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

The director Nico Ballesteros spent years by Ye’s side and released a 2025 documentary about him called “In Whose Name?”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 28, 2026

Spaniard Ballesteros, who helped Europe win four Ryder Cups as player and then captain, died of brain cancer in 2011 at the age of 54.

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

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

From BBC • Jan. 20, 2026

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