How Seve, Faldo, Langer, Lyle and Woosnam Changed the Face of the Ryder Cup
This story was first published on Sept. 20, 2018.
The house was humble, far from grand, and centred on a smallholding in the village of Pedreña, near Santander, on the northwest coast of Spain. Chickens pecked and clucked in the ground outside. A donkey was tethered nearby. Rabbits scurried around. In such inauspicious circumstances, Severiano Ballesteros, the youngest of five sons, one of whom died, aged 2, from a wasp’s sting, was born on 9 April 1957.