escalators.

1310
01:40:01,840 --> 01:40:02,920
My leg gave way

1311
01:40:03,000 --> 01:40:04,520
beneath me...

1312
01:40:05,040 --> 01:40:07,080
I parked the car in front

1313
01:40:07,080 --> 01:40:09,520
of the restaurant.

1314
01:40:09,520 --> 01:40:11,120
He got off, I turned the engine

1315
01:40:11,160 --> 01:40:12,760
off and looked through the

1316
01:40:12,840 --> 01:40:14,680
passenger's window. I saw that he was

1317
01:40:14,720 --> 01:40:15,720
leaning on another car.

1318
01:40:16,440 --> 01:40:18,200
When I got off the car,

1319
01:40:18,240 --> 01:40:19,400
the same thing happened again.

1320
01:40:20,160 --> 01:40:22,080
He stared at me. I'll never

1321
01:40:22,120 --> 01:40:24,120
forget the look on his face.

1322
01:40:25,080 --> 01:40:27,080
I was worried. I got off the car,

1323
01:40:27,120 --> 01:40:28,920
got behind him and placed my hands on

1324
01:40:28,960 --> 01:40:30,520
his shoulders. I said: ‘Are you okay?’

1325
01:40:30,520 --> 01:40:31,440
As soon as I did that

1326
01:40:31,520 --> 01:40:33,720
he let himself go
and collapsed on me.

1327
01:40:33,840 --> 01:40:35,840
I got a bit dizzy

1328
01:40:35,960 --> 01:40:39,080
and fell on the car.

1329
01:40:39,440 --> 01:40:40,720
So I said: ‘let's go to a hospital’.

1330
01:40:40,800 --> 01:40:43,120
But he refused,
he didn't want to.

1331
01:40:43,360 --> 01:40:44,240
I didn't want to. I said:

1332
01:40:44,240 --> 01:40:45,480
‘It's no big deal. I'm fine.

1333
01:40:45,520 --> 01:40:47,280
Let's have a nice

1334
01:40:47,360 --> 01:40:50,120
thick steak for lunch

1335
01:40:50,120 --> 01:40:52,240
and I'll feel better’.

1336
01:40:52,240 --> 01:40:53,480
No way, we had go to a hospital!

1337
01:40:54,840 --> 01:40:56,640
Long story short,
we went to La Paz Hospital.

1338
01:40:56,640 --> 01:40:58,600
We went in to see a doctor

1339
01:40:58,680 --> 01:41:00,720
and then I waited there for

1340
01:41:00,800 --> 01:41:02,920
three or four hours.

1341
01:41:03,440 --> 01:41:05,120
A nurse finally came out and

1342
01:41:05,120 --> 01:41:06,680
broke the news to me.

1343
01:41:06,760 --> 01:41:08,560
Seve had a brain tumour.

1344
01:41:15,560 --> 01:41:17,520
We are still waiting to hear about

1345
01:41:17,520 --> 01:41:18,720
Severiano Ballesteros condition.

1346
01:41:18,760 --> 01:41:20,480
He was admitted to Hospital

1347
01:41:20,480 --> 01:41:22,200
de La Paz in Madrid on Monday,

1348
01:41:22,200 --> 01:41:23,680
after feeling dizzy

1349
01:41:23,760 --> 01:41:25,320
and losing consciousness.

1350
01:41:28,600 --> 01:41:31,320
I went to Madrid straight away.

1351
01:41:32,280 --> 01:41:33,560
I got to the hospital and

1352
01:41:33,560 --> 01:41:34,800
went into the ICU.

1353
01:41:36,720 --> 01:41:38,320
He was conscious and aware.

1354
01:41:38,320 --> 01:41:41,360
He was fine, relatively speaking.

1355
01:41:41,840 --> 01:41:43,320
Except for his past

1356
01:41:43,320 --> 01:41:45,480
dizziness and the rest...

1357
01:41:47,200 --> 01:41:49,240
The ICU nurse

1358
01:41:49,320 --> 01:41:52,080
offered me a pill to

1359
01:41:52,320 --> 01:41:55,760
calm down my nerves.

1360
01:41:55,920 --> 01:41:58,160
It was the head of ICU

1361
01:41:58,480 --> 01:42:04,840
who broke the news to me and
my son Ivan.

1362
01:42:06,800 --> 01:42:08,840
My world fell apart right there.

