Seve Ballesteros The Good,The Bad and The Ugly!
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2014
- Enjoy a few clips of Seve doing what he does best at various Opens and the sad shot at the Belfry at the end.
I especially liked his awesome 350 yard drive? down 17th at the Open at St Andrews in 1978. Simply animalistic with his persimmon headed driver! 
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Listening to the great Peter Allis commentating on the great Seve. What a great time to be alive. I was there that day a 15 year-old budding 6 handicapper.. What an honour to have seen Seve win that day. Will be one of my most treasured memories..
seve your gone and your missed every day but you golf shots never cease to amaze me I try every day to copy your shots and still is struggle to get them right... you were and always will be a genius with a golf club..... your clubs were magic wands but only in the hands of a magician that magician was called SEVE BALLISTIRIOUS ......REST IN PEACE SEVE AND THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING
That drive at 1:16....unbelievable athleticism....RIP Seve one of the greatest there ever will be!
Seve at his best was the greatest ever. When Tiger Woods was asked about Seve he said one word “GENIUS”
Seve always amazing style !
So pleased i was there on that wonderful Monday 😁 at Lytham, the golf ⛳ from seve and price was amazing, faldo also played OK but didn't get the luck 🤞 of the other two that particular afternoon, but went on to do OK 😊👍
great bits of footage one more time!
and very rare too!
thx
Seve always exciting
nice thanks, Seve had class.
Class right to the end, we'll not see another shot maker like him again. They rave about Mickelson but he has more wedges than you can shake a stick at, Seve used one
Boss Hogg dd
I saw the chip between the bunkers in 1976 (unfortunately the only shot I ever saw Seve hit !!) and I still remember the crowd reaction, a very loud groan because everyone first thought he'd duffed it, which magically turned into a cheer that echoed again and again around the grandstands as people realised they'd just seen the most wonderful of run-ups. I also remember Johnny Miller, the winner,deliberately breaking with tradition by holing out before Seve finished to leave the last shot to this new golfing genius, who of course holed the putt to tie for second with Nicklaus.In the presentation, Miller gave Seve huge praise, wise man as Miller is he made it plain that this was a new superstar arriving, no fluke.One more thing. I was beside a scoreboard on the first day in a large crowd of people when the people manning it put in the name 'Ballesteros' then 'S' as leader. A large number of the crowd protested that this was a mistake, there was no 'S' Ballesteros, it should be 'M' - Seve's brother Manuel who was an established Tour player. Checks were made, and the 'S' was reported as correct, though some of the crowd still didn't believe it. 'Who the hell is S Ballesteros ?'. I heard one person say. I reflect now that, after that Open, indeed after that first day, no golfer ever asked that question again.
And it was called on the BBC by the legendary Henry Longhurst, who was in his final Open broadcast, which adds even more luster to it. I wonder how many people realize that Longhurst lasted all the way into the beginning of Seve's career before sadly passing away before his time in 1978 at the age of 59.
CJS - Yes, absolutey right, and he was marvellous talking about Seve that day wasn't he ? But then he always was. Sorry to be pedantic (my wife is laughing for some reason as I write that ) but Henry in fact was 69 when he died in 1978. Peter Alliss wrote that during their last conversation, on the phone a day or two before Henry died, the terminally ill Henry said ' 69....Not bad in the circumstances......three under fours'.
I saw one of Peter Alliss's 'one man shows', and in the Q&A part, asked him about Henry. He said that Henry was absolutely his commentating mentor, we all know that I think, then he said that Henry sometimes liked to say something completely off the wall and outrageous, and then immediately act completely normally as if he'd said nothing of the kind. For example, after he and Henry had flown to America on Concorde, a journalist at the airport asked Henry what he thought of such an astoundingly quick flight. 'No time to get pissed', said Henry.
Sorry about that error regarding Henry's age when he died. I thought it was 59, but he was, in fact, 69. But to show how much longevity has changed, Alliss is still doing commentary for major championships well into his 80s.
But he hung around long enough to see some of the guys that figured to do well into the 80s (and 90s) begin their ascendance. He was part of the ABC commentating team that did the U.S. Open when Hale Irwin won in '74 and when Jerry Pate won in '76, and he probably did Tom Watson's Open Championship victory in '75, and those players lasted into the 80s, and in the case of Irwin and Watson, won well into the 90s (Watson's final victory on the PGA Tour was in 1998 and he nearly won a sixth Open in 2009). And of course, he did this Open, which was his last, which saw Seve begin his rapid ascendancy to stardom, which would him win see five major championships from 1979 to 1988 and become to the European Tour what Arnold Palmer was to the PGA Tour. (And Seve still remains the winningest player in European tour history with 50 wins.)
Cjs - Indeed. out of all his brilliant moments, I think the very best was Doug Sanders on the 72nd hole in the 1970 Open. He sensed disaster, just sensed it, even before Sanders played his second shot. You can actually hear him groan as Sanders backed away from the putt he of course missed. As Doug approached that final tee, Henry said he needed a 4 to 'achieve the ambition of a lifetime...' Simply perfect. (And all this was in the live commentary of course, not one of those commentaries dubbed on later).
And his narration of what happened on the final green in the official film of that year's British Open captured that, as well, because he said in the film that somehow, you knew that he would miss it before he hit it. And a year or two later, Lee Trevino hit his clinching putt in that same championship so quickly that film never caught it, and the reason he hit his putt so quickly was that he remembered what happened to Sanders on the 72nd green at St. Andrews since he was Sanders' playing partner that fateful day, and did not want to repeat the process of looking at such a putt for a prolonged period as Sanders did in 1970.
Your title should be the good the great and the marvelous.
3:09 Notice the post swing club "twirl", something often attributed to Tiger .... when it's just some sort of neurological response. Trevino did it too. There were golfers before Tiger, even if he may be the best yet ;-)
Very modern swing. But can someone tell me why they played much shortier clubs than now?
Technology would be the reason there in my opinion. The older clubs had a tiny sweet spot, so having longer shafts would only make the clubs even harder to hit, especially the driver.
Golf highly prioritized accuracy, much more than distance, until just a short time ago
What does the compilation has in relation to the film??
.'Much smoother swing that time....' Mark McCormick before Seve's drive ends up in a car park. Good old Mark, undoubtedly a very successful businessman, knew fuck all about the game itself.
Seve said he was happy to hit hard down the right side as he knew the car park to the side of the fairway was trampled ground .
@@davidbrooks187 Indeed, plus, since he rode the wind with his drive, his pitch back was into it, hence it stopping quickly and close enough for a birdie.
@@ysgol3 It was an example of great course management.
Always seemed like a guy who was playing head games and trying to get under your skin ...... exact opposite of Jack or Arnie !
Jack Nicklaus said “Seve hits shot me I only see in my dreams & is Europe’s Arnold Palmer”
A fine player indeed, yet lacking in class.
Glad I'm not you.