Seve's 54th Birthday

From John Huggan's Golf World Daily column today on Seve's birthday, which features this sad revelation:

Two weeks ago Jose Maria Olazabal was unable to speak to his close friend and compatriot on the telephone, so debilitating has Seve's condition become.

"It's very for for me to see him the way he is now," says Olazabal, himself a two-time Masters champion. "I've been with him a few times in the last couple years and it is tough. I find it difficult to see a man I have shared so man special times with struggling with his health. He was so strong mentally and physically, and now, because of the medication, he is weak. The last time I was with him I had to help him out of his chair.