1363
01:42:13,600 --> 01:42:15,640
I flew to Madrid the next day

1364
01:42:15,680 --> 01:42:17,720
and spent two months in La Paz

1365
01:42:17,800 --> 01:42:19,720
by his side. He then was

1366
01:42:19,760 --> 01:42:21,280
discharged and we came back home.

1367
01:42:21,320 --> 01:42:23,320
I used to live in San Roque

1368
01:42:23,400 --> 01:42:25,160
but moved in with him and

1369
01:42:25,240 --> 01:42:27,000
spent two years,

1370
01:42:27,080 --> 01:42:28,840
seven months and two days

1371
01:42:28,880 --> 01:42:31,080
by my brother's side.

1372
01:42:35,280 --> 01:42:37,200
To be honest, I would have never

1373
01:42:37,200 --> 01:42:40,200
imagined that someone like him

1374
01:42:40,280 --> 01:42:42,480
could come down with

1375
01:42:42,480 --> 01:42:43,840
such a condition.

1376
01:42:44,200 --> 01:42:46,000
I must admit, it was

1377
01:42:46,160 --> 01:42:47,480
devastating, such a tragedy...

1378
01:42:48,760 --> 01:42:50,560
The doctors looked

1379
01:42:50,560 --> 01:42:51,960
into my head and

1380
01:42:51,960 --> 01:42:53,400
that's when I began

1381
01:42:53,560 --> 01:42:55,480
to worry.

1382
01:42:55,480 --> 01:42:57,360
I was like... what the heck?

1383
01:42:57,400 --> 01:42:59,080
Imagine, I was happily going

1384
01:42:59,160 --> 01:43:00,840
for a nice steak at a restaurant

1385
01:43:00,920 --> 01:43:02,920
and 15 minutes later,
out of the blue,

1386
01:43:02,960 --> 01:43:04,960
doctors tell me that

1387
01:43:05,000 --> 01:43:06,840
I'm having brain surgery.

1388
01:43:07,520 --> 01:43:08,520
I was scared.

1389
01:43:09,240 --> 01:43:11,240
I said: ‘doctor, I'm OK

1390
01:43:11,400 --> 01:43:13,400
with the surgery only

1391
01:43:13,560 --> 01:43:15,560
if it's very likely

1392
01:43:15,720 --> 01:43:18,920
to have a positive outcome.

1393
01:43:19,160 --> 01:43:21,000
But if it's very risky

1394
01:43:21,080 --> 01:43:22,880
and I'm going to

1395
01:43:22,920 --> 01:43:24,720
end up worse off,

1396
01:43:24,800 --> 01:43:26,600
I'd rather not.

1397
01:43:26,640 --> 01:43:28,440
I don't want to suffer

1398
01:43:28,520 --> 01:43:30,320
as much as my father did

1399
01:43:30,400 --> 01:43:31,400
in the end’.

1400
01:43:43,920 --> 01:43:45,440
He was very weak at first.

1401
01:43:45,440 --> 01:43:47,760
When he left hospital
he was very weak.

1402
01:43:47,760 --> 01:43:48,920
Bear in mind that he had spent

1403
01:43:49,000 --> 01:43:50,480
more than two months in an induced coma.

1404
01:43:52,080 --> 01:43:54,800
He had undergone brain surgery four times.

1405
01:43:55,960 --> 01:43:59,080
I think he only pulled through
because he was very strong.

1406
01:44:13,800 --> 01:44:15,760
He would go to the gym he had at home

1407
01:44:15,800 --> 01:44:17,520
and walk around the swimming pool.

1408
01:44:18,480 --> 01:44:19,480
He used to say that

1409
01:44:19,480 --> 01:44:20,560
he had taken thousands of

1410
01:44:20,600 --> 01:44:21,840
laps around the swimming pool.

1411
01:44:21,840 --> 01:44:23,000
He used to row as well.

1412
01:44:23,000 --> 01:44:24,400
All within his

1413
01:44:24,600 --> 01:44:26,240
limitations, obviously.

1414
01:44:28,000 --> 01:44:30,000
He did everything in his hand

1415
01:44:30,000 --> 01:44:33,280
to... to get better.

1416
01:46:03,160 --> 01:46:05,120
He recovered fairly quickly at first.

1417
01:46:05,120 --> 01:46:07,640
In 2009 I went
to Santander.

