When Thomas Bjorn entered the European team room at Valderrama for the first time for the 1997 Ryder Cup, he felt akin to a fraud. There was just one tournament win to his name, from Loch Lomond the preceding year, but in front of him was a team, including captain Seve Ballesteros, with 15 majors between them. “There were several greats of the game in our side such as [Nick] Faldo, [Bernhard] Langer, Woosie [Ian Woosnam], Olly [Jose Maria Olazabal] and, of course, Seve,” recalled Bjorn. “These were guys that had done so much for European golf and laid the foundations for the guys who play today. They were also guys I’d grown up watching win the greatest tournaments around the world. “There I was, all of a sudden, sitting in the same team room as them, which was quite daunting at first. But it was one of the weeks I am most grateful for in my career, being able to do just that: sit and listen to them; play and practise with them; and be able to win the trophy for Seve with them, too.” Bjorn knows he would do well to channel his inner ‘Seve’, although his captaincy… Read full this story
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