Both started with a tee shot that sailed some 60 yards to the right during the final round of the British Open, and that’s where the similarities end.
Seve Ballesteros didn’t have to take a penalty drop from near the front tire of a black car in a parking lot at Royal Lytham & St. Annes. He had a two-shot lead, and once he dropped his ball away from the cars, he had a short iron onto the green. The great Spaniard went on to capture his first major championship in 1979, and he was jokingly referred to as the “Car Park Champion.