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European golf weeps today.

All of golf weeps today.

So few sports legends are known and remembered by one name. Seve is one of them.

Severiano “Seve” Ballesteros is gone from the world we know, but the Seve we remember will always be around.

Seve had spirit, charisma, bravado and charm rolled into one young swashbuckling Spaniard that brought European golf back from its comatose state.

He transformed the Ryder Cup from an American entitlement into a frolicking brawl of sorts—the kind that brought out national pride, the kind of event that made crowds not want to cheer, it made them want to holler.

Seve has left us. He was the victim of cancer, and he fought one of its nastiest forms. There was so much fight in him.

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