* 2011 – Seve Ballesteros, Spanish golfer ( b. 1957 )

* Seve Ballesteros

* April 9 – Seve Ballesteros, Spanish golfer ( d. 2011 )

) Including Europe was partly prompted by the success of a new generation of Spanish golfers, led by Seve Ballesteros and Antonio Garrido, the first Spaniards ( and continental Europeans ) to play in the event.

The change worked, as the contests immediately became much more competitive, with talented young Europeans such as Seve Ballesteros and Bernhard Langer bolstering the European side.

The competition saw the beginnings of a feud between Seve Ballesteros and Paul Azinger.

Many of the American players believed the Europeans ' response was hypocritical ; they argued that European players – in particular Seve Ballesteros – had been guilty of excessive celebration and gamesmanship as far back as the 1985 Ryder Cup Matches, without attracting the same opprobrium from the European media.

Other notable winners include Byron Nelson, Ben Hogan, Tom Watson, Seve Ballesteros, Bernhard Langer, Ben Crenshaw and José María Olazábal, who have all won the Masters twice.

At the Masters Norman held the lead with Seve Ballesteros through nine holes on Sunday.

* Masters Tournament – Seve Ballesteros

The European winners of this era, Spaniard Seve Ballesteros, Sandy Lyle, who was the first Scottish winner in over half a century, and the Englishman Nick Faldo, were also leading lights among the group of players who began to get the better of the Americans in the Ryder Cup during this period.

* British Open – Seve Ballesteros

The year of 1979 was the first since turning professional in which he failed to win a tournament ; he had only one runner-up finish, plus a tied-for-second with Ben Crenshaw behind 22-year-old Seve Ballesteros at The Open Championship.

Past winners at St Andrews include Tiger Woods ( twice ), John Daly, Nick Faldo, Seve Ballesteros, Jack Nicklaus ( twice ), Tony Lema, Kel Nagle, Bobby Locke, Peter Thomson, Sam Snead, Dick Burton, Denny Shute, Bobby Jones, Jock Hutchison, James Braid ( twice ), John Henry Taylor ( twice ), Hugh Kirkaldy, Jack Burns, Bob Martin ( twice ), Jamie Anderson, Tom Kidd, Lorena Ochoa, and most recently Louis Oosthuizen at the 2010 Open Championship.

( Nick Price was second with three major victories during this period ; Seve Ballesteros, a contemporary of Faldo's from Spain, won five majors from 1979 to 1988 ).

While Faldo's professional individual tournament wins ( 39 ) pale in quantity to that of contemporaries Greg Norman, Seve Ballesteros, and Bernhard Langer, the prestige and stature of his successes are impressive, and he has more major victories than any of these players.

When Continental Europe produced its first global golf stars in the 1970s, such as Seve Ballesteros, and especially when Europe began to notch wins over the United States in the Ryder Cup in the mid 1980s, there was widespread optimism about the future standing of the European Tour relative to the PGA Tour.

Athletes and coaches such as Lleyton Hewitt and his coach Roger Rasheed ( Tennis ); Seve Ballesteros, Sandy Lyle and Andrew Marshall ( Golf ), Mick O ' Dwyer ( Gaelic football ) and Brian Kerr ( Soccer ) met and encouraged athletes at events during the games.

His peers in this group were Seve Ballesteros, Nick Faldo, Bernhard Langer, and Sandy Lyle.

* Carroll's Irish Open is won by Seve Ballesteros ( Spain ).

* Carroll's Irish Open is won by Seve Ballesteros ( Spain ).

* Carroll's Irish Open is won by Seve Ballesteros ( Spain ).

In the interim, Price shot a Augusta National Golf Club course record 63 at the 1986 Masters Tournament and finished second at the 1988 Open Championship to Seve Ballesteros.

The top six ranked golfers were: Bernhard Langer, Seve Ballesteros, Sandy Lyle, Tom Watson, Mark O ' Meara and Greg Norman.

He won his second and final major in 1976, a six stroke victory over Nicklaus and a 19-year-old Seve Ballesteros at The Open Championship at Royal Birkdale.

Like the much more established Ryder Cup, which is now played between teams representing the whole of Europe and the United States, the Seve Trophy is a team event played over three or four days, with two or three days of pairs matches ( the precise formats used have varied ) and a concluding set of singles matches on the final day.

He has the distinction of being the only person to have been a victorious player and captain in the Ryder Cup, Seve Trophy and Royal Trophy – the three main team golf competitions open to players from Europe.

In the late 1970s and early 1980s the Caribbean Tour attracted entrants from leading European and American golfers such as Seve Ballesteros and Curtis Strange, but it folded after a few years.

It is named after five times major winner Seve Ballesteros, the most successful golfer ever from Continental Europe who was one of the key instigators of the tournament.

Players are willing to play in the Ryder Cup for nothing because of its prestige, although they receive large indirect financial compensation from the boost that participation gives to their prestige and profile, but as a new event, founded only in 2000, the Seve Trophy needed to offer prize money to attract first rate players.

The result provides final confirmation of the recent swing in global dominance away from the American players ; at the end of 1987, only one of the world's top six ( Curtis Strange, in 5th ) is American, while four ( Seve Ballesteros, Bernhard Langer, Sandy Lyle and Ian Woosnam ) are European, while the world number one remains Greg Norman.

Former champions include Arnold Palmer, Seve Ballesteros, Bernhard Langer, and Nick Faldo.

In 1986 Bernhard Langer and Seve Ballesteros were declared joint winners as they were level after four playoff holes when darkness fell.

In 1981, Miller enjoyed one final spectacular season ; his victory at the Million Dollar Challenge in Sun City, South Africa ( following an epic 9-hole sudden death play-off with Seve Ballesteros ) that made him that year's leading worldwide money-winner in golf after two earlier wins in the United States.

At the 1987 Masters, Mize was tied with Seve Ballesteros and Greg Norman after four rounds.

This made him the second European captain to sink the winning putt and captain a winning team at separate Ryder Cups, after Seve Ballesteros in 1987 ( as a player ) and 1997 ( as captain ).

Seve Ballesteros wins his third British Open championship in the first-ever Monday finish to the 72 holes, after the whole of Saturday's scheduled third round at Royal Lytham was lost to torrential rain.

At the same time, the Grundlegung systematically integrated previous specialized work done at Free University of Berlin in the ' 70s by critical psychologists who also had been influenced by Marx, Leontyev and Seve.

Jiménez has had great success in team events representing Europe and Spain, winning the Alfred Dunhill Cup in 1999 and 2000, the Seve Trophy in 2000 and the Ryder Cup in 2004 and 2010.

The small town of approximately 400 residents is well serviced for a small community and includes a post office, bowling club, Senior Citizen's Club, a circuit Doctor, Country Fire Service ( CFS ) station, primary school, public swimming baths, a hotel, a grocery / deli, children's playgrounds, a sports bar and The Owen Links Golf course ( home of the Plains invitational, some of the most famous winners being Tiger Woodsy, Arnold Parker, Seve BalisLanos and Ian Bubner-Finch ) and a Wetlands reserve area which has been the subject of speculation by locals as being inhabited by a Bunyip called Garry.

Montgomerie captained the Great Britain & Ireland team in the first four stagings of the Seve Trophy, losing in 2000 but winning in 2002, 2003, and 2005.