The Spaniard hooked his drive wide into heavy rough on the 578-yard par-5 and could only hack his second into a fairway bunker some 245 yards from the flag. With his ball lying on an upslope at the front of the trap, only 15 feet from the lip, Seve took out his wooden Tony Penna 3-wood and curved a miraculous shot onto the fringe of a narrow green protected by water.

It came to rest some 50 feet from the hole. Zoeller could not believe his eyes. Seve halved the hole, Europe lost narrowly but a new era of European dominance had dawned.

Jack Nicklaus, the American captain, stated it was “the greatest shot I ever saw”

So how good was that shot? Ken Brown, Seve’s teammate, described it as “superhuman”. Commentator Peter Kostis said it was “singularly the best shot I have ever seen in over 35 years of broadcasting golf.”  Nick de Paul, Seve’s caddie, called it “one of the greatest shots in golf”, while Jack Nicklaus, the American captain, goes further, stating it’s “the greatest shot I ever saw”.

With Shot Quality, we can now see exactly how food it was. A Shot Quality score of 0 denotes the worst possible outcome, 100 represents the expected score of the average tour player, and 200 represents statistical perfection, such as a hole in one or holing out from long distance. As you can see, Seve's wonder shot was pretty special.

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