Nobody wanted to miss the event. Professionals flocked to the tribute to the greatest golfer of all time, Seve Ballesteros, which was held on the beach of Somo, in Pedreña, where a very young Severiano began to take his first golf strokes with a 3-iron.
Everything is ready for the final stretch of the Seve Ballesteros PGA Tour 2018, which this week has moved to Pedreña to play the sixth round of the Tour. Young and old have come together this week in a tournament that will be very special because it will be played in the home of Seve Ballesteros, for those who knew him and for those who have known him through the stories, reports and videos that have made him a legend of this sport.
The players remembered the figure of the golfer who sadly passed away on May 7, 2011 due to brain cancer and who revolutionized world golf with his particular way of understanding the sport. He was the great driving force behind the Ryder Cup and the first European to win the Masters at Augusta in 1980, opening the doors to a whole generation of European golfers who dominated the world and who were called “the first European to win the Masters at Augusta”. “La Quinta de Seve” and formed by Nick Faldo, Bernhard Langer, Ian Woosnam and Sandy Lyle.
This has been the beginning of an intense week in which the sixth round of the Seve Ballesteros PGA Tour 2018 is played here, in Pedreña, with the participation of the golfer’s eldest son, Javier. The best players of the national scene are here this week; Alfredo García Heredia, double winner of the Tour; Jacobo Pastor, winner in Neguri, Miguel Ángel Jiménez son, or Toño Hortal. The field of 88 players is completed with Javier Ballesteros, Seve’s eldest son, and his cousin Manu; Juan Legarrea, Lucas Vacarisas, Xavier Puig, Noel Grau, Miguel Cabrera Bello, Sebastián García Rodríguez, or Jordan Gibb who had a great performance last week in Burgos. And the veterans Fernando Roca, Gabriel and José Antonio Sota or José Antonio Rozadilla, emblematic player of the ‘Seve Era’.
The spirit of Seve
Seve’s spirit is more alive today than ever thanks to the work of his Foundation, which honors the life and career of the golfer, preserves his legacy, supports advances in cancer research and promotes golf and its values among children and young people, an objective shared with the PGA and its desire to transmit and promote all those actions that can favor golf in our country.
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