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

Winning back-to-back Masters moved him alongside England's Sir Nick Faldo on six majors and one clear of Spain's Seve Ballesteros.

From BBC • Apr. 13, 2026

Last year, he built up a reputation for being an artist to watch in the Regional Mexican space thanks to collaborations with Gabito Ballesteros and Ed Maverick.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 11, 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

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

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