Review
a revealing insight into the mind of the man who won five major championships in ten seasons
- Seve Golf's Flawed Genius
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Seve Golf’s Flawed Genius
Shortlisted for the British Sports Book Award, this is a revealing insight into the mind of the man who won five major championships in ten seasons - not without grief - most notably in the Masters, where his two titles could easily have been five or six.
Ballesteros is charismatic and can be charming, but his personality comprises layers of intrigue. Robert Green has written an illuminating portrait of the man whose mind has been described as ‘a private forest, a place impenetrable, indeed dangerous to others’. Green was given unprecedented access to his subject and this is reflected in the book. The vehemence and verve with which Seve pursued victory in the Ryder Cup reflected the way he felt he had been treated on the US PGA Tour. Come September 2004, he became embroiled in a further spat after an apparent assault on a tour official in his home town. Green reveals Seve’s dark side, the side the public seldom sees. Fiercely competitive but with a genuine love of the game and its traditions, anyone who saw Seve play will always have fond memories of how he lit up the world of golf in the 70s and 80s.
This extraordinary book begins with an incident on the first hole of the first series of fourball matches at the 1987 Ryder Cup, the year of Europe’s first ever success in the USA, an incident encapsulating Seve’s skill, bravado, what he brought to the Ryder Cup and his oft-expressed antipathy towards Americans. Unputdownable.