1418
01:46:07,640 --> 01:46:09,200
I gave him a ring and said:

1419
01:46:09,360 --> 01:46:10,280
‘Seve, mate, how are you?’

1420
01:46:10,280 --> 01:46:12,400
‘Where are you?’, he asked.

1421
01:46:15,480 --> 01:46:16,560
‘Here, at El Sardinero’.

1422
01:46:16,600 --> 01:46:18,040
He said: ‘Ok, meet me at four

1423
01:46:18,040 --> 01:46:19,040
o'clock, at hole one tee’.

1424
01:46:22,320 --> 01:46:23,920
He had had a small golf course

1425
01:46:23,920 --> 01:46:25,440
built at home and
three or four years earlier

1426
01:46:25,440 --> 01:46:26,680
he had promised me that

1427
01:46:26,760 --> 01:46:27,880
JORGE ANDREU
PHOTOGRAPHER

1428
01:46:27,960 --> 01:46:30,880
one day we'd play on it together,
as I had designed it for him.

1429
01:46:31,040 --> 01:46:32,280
We went to the room where

1430
01:46:32,280 --> 01:46:33,680
he kept his clubs. He had some ten

1431
01:46:33,800 --> 01:46:35,280
or fifteen wedges and he said:

1432
01:46:35,360 --> 01:46:37,040
'Which one do you want?’ I asked back:

1433
01:46:37,160 --> 01:46:38,640
'Which one are you having?’ He said:

1434
01:46:38,720 --> 01:46:40,400
‘this one’, so I said: ‘I'll

1435
01:46:40,520 --> 01:46:41,760
have it then’. He was like:

1436
01:46:41,840 --> 01:46:43,080
‘What a smart arse you are! OK,

1437
01:46:43,200 --> 01:46:44,880
fair enough, I'll get the other one’.

1438
01:46:45,000 --> 01:46:46,680
‘It must be the good one, the one I got,

1439
01:46:46,760 --> 01:46:48,240
right?’, I said. And he replied: ‘no,

1440
01:46:48,360 --> 01:46:50,040
I've got the good one in the end,

1441
01:46:50,120 --> 01:46:52,040
because I knew exactly what you were

1442
01:46:52,160 --> 01:46:54,760
going to say, so yours is worse now’.

1443
01:46:55,400 --> 01:46:57,320
He can't stand losing,
not even at ludo.

1444
01:47:02,880 --> 01:47:03,840
Really good.

1445
01:47:03,840 --> 01:47:04,640
Great, mate!

1446
01:47:04,680 --> 01:47:05,680
Great ball.

1447
01:47:07,480 --> 01:47:09,640
Damn!... You hit it
out of bounds!

1448
01:47:11,880 --> 01:47:14,360
We played with
a broken tee.

1449
01:47:15,480 --> 01:47:17,600
I'm giving you this tee
for the second time.

1450
01:47:17,600 --> 01:47:18,960
I said: ‘Seve, mate,

1451
01:47:18,960 --> 01:47:19,960
this tee is broken’.

1452
01:47:20,880 --> 01:47:21,880
‘Never mind’, he said.

1453
01:47:22,080 --> 01:47:23,240
‘You have to play golf with whatever

1454
01:47:23,240 --> 01:47:25,640
you have. Take it or leave it’.

1455
01:47:25,640 --> 01:47:27,920
Okay, but I wanted to
squeeze it a bit.

1456
01:47:27,960 --> 01:47:30,680
In golf, as in any other sport,

1457
01:47:30,680 --> 01:47:33,000
you have to take any advantage

1458
01:47:33,000 --> 01:47:35,160
that the game may offer.

1459
01:47:35,840 --> 01:47:37,280
Yes, sir! You're absolutely right.

1460
01:47:37,920 --> 01:47:40,080
I don't mind being right,
I want you to do it.

1461
01:47:41,280 --> 01:47:43,520
It was a wonderful afternoon.

1462
01:47:43,920 --> 01:47:46,000
Seve and I played side by side.

1463
01:47:46,080 --> 01:47:48,320
It was amazing, awesome.

1464
01:47:49,000 --> 01:47:51,120
He taught me to hit wedge shots.

1465
01:47:51,840 --> 01:47:53,200
Right foot, open face...

1466
01:47:53,320 --> 01:47:54,760
That's it, that's it, a little

1467
01:47:54,880 --> 01:47:56,600
higher, that's it, good.

