A golfing legend with five majors championships to his credit, Severiano Ballesteros is one of the game's great heroes – charismatic, charming, fiery, unpredictable. Over the past 20 years, no other golf writer has enjoyed such regular contact with Seve as
Robert Green – meetings, interviews, conversations and meals together, all of
which led to a video and a golf instruction book. Later, there was to be an
autobiography, a project from which Seve withdrew – twice.

This extraordinary book draws on the material and insights gathered
during those collaborative years to capture the real Seve as never
before. It opens powerfully 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 success in the USA, a moment that encapsulated the skill and
bravado Seve brought to the Ryder Cup, as well as his oft-expressed
antipathy towards Americans.

The book goes on to describe Seve's family and upbringing in Pedrena
on Spain's north coast, his first tournaments and titles, leading on to the
glory years. Dramatically and insightfully, Green recalls the great wins in
the Open and the Masters, and also those that excruciatingly slipped
from Seve’s grasp, and he details how Seve’s skills and enormous
popularity helped the European Tour and the Ryder Cup to flourish.

But he examines Seve's darker side, too: his controversial and very public
spats with officialdom, his sometimes troublesome business affairs and
his latterly tempestuous private life, which culminated in his divorce from
Carmen, the daughter of one of Spain's wealthiest men, to whom he was
married for 17 years. Above all, though, it is Seve the golfer who takes centre
stage, resulting in a portrait that does full justice to its colourful and mercurial subject.
It is a story which will enthral all those who have watched and admired this golfing icon throughout his remarkable career.