Ballesteros

British  

/ baʎesˈterɔs, ˌbælɛˈstɛrɒs /

noun

1. Severiano (sevɛˈrjano). 1957–2011, Spanish professional golfer: won the British Open Championship (1979; 1984; 1988) and the US Masters (1980; 1983)

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Example Sentences

A life-sized statue commemorating five-time major winner Seve Ballesteros has gone missing from his hometown of Pedrena in Spain.

From BBC • Jan. 20, 2026

Ballesteros, who died at 54 of brain cancer in 2011, won five major championships between 1979 and 1988.

From Barron's • Jan. 20, 2026

It captures the moment Ballesteros celebrated a famous victory at the Open Championship at St Andrews in 1984.

From BBC • Jan. 20, 2026

He was part of a group led by Spain’s Seve Ballesteros that pushed back against PGA Tour restrictions that prevented players from competing abroad on their home tours.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 20, 2025

Father Fray Diego Ballesteros, son of the convent of Toledo.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century, Volume XLIII, 1670-1700 by Various