1468
01:47:56,600 --> 01:47:58,360
The ball closer to the

1469
01:47:58,520 --> 01:47:59,400
right foot, that's it.

1470
01:48:00,440 --> 01:48:01,360
Oh, I see, I see.

1471
01:48:01,360 --> 01:48:02,320
Now, smash it,

1472
01:48:02,320 --> 01:48:04,440
that's it.

1473
01:48:05,680 --> 01:48:08,320
I will never forget it.

1474
01:48:49,720 --> 01:48:51,600
At some point, there was only

1475
01:48:51,680 --> 01:48:52,800
one possible outcome.

1476
01:48:52,880 --> 01:48:54,680
He improved at first

1477
01:48:54,800 --> 01:48:56,840
but then he

1478
01:48:56,960 --> 01:48:59,000
got worse again.

1479
01:48:59,160 --> 01:49:01,200
When this happened, doctors

1480
01:49:01,880 --> 01:49:03,920
said there was nothing

1481
01:49:04,080 --> 01:49:05,840
else they could do.

1482
01:49:12,720 --> 01:49:14,320
Severiano always called me Merin.

1483
01:49:14,520 --> 01:49:15,400
Merin this... Merin that...

1484
01:49:15,400 --> 01:49:16,680
Merin whatever...

1485
01:49:16,880 --> 01:49:18,760
Merin do this,

1486
01:49:19,000 --> 01:49:20,920
we have to do that...

1487
01:49:22,520 --> 01:49:24,000
When he was ill

1488
01:49:24,000 --> 01:49:26,720
he began to call me brother.

1489
01:50:26,560 --> 01:50:28,720
We shared some difficult

1490
01:50:29,120 --> 01:50:31,280
but very meaningful moments

1491
01:50:31,680 --> 01:50:34,880
in his final years.

1492
01:50:37,200 --> 01:50:38,480
I've got

1493
01:50:39,640 --> 01:50:41,800
mixed feelings
about them.

1494
01:50:42,560 --> 01:50:44,640
It was hard, but at the same time

1495
01:50:44,760 --> 01:50:47,680
it was... special, unique.

1496
01:50:49,800 --> 01:50:51,000
There were instances in his house...

1497
01:50:51,000 --> 01:50:53,040
For instance, I remember

1498
01:50:53,120 --> 01:50:55,000
the time when we were watching

1499
01:50:55,080 --> 01:50:56,960
the last day of the British Open at

1500
01:50:57,000 --> 01:50:58,880
Turnberry. Tom Watson came close

1501
01:50:58,960 --> 01:51:01,480
to winning at 59 years of age.

1502
01:51:01,640 --> 01:51:02,920
We were watching all the shots

1503
01:51:02,920 --> 01:51:04,440
and he suddenly got up

1504
01:51:04,440 --> 01:51:05,920
from the couch and started

1505
01:51:06,160 --> 01:51:07,920
doing push-ups.

1506
01:51:08,680 --> 01:51:10,080
And he said: ‘listen, Jose Maria,

1507
01:51:10,080 --> 01:51:11,480
I have to get fit again, I have to get

1508
01:51:11,520 --> 01:51:13,400
strong, I have to get well’.

1509
01:51:16,160 --> 01:51:18,320
I was driving to my place

1510
01:51:18,320 --> 01:51:19,760
after leaving the house

1511
01:51:19,760 --> 01:51:21,600
and I couldn't stop thinking,

1512
01:51:21,680 --> 01:51:23,520
throughout the two-hours long drive,

1513
01:51:23,520 --> 01:51:25,360
about what we had

1514
01:51:25,400 --> 01:51:27,040
experienced in the afternoon.

1515
01:51:31,240 --> 01:51:33,880
I couldn't but think that a chapter

1516
01:51:33,880 --> 01:51:36,160
in history was about to end...

1517
01:51:50,680 --> 01:51:54,480
MAY 7th 2011

1518
01:51:55,840 --> 01:51:57,200
I was already playing

1519
01:51:57,200 --> 01:51:59,800
in the US by then.

1520
01:51:59,800 --> 01:52:01,880
That's where we learnt about the news.

1521
01:52:01,880 --> 01:52:03,680
I was playing at hole 9 in a

1522
01:52:03,760 --> 01:52:05,640
tournament in the United States,

1523
01:52:05,720 --> 01:52:06,880
ready to hit second shot.

