Thursday, June 25, 2009

Praise for the surgeons who removed brain tumour from Seve
Call me Seve Mulligan now, says Ballesteros:

'I've been given a second chance'

Seve Ballesteros has made his first official public appearance since undergoing life-saving surgery to remove a brain tumour last December.
The 52-year-old was speaking at the launch of a cancer federation that will bear his name in Spain and admits he has felt like he has been given a second chance at life.
"Nine months ago my life was hanging by a thread. I feel now like I have a mulligan in life," he said in reference to the golf rule which permits a player to retake a shot.
"The first thing that I told the doctors after I woke up from the anaesthetic was that my new name was Seve Mulligan."
The five-time major winner was diagnosed with a brain tumour after losing consciousness at Madrid Airport last October.
He spent the next 66 days in La Paz hospital in Madrid where he underwent four operations before being allowed to return to his home in Bilbao on December 9.
Ballesteros has been undergoing chemotherapy treatment since and took the chance to praise the doctors who performed the operations to remove the tumour, describing their work as "a miracle".
The charismatic Spaniard also likened his fight against the ailment to the birdie putt he sank on the 18th at St Andrews to help win the Open in 1984 - which he believes required a similar amount of willpower.
He added to BBC Sport: "My recovery is like The Open in 1984 when the ball hovered on the lip of the hole. With all my energy I willed the ball to drop in and it did.
"With that ability and the doctors' hands, I am here now."

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