Sad to hear that golfing legend Seve Ballesteros has died as a result of a brain tumour.
I’m not into golf, but when I was a child I had a Seve golf game which consisted of a golf club with a small character on the end, and when you pulled a small trigger he swung his club and hit the ball. Balls consisted of polystyrene ones for driving and glass ones for putting on the foam putting green. Now that I think about it, it might not have been a Seve game – it might have been Jack Nicklaus – but I’ll always associate Seve with that game, and watching golf on the TV during the long, hot school summer holidays back when TV started late and finished early, and there were only three channels to watch (or sometimes one if the BBC had decided to show golf on its own two – Channel 4 was still a good few years off then).
Seve was one of the most recognisable personalities around, and always a really nice guy. If ever I decided to get into golf (like many of my friends and pupils are these days), it’s people like Seve who would attract me to it.