Seve cancels plans to go to St. Andrews | Golf News and Tour Information [Video]

Seve Ballesteros has canceled plans to play in the four-hole Champions Challenge at St. Andrews on the eve of the British Open on the advice of his doctors, he announced on his website.

Ballesteros, who has been battling brain cancer, arrived at the decision after undergoing routine tests that he has every three months. His medical team advised him “that at this time he should not put himself under any undue stress or in potentially emotional situations. It is for this reason that they have advised him against traveling to St. Andrews.”

“Despite the excellent general state that Mr. Ballesteros enjoys, we do not think the trip to Scotland, this coming July, would be appropriate,” his oncologist Dr. Cristobel Belda, said on the website. “It is important that Mr. Ballesteros continues with a peaceful life and our advice has been not to travel to Scotland.”

“I very much wanted to be at the British Open …