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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.

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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.

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Nick Price

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".

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

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.

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)

Major Championships

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

Results timeline

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.

Team appearances

Amateur

Eisenhower Trophy (representing Zimbabwe): 1976

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)

References

^ The Gigantic Book of Golf Quotations, ed. Jim Apfelbaum. 2007.

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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[1] The Gigantic Book of Golf Quotations, ed. Jim Apfelbaum. 2007.

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v t e PGA Championship champions
Match play era	1916 Jim Barnes 1919 Jim Barnes 1920 Jock Hutchison 1921 Walter Hagen 1922 Gene Sarazen 1923 Gene Sarazen 1924 Walter Hagen 1925 Walter Hagen 1926 Walter Hagen 1927 Walter Hagen 1928 Leo Diegel 1929 Leo Diegel 1930 Tommy Armour 1931 Tom Creavy 1932 Olin Dutra 1933 Gene Sarazen 1934 Paul Runyan 1935 Johnny Revolta 1936 Denny Shute 1937 Denny Shute 1938 Paul Runyan 1939 Henry Picard 1940 Byron Nelson 1941 Vic Ghezzi 1942 Sam Snead 1944 Bob Hamilton 1945 Byron Nelson 1946 Ben Hogan 1947 Jim Ferrier 1948 Ben Hogan 1949 Sam Snead 1950 Chandler Harper 1951 Sam Snead 1952 Jim Turnesa 1953 Walter Burkemo 1954 Chick Harbert 1955 Doug Ford 1956 Jack Burke Jr. 1957 Lionel Hebert
Stroke play era	1958 Dow Finsterwald 1959 Bob Rosburg 1960 Jay Hebert 1961 Jerry Barber† 1962 Gary Player 1963 Jack Nicklaus 1964‡ Bobby Nichols 1965 Dave Marr 1966 Al Geiberger 1967 Don January† 1968 Julius Boros 1969‡ Raymond Floyd 1970 Dave Stockton 1971 Jack Nicklaus 1972 Gary Player 1973 Jack Nicklaus 1974 Lee Trevino 1975 Jack Nicklaus 1976 Dave Stockton 1977 Lanny Wadkins† 1978 John Mahaffey† 1979 David Graham† 1980 Jack Nicklaus 1981 Larry Nelson 1982‡ Raymond Floyd 1983‡ Hal Sutton 1984 Lee Trevino 1985 Hubert Green 1986 Bob Tway 1987 Larry Nelson† 1988 Jeff Sluman 1989 Payne Stewart 1990 Wayne Grady 1991 John Daly 1992 Nick Price 1993 Paul Azinger† 1994 Nick Price 1995 Steve Elkington† 1996 Mark Brooks† 1997 Davis Love III 1998 Vijay Singh 1999 Tiger Woods 2000‡ Tiger Woods† 2001 David Toms 2002 Rich Beem 2003 Shaun Micheel 2004 Vijay Singh† 2005 Phil Mickelson 2006 Tiger Woods 2007 Tiger Woods 2008 Pádraig Harrington 2009 Y. E. Yang 2010 Martin Kaymer† 2011 Keegan Bradley† 2012 Rory McIlroy 2013 Jason Dufner 2014 Rory McIlroy 2015 Jason Day 2016 Jimmy Walker 2017 Justin Thomas 2018 Brooks Koepka 2019 Brooks Koepka 2020 Collin Morikawa 2021 Phil Mickelson 2022 Justin Thomas† 2023 Brooks Koepka
† indicates the event was won in a playoff; ‡ indicates the event was won wire-to-wire; 1943 cancelled due to World War II

Revision as of 14:57, 7 August 2008

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