Nick Price

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

Price is an Zimbabwean citizen but was born in Durban, South Africa. His early life was spent in Zimbabwe, 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 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.

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.

[edit] European Tour wins

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

[edit] PGA Tour wins

• 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

Major championships are shown in bold.

[edit] Other wins

• 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)

[edit] Results in major championships

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] External links

• Official site
• Profile of the European 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