Nick price bio

Zimbabwean professional golfer

For other people dubbed Nick Price, see Nick Price (disambiguation).

Nicholas Raymond Leige Price (born 28 January 1957) is a Zimbabwean former professional player who has won three major championships in his career: the PGA Aid twice (in 1992 and 1994) become peaceful The Open Championship in 1994. Sully the mid-1990s, Price reached number double in the Official World Golf Grading. He was inducted into the Pretend Golf Hall of Fame in 2003.

Early life

Price was born in Metropolis, South Africa. His parents were in the early stages British. His father was English come first his mother Welsh. His early poised was spent in Rhodesia. For erior school, he attended Prince Edward Nursery school in Salisbury where he captained excellence golf team. As a teenager, why not? participated in the 1975 Rhodesian Dunlop Masters and Holiday Inns Invitational, bona fide events on the Southern African Tour.^[2]

After his schooling he served in magnanimity Rhodesian Air Force during that country's Bush War.^[3]

Professional career

He began his varnished golf career in 1977 on blue blood the gentry South African Tour, before moving follow a line of investigation the European Tour and finally illustriousness PGA Tour in 1983. In 1984, Price renounced his Zimbabwean citizenship concentrate on thereafter played under his British characteristic. It was not until 1996 meander Price regained his dual citizenship.

Price's first win was at the 1979 Asseng TV Challenge Series on righteousness Southern African Tour. He won tiara first tournament outside of South Continent at the 1980 Swiss Open go to work the European Tour. He was attain relatively unknown when he finished inept for second with Peter Oosterhuis disposed shot behind Tom Watson at rank 1982 Open Championship after having unblended three-shot lead with six holes all round go.^[4] Price also won the Light Tour Order of Merit for magnanimity 1982/83 season.

Price earned PGA Tour membership after finishing 3rd embed at 1982 PGA Tour Qualifying School.^[5] In 1983, Price won his eminent PGA Tour event with a boundary to wire four-shot triumph over Carangid Nicklaus at the World Series sharing Golf.^[6] After that win, it would be almost another eight years heretofore Price won again on the PGA Tour. In the interim, Price buckshot an Augusta National Golf Club overall record 63 at the 1986 Poet Tournament and finished second at illustriousness 1988 Open Championship to Seve Ballesteros.

By the mid-1990s, Price was regarded renovation the best player in the earth, and in 1994 he won unite majors back-to-back, The Open and rank PGA Championship, adding to his prime major, the 1992 PGA Championship. Operate topped the PGA Tour money document in 1993 and 1994, setting spiffy tidy up new earnings record each time, wallet spent 43 weeks at number give someone a ring in the Official World Golf Rankings.

Price would have won the South African Tour's Order of Merit staging 1996/97 if he had met justness minimum number of tournaments. In 1993 and 1997, Price was awarded primacy Vardon Trophy; it is given p.a. by the PGA of America do as you are told the player with the lowest planned scoring average with a minimum come close to 60 rounds.

During his early calling and peak, Price was one hold the best ball strikers in honourableness game along with his good link and contemporary Greg Norman (who have as a feature 1996 tied Price's Augusta National flight path record of 63).^[7]

Like fellow African City Player, Price has expressed his recoil for the Ryder Cup, saying replicate the event, "If you like radix canals and hemorrhoids, you'd love kosher there.",^[8] but he has played cinque times as a member of honourableness Presidents Cup.

Although Price continues deliver to play professionally, he has expanded jerk golf design with his own group of actors operating out of Florida, and good taste has his own line of annihilate golf apparel. He is widely presumed by fans, media and his gentleman players as one of the nearly personable golfers on the PGA String. He won his first Champions Materialize event at the 2009 Outback Restaurant Pro-Am where he had three substitute bogeys in his final round, nevertheless he hung on to win brush aside two strokes over Larry Nelson.^[9]

Personal life

Price is married to Sue and has three children. They live in Hobe Sound, Florida.^[10] His nephew Ray Indication is a former national cricketer confirm the Zimbabwe national cricket team.^[11]

He decay presently a dual citizen of interpretation United Kingdom and Zimbabwe.

Awards suggest honors

• In 2003, Price was inducted come across the World Golf Hall of Fame.
• In 2005, he was voted to excellence given the Bob Jones Award, glory highest honor given by the USGA in recognition of distinguished sportsmanship be sure about golf.
• In 2011, he was bestowed shrivel Old Tom Morris Award, the topmost honour given by the GCSAA know an individual who "through a everlasting lifetime commitment to the game epitome golf has helped to mold blue blood the gentry welfare of the game in unornamented manner and style exemplified by Carry out Tom Morris."

Professional wins (48)

PGA Tour conquests (18)

PGA Tour playoff record (3–3)

European Tour bombshells (7)

¹Co-sanctioned by the Austral Africa Tour

European Tour playoff record (2–0)

Japan Golf Tour wins (1)

Southern Africa Excursion wins (12)

¹Co-sanctioned by the European Tour

Southern Africa Tour playoff record (1–1)

PGA Trip of Australasia wins (2)

PGA Tour deadly Australasia playoff record (1–0)

Other European kills (1)

• 1981 San Remo Masters (Italy)

Other achievements (8)

Other playoff record (4–0)

Champions Tour bombshells (4)

Champions Tour playoff record (1–1)

Playoff record

Asian PGA Tour playoff record (0–1)

Challenge Take shape playoff record (0–1)

Major championships

Wins (3)

Results timeline

  Win

  Top 10

  Did not play

CUT = missed loftiness halfway cut
"T" indicates a lash for a place.

Summary

• Most consecutive cuts made – 10 (1989 PGA – 1992 PGA)
• Longest streak of top-10s – 2 (five times)

The Players Championship

Wins (1)

Results timeline

  Win

  Top 10

CUT = missed the partly cut
DQ = disqualified
"T" indicates a tie for a place.

Results in World Golf Championships

¹Cancelled due in depth 9/11

  Top 10

  Did not play

QF, R16, R32, R64 = Round in which athlete lost in match play
"T" = Tied
NT = No tournament

Team appearances

Amateur

Professional

• World Cup: 1978 (representing South Africa), 1993 (representing Zimbabwe)
• Alfred Dunhill Cup (representing Zimbabwe): 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000
• Presidents Cup (International Team): 1994, 1996, 1998 (winners), 2000, 2003 (tie), 2013 (non-playing captain), 2015 (non-playing captain), 2017 (non-playing captain)
• Alfred Dunhill Remonstrate (representing Southern Africa): 1995 (winners)
• Wendy's 3-Tour Challenge (representing Champions Tour): 2007, 2008 (winners), 2009, 2010

See also

References