How about Seve ..... (written in the Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/blog/2009/mar/13/joy-of-six-seve-ballesteros)
Joy of Six: Seve Ballesteros's greatest shotsFrom driving the green at The Belfry to an amazing piece of wizardry at the 1983 Ryder Cup, here are half a dozen moments of Ballesteros brilliance
For many European golf fans, Seve Ballesteros was, is, and will forever be the greatest. Arriving on the scene at a time when the US's long-lasting domination of the sport seemed utterly indestructible, Seve combined flair, nerve, power and finesse to hammer holes into American supremacy. Between 1976 and 1995 he accumulated 48 official European Tour wins and ended his career with 87 worldwide victories as a professional, including five major championships (two Masters, three Opens). That's an impressive haul by any standards but, with Seve's talent, you almost feel he underachieved.
Ballesteros was the most exciting player of his generation, and, indeed, many others. In picking six of his finest ever shots, there is a wealth of material from which to choose. There's the mind-boggling three-wood he played through a tiny gap in the trees at Oak Hill's 13th hole in his singles match against Tom Lehman during the 1995 Ryder Cup. Or the equally memorable five-iron he played from 216 yards to just a few feet at Wentworth's 1st hole to win a play-off against Colin Montgomerie at the 1991 PGA Championship. And how about the cheeky little chip shot he ran between two bunkers on to the green at Royal Birkdale's 18th during the 1976 Open Championship – the shot John Jacobs said "convinced me Seve was a genius". Here is our definitive half dozen (after sneakily giving you three already).
1) The 1978 Hennessy Cup, a team event between Britain and Continental Europe, at The Belfry
The situation: Ballesteros is one up in his match against Nick Faldo as the pair arrives at the short par-four 10th. The sensible play is a mid-iron short of the water and a sand wedge on to the green.
The shot: Ballesteros hits his Persimmon-headed driver, and carries his soft, wound, balata ball 280 yards over tall trees guarding the right side of the green. He is the first man to reach the target from the tee, the ball finishing 10 feet from the hole from where he makes a simple birdie. Countless golfers have since repeated the feat, most of them from a forward tee and with the help of a titanium-headed driver and modern, multi-layer ball. Seve wins the hole and the match 2&1.
2) The first round of the 1983 World Match Play Championship at Wentworth
The situation: Seve is two down to 54-year-old Arnold Palmer with two to play. He wins the 17th but is in a tricky spot short of a greenside bunker 50 yards from the hole after two shots at the 18th. Palmer is safely on in three.
The shot: Using an eight-iron, Ballesteros bunts a low-running chip that clears the bunker, pitches just a few feet on the green and sweeps perfectly down the right-to-left slope into the hole for an eagle three. Seve then wins the match at the third extra hole. "I should be mad," said Palmer. "But I have done that to so many other people in the past I suppose I can't complain."
3) The final round of the 1984 Open Championship at St Andrews
The situation: Seve arrives at the notorious Road Hole, the 17th, level with Tom Watson in the group behind. Seve's drive goes left into patchy rough.
The shot: With 193 yards to the flag, Ballesteros hits a smooth six-iron on to the front of the putting surface, avoiding the treacherous pot bunker in front of the green and the road behind it. "It was a thrilling shot in the circumstances," said Dan Jenkins in Sports Illustrated. Seve two-putts for his first par of the week at the hole, and birdies the last to win by two shots.
4) Final round of the 1988 Open Championship at Royal Lytham & St Annes
The situation: Zimbabwe's Nick Price starts out two ahead of Ballesteros and Faldo. Between the 6th and 13th holes Seve is six-under-par, and with a tap-in birdie at the 16th takes a one-shot lead. At the 18th he pulls his second shot left of the green, the ball finishing hole-high but in a slight depression.
The shot: With Price 35 feet from the hole in two, Seve has to put his chip shot close and, standing slightly awkwardly, lofts his ball deftly on to the green. It lands halfway to the hole and slowly creeps ever closer, brushing the edge of the cup before settling a couple of inches away. Price fails to hole his putt and Seve has his third Open title. A few years later, a young Australian by the name of Geoff Ogilvy makes his first visit to Lytham and immediately heads to the small swale by the side of the green from which Seve had hit his exquisite little chip. "I just had to see the spot where he had been," said Ogilvy. "I had played that shot in my mind so often."
5) The final round of the 1993 European Masters at Crans-sur-Sierre, Switzerland
The situation: Seve arrives on the 18th tee needing a birdie to have any hope of catching the Englishman Barry Lane. His drive sails way right and stops five feet from an eight-foot high wall that stands between his ball and the green, 130 yards away. To make matters worse, there is only a tiny gap between the top of the wall and several tree branches.
The shot: After ignoring caddie Billy Foster's advice to chip out sideways, Seve lays the face of his sand wedge wide open and sends the ball almost vertically up over the wall, but beneath the tree limbs. Amazingly, given how close he is to the wall, the ball makes it to the edge of the green from where he chips in for a birdie. Asked why he took on such a dangerous shot instead of chipping out safely, Seve replies: "I just like to keep going forward." His birdie isn't quite enough, however, as Lane wins by a stroke. But the tournament will forever be remembered for another bit of Ballesteros brilliance.
6) Singles match against Fuzzy Zoeller in the 1983 Ryder Cup at PGA National in Florida
The situation: Having been three up with five to play Ballesteros now stands on the 18th tee all square. Seve smothers his drive into deep rough from where he can only hack the ball into a bunker. His stance and lie suggest a sand wedge sideways is his only option but the situation demands something slightly more adventurous. Seve pulls his three-wood.
The shot: 245 yards from the hole cut on a green surrounded to the right and back by water, Seve's position is beginning to look desperate. The shot he attempts has an off-the-chart difficulty rating and will, in all probability, put him in more trouble. Seve now looks odds-on to lose a match he really should have won. Seve picks the ball cleanly off the surface and glares as it curves 50 yards from left to right before landing just off the putting surface. "He swung, he hit, he gave the ball that incredible Seve stare and it flew miles and miles, right to the fringe of the green," said the Guardian golf correspondent, Dai Davies. "It was an impossible shot and it was greeted first with a stunned silence, and then by incredulous laughter that greets something that is outwith the experience of the watcher. It was, in the literal sense of the word, fantastic." Moments later Seve chips and putts for par and halves the hole and the match