The Spanish Armada

During the glory days of Spanish golf in the late 1970s and 1980s, a veritable armada of talent cut a successful swathe through the European Tour, with Severiano Ballesteros, Antonio Garrido, José María Cañizares, Manuel Piñero and José Rivero all regular winners. José María Olazabal joined them in the late 1980s but, moving into the 1990s, the conquests became less frequent as the old guard sailed into the sunset.

Even if still today, only under one percent of the population plays golf, some of the greatest world players are Spanish. This is some basic info about them, together with some posts and photos of them: