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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. He now lives in Hobe Sound, Florida.

After a promising start, 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. He 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.

He won the Sunshine Tour Order of Merit for the 1982/83 season and would of won again in 1996/97 if he had met the minimum number of tournaments. In 1993 and 1997, Price was awarded the Vardon Trophy; this award is given annually by the PGA of America to the tour 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.

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[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)
  • 2006 CVS/pharmacy Charity Classic (with Tim Clark; unofficial event)

[edit] Results in major championships

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

[edit] External links


Official World Golf Rankings | World No. 1's in Men's Golf
Severiano Ballesteros | Fred Couples | David Duval | Ernie Els | Nick Faldo | Bernhard Langer | Tom Lehman | Greg Norman | Nick Price | Vijay Singh | Tiger Woods | Ian Woosnam

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