Seve on collision course with Tour

THE FEATHERS were ruffled during last week’s Italian Open, but the fur could really fly at The Belfry over the next few days when Seve Ballesteros renews contact with the officials of the PGA Europen Tour during the Benson & Hedges International.

Seve is more convinced than ever that the tour has it in for him after his disqualification for slow play at Brescia and it remains to be seen how far he is prepared to go with the present conflict, having already launched a blistering verbal public attack on John Paramor and Ken Schofield .

There has never been much love lost between the Spaniard and the formidable Paramor, who once famously refused Seve a free drop from the butt of a tree at the final hole of a Volvo Masters at Valderrama. Ballesteros needed a par four to catch Bernhard Langer that day but Paramor's decision and the consequent bogey only served to add further to Seve's apparent sense of unfair treatment at the hands of Tour officials.