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Nick Price Golf Player online information at WagerWeb Sportsbook
Nicholas Raymond Leige Price (born January 28, 1957) is a professional golfer and inductee in the World Golf Hall of Fame. In the mid-nineties, Price was regarded as the best player in the world.
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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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. 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.
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 also a handy golfer.
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
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