1524
01:52:07,480 --> 01:52:09,040
Suddenly, the horn went off.

1525
01:52:09,040 --> 01:52:11,360
Usually, that means the game has to stop,

1526
01:52:12,240 --> 01:52:13,880
either suspended or whatever.

1527
01:52:13,960 --> 01:52:14,880
So the horn was sounded.

1528
01:52:15,080 --> 01:52:17,160
‘But it's sunny’, I kept wondering.

1529
01:52:55,680 --> 01:52:57,360
‘But that's not possible!’ One tends

1530
01:52:57,360 --> 01:52:59,320
to think that people like him can't die,
right?

1531
01:52:59,320 --> 01:53:00,920
That they never die.

1532
01:54:01,920 --> 01:54:04,720
Seve's funeral took place
on May 11th 2011.

1533
01:54:05,400 --> 01:54:07,120
True, Seve used to say

1534
01:54:07,280 --> 01:54:09,000
that he wanted to

1535
01:54:09,160 --> 01:54:10,880
depart this world

1536
01:54:11,040 --> 01:54:13,880
alone.

1537
01:54:14,160 --> 01:54:15,880
He used to say: ‘I came to this world

1538
01:54:15,920 --> 01:54:17,640
on my own, I want to leave it on my own’.

1539
01:54:17,720 --> 01:54:19,640
However, that was plainly impossible.

1540
01:54:24,800 --> 01:54:26,680
The funeral was sad but

1541
01:54:26,840 --> 01:54:28,040
at the same time

1542
01:54:28,840 --> 01:54:31,960
it filled me with joy.

1543
01:54:31,960 --> 01:54:33,560
Mainly because of what I saw and

1544
01:54:33,640 --> 01:54:35,960
because of the crowd in attendance.

1545
01:54:35,960 --> 01:54:38,120
There were caddies, players...

1546
01:54:54,600 --> 01:54:56,480
It was a symbolic representation

1547
01:54:56,760 --> 01:54:58,800
of Severiano's strength,

1548
01:54:59,880 --> 01:55:01,560
of his charisma, of what he did

1549
01:55:01,600 --> 01:55:02,600
for this sport,

1550
01:55:04,240 --> 01:55:06,000
of all the love he received,

1551
01:55:06,040 --> 01:55:07,800
despite the many rows

1552
01:55:07,880 --> 01:55:09,640
he had with the

1553
01:55:09,680 --> 01:55:11,440
PGA, with the European

1554
01:55:11,520 --> 01:55:15,160
Tour, with referees.

1555
01:55:18,080 --> 01:55:21,240
He used to like magnolia trees a lot.

1556
01:55:21,240 --> 01:55:25,720
He planted a magnolia tree
in his garden. It's now grown to be huge.

1557
01:55:25,720 --> 01:55:27,240
That's where he wanted

1558
01:55:27,280 --> 01:55:29,240
his ashes to rest.

1559
01:55:37,080 --> 01:55:39,000
He fought really hard, like

1560
01:55:39,160 --> 01:55:40,520
really, really hard yet

1561
01:55:40,520 --> 01:55:42,080
he never complained.

1562
01:55:42,080 --> 01:55:44,000
I never heard him say:

1563
01:55:44,080 --> 01:55:45,840
‘listen, I'm fucked up’.

1564
01:55:46,000 --> 01:55:48,560
No, no, no, no.

1565
01:55:50,000 --> 01:55:53,760
I think he was very brave,
no doubt about it.

1566
01:55:53,760 --> 01:55:55,760
Very brave!

1567
01:55:55,760 --> 01:55:59,680
I don't know if I'd be able
to bear it like he did...

1568
01:56:00,800 --> 01:56:04,520
Anyone who thinks he
enjoyed a life full

1569
01:56:04,560 --> 01:56:09,720
of luxuries, money and that
is wrong,

1570
01:56:09,720 --> 01:56:12,080
totally wrong.

1571
01:56:12,200 --> 01:56:14,640
Seve was happy on a golf course

1572
01:56:14,640 --> 01:56:18,760
no matter how good or bad his game was.

1573
01:56:19,440 --> 01:56:21,080
The golf course was...

1574
01:56:21,080 --> 01:56:22,160
his habitat.

