Nick Price

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Nicholas Raymond Leige Price (born January 28, 1957) is a professional golfer.

Price is a Zimbabwean citizen, but was born in Durban, South Africa. His early life was spent in Zimbabwe (then called Rhodesia), a time that included a stint in the army during that country's civil war. His parents were originally English. He began his professional golf career in 1977 on the Southern Africa Tour, before moving to the European Tour and finally the PGA Tour in 1983. Price now lives in Hobe Sound, Florida.

After a promising start in golf with a victory in his first year in the USA, his career faded somewhat before an impressive comeback at the beginning of the nineties.

By the mid-nineties, Price was regarded as the best player in the world, and in 1994 he won two majors back-to-back, The Open and the PGA Championship, adding to his first major (also the PGA Championship) from 1992. He topped the PGA Tour money list in 1993 and 1994, setting a new earnings record each time, and spent 43 weeks at number 1 in the Official World Golf Rankings. Price was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2003.

Although Price continues to play professionally, he has expanded into golf design with his own company operating out of Florida, and he has his own line of signature golf apparel. Price is widely regarded by fans, media and his fellow players as one of the most personable golfers on the PGA Tour.

Price won the Sunshine Tour Order of Merit for the 1982/83 season and would have won again in 1996/97 if he had met the minimum number of tournaments. In 1993 and 1997, Price was awarded the Vardon Trophy; which is given annually by the PGA of America to the player with the lowest adjusted scoring average with a minimum of 60 rounds. In 2005, he was voted the Bob Jones Award, the highest honor given by the United States Golf Association in recognition of distinguished sportsmanship in golf.

Contents 1 PGA Tour wins (18) 2 European Tour wins (5) 3 Other wins (21) 4 Major Championships 4.1 Wins (3) 4.2 Results timeline 5 Team appearances 6 See also 7 External links

[edit] PGA Tour wins (18)

• 1983 (1) World Series of Golf
• 1991 (2) GTE Byron Nelson Golf Classic, Canadian Open
• 1992 (2) PGA Championship, H.E.B. Texas Open
• 1993 (4) The PLAYERS Championship, Canon Greater Hartford Open, Sprint Western Open, Federal Express St. Jude Classic
• 1994 (6) Honda Classic, Southwestern Bell Colonial, Motorola Western Open, The Open Championship, PGA Championship, Bell Canadian Open
• 1997 (1) MCI Classic
• 1998 (1) FedEx St. Jude Classic
• 2002 (1) MasterCard Colonial

[edit] European Tour wins (5)

• 1980 Swiss Open
• 1985 Lancome Trophy
• 1994 The Open Championship
• 1997 Dimension Data Pro-Am, Alfred Dunhill South African PGA Championship

Major championships are shown in bold.

[edit] Other wins (21)

• 1979 Asseng TV Challenge Series (South Africa)
• 1981 San Remo Masters (Italy - not a European Tour event), SAB South African Masters
• 1982 Sigma Vaals Reef Open (South Africa)
• 1985 ICL International (South Africa)
• 1989 West End South Australian Open
• 1992 Air New Zealand/Shell Open, PGA Grand Slam of Golf
• 1993 ICL International (South Africa), Million Dollar Challenge (South Africa)
• 1994 ICL International (South Africa)
• 1995 Alfred Dunhill Challenge (South Africa), Hassan II Golf Trophy (Morocco), Zimbabwe Open
• 1997 Million Dollar Challenge (South Africa), Zimbabwe Open
• 1998 Nedbank Million Dollar Challenge (South Africa), Zimbabwe Open, Dimension Data Pro-Am (South Africa)
• 1999 Suntory Open (Japan Golf Tour)
• 2006 CVS/pharmacy Charity Classic (with Tim Clark; unofficial event)

[edit] Major Championships

[edit] Wins (3)

Year	Championship	54 Holes	Winning Score	Margin of Victory	Runners Up
1992	PGA Championship	2 shot deficit	-6 (70-70-68-70=278)	3 strokes	John Cook, Nick Faldo, Jim Gallagher, Jr., Gene Sauers
1994	The Open Championship	1 shot deficit	-12 (69-66-67-66=268)	1 stroke	Jesper Parnevik
1994	PGA Championship (2)	3 shot lead	-11 (67-65-70-67=269)	6 strokes	Corey Pavin

[edit] Results timeline

Tournament	1975	1976	1977	1978	1979
Masters Tournament	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
U.S. Open	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP
The Open Championship	CUT	DNP	DNP	T39	DNP
PGA Championship	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP

Tournament	1980	1981	1982	1983	1984	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989
Masters Tournament	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	CUT	DNP	5	T22	T14	CUT
U.S. Open	DNP	DNP	DNP	T48	DNP	CUT	DNP	T17	T40	CUT
The Open Championship	T27	T23	T2	CUT	T44	CUT	DNP	T8	2	CUT
PGA Championship	DNP	DNP	DNP	T67	T54	5	CUT	T10	T17	T46

Tournament	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999
Masters Tournament	DNP	T49	T6	CUT	T35	CUT	T18	T24	CUT	T6
U.S. Open	DNP	T19	T4	T11	CUT	T13	DNP	T19	4	T23
The Open Championship	T25	T44	T51	T6	1	T40	T45	CUT	T29	T37
PGA Championship	T63	DNP	1	T31	1	T39	T8	T13	T4	5

Tournament	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006
Masters Tournament	T11	CUT	T20	T23	T6	CUT	DNP
U.S. Open	T27	CUT	T8	T5	T24	T9	CUT
The Open Championship	CUT	T27	T14	T28	T30	CUT	DNP
PGA Championship	CUT	T21	CUT	DNP	DNP	DNP	CUT

DNP = did not play
CUT = missed the half way cut
"T" indicates a tie for a place.
Green background for wins. Yellow background for top-10.

[edit] Team appearances

• Eisenhower Trophy (amateur): 1976
• Alfred Dunhill Cup (for Zimbabwe): 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000
• World Cup of Golf: 1978 (for South Africa), 1993 (for Zimbabwe)
• Presidents Cup (International Team): 1994, 1996, 1998 (winners), 2000, 2003

[edit] See also

• Golfers with most PGA Tour wins

[edit] External links

• Official site
• Profile of the European Tour's official site
• Profile of the Sunshine Tour's official site
• Nick Price at Golf Stars Online Links to relevant sites, interviews, feature articles and similar.
• Nick Price Profile and stats from About.com

Official World Golf Rankings | World No. 1's in men's golf since 1986.
Severiano Ballesteros | Fred Couples | David Duval | Ernie Els | Nick Faldo | Bernhard Langer | Tom Lehman | Greg Norman | Nick Price | Vijay Singh | Tiger Woods † | Ian Woosnam
† Tiger Woods (USA) is the current World No. 1, and has spent most weeks in that position, currently over 400.