Nick Price (golfer)

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Nick Price
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Personnel
Nation: ZimbabweZimbabwe Zimbabwe
Career data
Professional since: 1977
Current tour: Champions Tour
Tournament wins: 50
Major wins : 3 (1992, 2/1994)
Awards: World Golf Hall of Fame (2003)

Bob Jones Award (2005)

Nicholas Raymond Leigh Price (born January 28, 1957 in Durban , South Africa ) is a professional golfer with Zimbabwean citizenship. He is a three-time major winner and led the world rankings for a long time in the early 1990s .

Career

Price grew up in Zimbabwe as a child of English immigrants. He has two brothers, Christopher and Timothy. His father served as an officer in the Indian Army of Britain. After his retirement he founded a clothing factory in Durban, South Africa. Before Price reached school age, the family moved to Zimbabwe, formerly Rhodesia. There he completed his two-year service in the Air Force during the Civil War. His father died of lung cancer in the early 1990s. His brother Christopher now lives with his mother in Norfolk, Timothy is a teaching pro in Zimbabwe. It was through him that Price got into golf when he was eight. At first he served his brother as a caddy, but soon he wanted to play himself. Since there were no clubs for him as a left-hander back then, Price learned to play the wrong way round. His first big success was winning the "World Junior Championship" in 1974. His role model in professional golf was Gary Player from the start . Price took over the training with dumbbells from him.

His professional career began in 1977 on the South African Sunshine Tour , before he switched to the European Tour in 1978 and finally to the PGA Tour in 1983 . There Price succeeded in winning a tournament in the same year, but times without a win followed until 1991, where before that he missed victory in the Open Championship in 1982 and then in 1988 by just one stroke. By the mid-1990s, he became the world's best player. His series from 1992 to 1994 is particularly impressive, in which Price won 16 of 54 tournaments worldwide, including three majors (two in a row in 1994) and the highly endowed Players Championship in 1993. He clearly dominated the PGA Tour money list in 1993 and 1994 with new earnings records , and led the official world rankings for 43 weeks .

Although Price still takes part in the tournament, he has built a reputation as an entrepreneur with his Florida-based company, golf course design and his own line of golf products. He lives in Hobe Sound , Florida with his wife Sue and their three children Gregory, Robyn Frances and Kimberley Rae .

In October 2013 Price was the captain of the international team at the Presidents Cup .

Awards

European Tour victories

PGA Tour victories

Major championships are in bold .

Champions Tour victories

  • 2009 Outback Steakhouse Pro-Am
  • 2010 Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf (with Mark O'Meara ), Principal Charity Classic
  • 2011 Toshiba Classic

Other tournament victories

  • 1979 Asseng TV Challenge Series (South Africa)
  • 1981 San Remo Masters (Italy), 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)
  • 2009 Wendy's 3 Tour Challenge (with Jay Haas and Fred Funk )
  • 2010 ADT Skills Challenge (with Mark O'Meara ; unofficial event)

Participation in team competitions

  • Eisenhower Trophy (amateur): 1976
  • Alfred Dunhill Cup (for Zimbabwe): 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000
  • World Cup : 1978 (for South Africa), 1993 (for Zimbabwe)
  • Presidents Cup (in the international team): 1994, 1996, 1998 (winner), 2000, 2003 (draw), 2013 ( non playing captain )

See also

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Price, Nick
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Price, Nicholas Raymond Leigh
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Zimbabwean golfer
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Durban , South Africa