Seve: Golf's Flawed Genius (The Updated Definitive Biography)

Seve: Golf's Flawed Genius (The Updated Definitive Biography)

***Shortlisted for BEST GOLF BOOK OF THE YEAR at the British Sports Book Awards 2013***

A golfing legend with five major championships to his credit, Severiano Ballesteros was one of the gameâ€™s great heroes â€“ charismatic, charming, fiery, unpredictable. His untimely death in May 2011, after a prolonged struggle with cancer, left his sport bereft.

Over the course of Seveâ€™s career, no other golf writer enjoyed such regular contact with him as Robert Green â€“ meetings, interviews, conversations and meals together, all of which led to a video and a golf instruction book. This book draws on the material and insights gathered during those collaborative years to capture the â€˜real Seveâ€™. It describes his family and upbringing in Spain and recalls his great on-course triumphs â€“ not least his enormous role in the revival of the fortunes of the Ryder Cup, which thanks to him is today one of the worldâ€™s great sporting events â€“ as well as his calamities. Dramatically and insightfully, Green recalls the great wins in the Open and the Masters, and also those titles that excruciatingly slipped from Seveâ€™s grasp.

The book also examines Seveâ€™s darker side: his controversial and very public spats with officialdom and his sometimes tempestuous private life, including his divorce from Carmen, the daughter of one of Spainâ€™s wealthiest men and mother of his three children, to whom he was married for 17 years. And even after his death, his legacy could not rest.

Above all, though, it is Seve the golfer who takes centre stage, resulting in a portrait that does full justice to its colourful and mercurial subject. It is a story which will enthral all those who watched and admired this golfing icon throughout his remarkable career.

â€˜I look into their eyes, shake their hand, pat their back, and wish them luck, but Iâ€™m thinking, â€œIâ€™m going to bury you.â€â€™ Seve Ballesteros

'Encyclopaedic insight, framed within a compelling narrative â€“ the definitive account of a sporting icon.' Stephen Evans, BAFTA award-winner and producer of the upcoming film of Seve's life

Country	USA
Author	Robert Green
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9781780361536
Format	Kindle eBook
IsAdultProduct
Label	Peach Publishing
Manufacturer	Peach Publishing
NumberOfPages	366
PublicationDate	2013-11-14
Publisher	Peach Publishing
ReleaseDate	2013-11-14
Studio	Peach Publishing

Seve: Golf's Flawed Genius (The Updated Definitive Biography)

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