Nick Price

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

Basics

• Secondary School
  • Prince Edward School, Salisbury, Rhodesia (Now Harare, Zimbabwe)
• Turned Pro
  • 1977
• Current Tour
  • Retired
• Previous Tours
  • Champions Tour
  • European Tour
  • Sunshine Tour
  • PGA Tour

Results

• Professional Wins
  • 44
• Wins By Tour
  • PGA Tour: 18
  • European Tour: 7
  • Japan Golf Tour: 1
  • Sunshine Tour: 12
  • PGA Tour of Australasia: 2
  • PGA Tour Champions: 4
  • Other: 11
• Highest Ranking
  • 1 (August 14, 1994 – June 18, 1995)
• Best Major Results
  • The Masters: 5th (1986)
  • PGA Championship: Champion (1992 & ’94)
  • US Open: 4th (1992 & ’98)
  • The Open Championship: Champion (1994)
  • The Players’ Championship: Champion (1993)
• Awards
  • World Golf Hall of Fame: 2003
  • South Africa Tour Order of Merit¹: 1982-83 & ’96-’97
  • PGA Tour Money List Winner: 1993 & ’94
  • PGA Tour Player of the Year²: 1993 & ’94
  • PGA Player of the Year³: 1993 & ’94
  • Byron Nelson Award⁴: 1997
  • Vardon Trophy⁵: 1993 & ’97
  • Payne Stewart Award⁶: 1995
  • Bob Jones Award⁷: 2005
  • Old Tom Morris Award⁸: 2011
• International and Team Golf
  • Eisenhower Trophy⁹ Representing Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe)
    • 1976
  • World Cup of Golf¹⁰
    • 1978 Representing South Africa
    • 1993 Representing Zimbabwe
  • Alfred Dunhill Cup¹¹ – Representing Zimbabwe
    • 1993
    • 1994
    • 1995
    • 1996
    • 1997
    • 1998
    • 1999
    • 2000
  • Presidents Cup¹² (International Team – Representing Zimbabwe)
    • Player
      • 1994
      • 1996,
      • 1998
      • 2000
      • 2003 (tie)
    • Non Playing Captain
      • 2013
      • 2015
      • 2017
  • Alfred Dunhill Challenge¹³ – Representing Southern Africa
    • 1995 –
  • Wendy’s 3-Tour Challenge¹⁴ – Representing Champions Tour
    • 2007
    • 2008 –
    • 2009
    • 2010

1. Season winner for the Southern Africa Tour Winner. Prior to 1991, it followed the apartheid rules of South Africa. ↩︎
2. Award chosen by ballot of tour members ↩︎
3. Selected using points for wins, money list position and scoring average ↩︎
4. Awarded to the PGA Tour’s leader in adjusted scoring average. ↩︎
5. Awarded to the PGA Tour’s leader in scoring average. ↩︎
6. Given to a PGA Tour player whose “values align with the character, charity and sportsmanship that Stewart showed”. This includes respect for the traditions of the game, commitment to uphold the game’s heritage of charitable support and professional and meticulous presentation of himself and the sport through his dress and conduct ↩︎
7. Highest honor given by the USGA in recognition of distinguished sportsmanship in golf ↩︎
8. the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America’s most prestigious honor. It is presented each year to an individual who “through a continuing lifetime commitment to the game of golf has helped to mold the welfare of the game in a manner and style exemplified by Old Tom Morris.” ↩︎
9. The Eisenhower Trophy (World Men’s Amateur Team Championships) is the biennial World Amateur Team Championship for men organized by the International Golf Federation. ↩︎
10. The World Cup of Golf is a men’s golf tournament contested by teams of two representing their country. Only one team is allowed from each country. The players are selected on the basis of the Official World Golf Ranking, although not all of the first choice players choose to compete. ↩︎
11. The Alfred Dunhill Cup was a team golf tournament which ran from 1985 to 2000, sponsored by Alfred Dunhill Ltd. It was for three-man teams of professional golfers, one team representing each country, and was promoted as the “World Team Championship” Was played and hosted at the Old Course at St. Andrews. ↩︎
12. The Presidents Cup is a series of men’s golf matches between a team representing the United States and an International Team representing the rest of the world minus Europe. ↩︎
13. The Alfred Dunhill Challenge was a professional team golf tournament played at Houghton Golf Club, Johannesburg, South Africa between teams representing Southern Africa and Australasia. It was played from 24 to 26 February 1995 and involved four-ball and foursomes matches on the first two days, with 9 singles on the final day in a Ryder Cup style contest. Southern Africa won the match 14–11, having led 6½–1½ after first day and 9½–6½ after second day ↩︎
14. The Wendy’s 3-Tour Challenge was an unofficial golf event held in November at the Rio Secco Golf Club in Henderson, Nevada at Reflection Bay Golf Club. The tournament was a unique stroke play event, and, as the name suggests, pitted three teams, with three members per team, from the PGA Tour, the LPGA Tour, and the Champions Tour (known as the Senior PGA Tour prior to 2001) against each other ↩︎