Nick Price biography
Nick Price, byname of Nicholas Raymond Leige Price, (born January 28, 1957, Durban, South Africa), South African-born golfer who was one of many sport’s main gamers within the early Nineties.
Price’s household moved to Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), the place he started enjoying golf at age eight. At age 17 he traveled to the United States and received the Junior World event in San Diego, California. Price spent the subsequent 12 months (1975) enjoying on the South African and European excursions as an newbie. He served two years within the Rhodesian air drive as a pilot after which rejoined the European Tour as knowledgeable in 1977.
He joined the Professional Golfers’ Association of America (PGA) Tour full-time in 1983 and confirmed nice promise, profitable the World Series of Golf that 12 months by 4 strokes over Jack Nicklaus. In the years that adopted, Price was hailed by his friends as top-of-the-line, and most likable, golfers on the tour. After profitable the World Series, nevertheless, he didn't seize one other PGA Tour occasion for eight years.
In 1982 Price narrowly missed profitable the Open Championship (British Open). He held a three-stroke lead with six holes left to play, however then he faltered, and Tom Watson beat him by one stroke. Finally, in 1991, Price received two PGA occasions, the Byron Nelson Classic and the Canadian Open. The following 12 months he completed first on the PGA Championship, which started an unimaginable 24-month run during which he received 16 occasions and completed within the high 10 in 37 of 59 tournaments. The fifteenth win got here in July 1994 on the Open Championship, the place Price avenged his 1982 heartbreak by sinking a spectacular 18-metre (60-foot) putt for an eagle on the second-to-last gap, a shot that clinched his victory. Then, in August on the PGA Championship, he shot an 11-under-par 269 to win and turn into the seventh golfer to seize back-to-back majors. Less than a month later he received the Bell Canadian Open.
After this profitable run Price struggled, profitable solely three PGA occasions between 1995 and 2006. In 2007 he joined the Champions Tour, for golfers aged 50 or older. Two years later he received his first event on that tour. Price additionally designed golf programs and {golfing} attire. He was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2003.