1575
01:56:32,320 --> 01:56:34,040
I've only had one love in my

1576
01:56:34,160 --> 01:56:36,040
life and that is golf.

1577
01:56:36,080 --> 01:56:37,320
I've felt real passion

1578
01:56:37,320 --> 01:56:38,560
for golf.

1579
01:56:38,560 --> 01:56:40,240
I took it with me

1580
01:56:40,240 --> 01:56:42,040
wherever I'd go.

1581
01:56:42,080 --> 01:56:43,080
If I went to the cinema,

1582
01:56:43,080 --> 01:56:44,240
I'd be thinking about golf.

1583
01:56:44,240 --> 01:56:46,080
I'd go to bed

1584
01:56:46,080 --> 01:56:48,320
and think about golf.

1585
01:57:32,880 --> 01:57:35,840
3 BRITISH OPEN

1586
01:57:35,840 --> 01:57:38,800
2 GREEN JACKETS

1587
01:57:38,800 --> 01:57:41,960
5 WORLD MATCH PLAY

1588
01:57:41,960 --> 01:57:44,920
5 RYDER CUPS

1589
01:57:44,920 --> 01:57:47,840
2 WORLD CUPS

1590
01:57:47,840 --> 01:57:52,760
91 TOURNAMENTS IN FIVE CONTINENTS

1591
01:57:52,760 --> 01:57:56,680
EVEN ONE MORE, THE 92ND, AFTER LEAVING US.

1592
01:58:16,600 --> 01:58:18,520
It's difficult to explain

1593
01:58:18,520 --> 01:58:20,520
what we lived through during that week.

1594
01:58:20,520 --> 01:58:22,160
2012 RYDER CUP
MEDINAH, USA

1595
01:58:25,360 --> 01:58:27,280
What happened in Medinah

1596
01:58:27,400 --> 01:58:29,320
had never happened before

1597
01:58:29,440 --> 01:58:32,480
in the history of the Ryder Cup.

1598
01:58:33,720 --> 01:58:36,960
At a certain point on Saturday
afternoon, we had virtually

1599
01:58:37,000 --> 01:58:39,800
no chance of winning the Ryder Coup.

1600
01:58:45,680 --> 01:58:47,640
What happened on Sunday

1601
01:58:47,720 --> 01:58:49,400
was short of a miracle.

1602
01:59:07,600 --> 01:59:09,440
I don't know who was flying those planes.

1603
01:59:09,440 --> 01:59:11,280
I'm pretty sure there

1604
01:59:11,320 --> 01:59:13,160
had to be more than one, in order to

1605
01:59:13,200 --> 01:59:14,720
write that message across the sky.

1606
01:59:15,680 --> 01:59:17,600
I don't know, and I don't

1607
01:59:17,680 --> 01:59:20,160
think I'll ever find out.

1608
01:59:20,640 --> 01:59:22,520
But I want to thank them,

1609
01:59:22,680 --> 01:59:24,640
because they made

1610
01:59:24,840 --> 01:59:26,800
something very special

1611
01:59:27,000 --> 01:59:28,960
possible on

1612
01:59:29,120 --> 01:59:30,560
that Sunday.

1613
01:59:41,760 --> 01:59:43,840
We began putting into the cup

1614
01:59:43,960 --> 01:59:46,040
from every angle, approaches from

1615
01:59:46,120 --> 01:59:47,120
every distance...

1616
01:59:47,160 --> 01:59:48,840
We began to win matches.

1617
01:59:48,960 --> 01:59:49,960
We made an

1618
01:59:50,840 --> 01:59:52,640
amazing comeback.

1619
01:59:55,400 --> 01:59:57,280
In the end, we managed to

1620
01:59:57,360 --> 01:59:59,240
win the Ryder Cup, even though

1621
01:59:59,320 --> 02:00:01,200
the Americans had

1622
02:00:01,280 --> 02:00:03,160
already celebrated their victory

1623
02:00:03,240 --> 02:00:06,400
on Saturday night.

1624
02:00:20,080 --> 02:00:22,120
Considering the way we hit
approaches into the cup,

1625
02:00:22,120 --> 02:00:24,160
I believe he was
somehow involved.

1626
02:00:38,800 --> 02:00:40,680
it was present
at Medinah,

1627
02:00:40,680 --> 02:00:42,880
and it helped

1628
02:00:42,880 --> 02:00:44,240
us a lot.