10 July,2010 06:48 AM IST | | AFP
Spanish golfing legend Seve Ballesteros has asked himself several times why he was struck down with a brain tumour whose effects still plague him and has forced him to abandon an emotional return to St Andrews next week, the scene of one of his greatest triumphs in the British Open.
The 53-year-old told The Daily Telegraphu00a0-- his first newspaper interview for 18 monthsu00a0-- in an often emotional state that he cannot understand the swings and balances of his life.
"Every day I see the unbelievable things that happen to people and I don't understand why," said Ballesteros, who is residing on doctors orders in his house Pedrena 'his paradise' as he calls it above the Bay of Santander. "I think, 'why does it happen to those people'. I think the same thing with myself. Why did it happen to me? It is unfair, because I have been a good person. But it happens to some people and not to others.
"Why did I win at St Andrews (in 1984) out of 170 players? Maybe I was lucky. This is my approach to life: some days are good, some are bad. Some people are lucky, some are unlucky."
