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Harrington calls for Seve honour

Padraig Harrington believes Seve Ballesteros should be given a high profile role by the European Tour
Padraig Harrington believes Seve Ballesteros should be given a high profile role by the European Tour

Padraig Harrington has hit out at golf's administrators for not doing enough to honour Seve Ballesteros.

The Dubliner feels Ballesteros, who is recovering from a brain tumour, should be made an ambassador of the European Tour.

Ballesteros has started a course of chemotherapy after being released on 9 December from a Madrid hospital.

Harrington told the Sunday Express: 'It is a shame that in recent years Seve has not been leading out the European Tour as an ambassador.

'He has that charisma and just needs to enter a room for everyone to know he is there.

'It's only when something like this happens that you see how much he is missed, so I hope the Tour can build more of a relationship with him and have him at the forefront of our Tour.'

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