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

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

From BBC • Jan. 20, 2026

A life-sized statue of Spanish golf great Seve Ballesteros has gone missing from his hometown Pedrena, in the north of the country in an apparent robbery.

From Barron's • 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

Europe have regularly looked to a talismanic figure - starting with Seve Ballesteros in the 1980s through to Rory McIlroy in the present day - to be a figurehead driving their Ryder Cup bid.

From BBC • Sep. 26, 2025

Candava: Don Juan Ronquillo; Don Goncalo Vallesteros—The encomienda of Candava, belonging to Don Juan Ronquillo and Don Goncalo de Ballesteros, has about two thousand tributes, or eight thousand persons.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 08 of 55 1591-1593 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 by Robertson, James Alexander