Nick Price
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| Personal Information | |
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| Birth | January 28, 1957 Durban, South Africa |
| Height | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) |
| Weight | 190 lb (86 kg) |
| Nationality |  Zimbabwe |
| Residence | Hobe Sound, Florida, U.S. |
| College | None |
| Career | |
| Turned Pro | 1977 |
| Current tour | Champions Tour |
| Professional wins | 43 (PGA Tour: 18, European Tour: 5, Other: 21) |
| Best Results in Major Championships Wins: 3 |
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| Masters | 5th: 1986 |
| U.S. Open | 4th/T4: 1992, 1998 |
| British Open | Won: 1994 |
| PGA Championship | Won: 1992, 1994 |
| Awards | |
| Sunshine Tour Order of Merit | 1982/83 |
| PGA Tour Money Winner |
1993, 1994 |
| Vardon Trophy | 1993, 1997 |
| Byron Nelson Award | 1997 |
| World Golf Hall of Fame | 2003 |
| Bob Jones Award | 2005 |
Nicholas Raymond Leige Price (born January 28, 1957) is a Zimbabwean professional golfer and inductee in the World Golf Hall of Fame. In the mid-nineties, Price reached number one in the Official World Golf Rankings.
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[edit] Background
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.
[edit] Career peak
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.
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.
Like fellow South African Gary Player, Price has expressed his distaste for the Ryder Cup tournament, saying of the event, "If you like root canals and hemorrhoids, you'd love it there."[1]
Price holds the course record (jointly with Greg Norman) at Augusta National which hosts the Masters after a round of 63 in the third round of the 1986 tournament.
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.
The strong sporting tradition in his family continues; he is related to Zimbabwean Test cricketer, Ray Price, who is his nephew and is also a handy golfer in his own right.
Price would write three words in his diary before each season: "Persistence, persistence, persistence".
[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 | Runner(s) 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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
[edit] Amateur
- Eisenhower Trophy (representing Zimbabwe): 1976
[edit] Professional
- Alfred Dunhill Cup (representing Zimbabwe): 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000
- World Cup of Golf: 1978 (representing South Africa), 1993 (representing Zimbabwe)
- Presidents Cup (International Team): 1994, 19946, 1998 (winners), 2000, 2003 (tie)
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ The Gigantic Book of Golf Quotations, ed. Jim Apfelbaum. 2007.
[edit] External links
- Official site
- Profile of the European Tour's official site
- Profile of the Sunshine Tour's official site
- Profile of the PGA Tour's official site
- Nick Price Profile and stats from About.com
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