Nicholas Raymond Leige Price (born 28 January 1957) is a Zimbabwean retired 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.

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Nick Price
Price in 1994
Personal information
Full name	Nicholas Raymond Leige Price
Born	(1957-01-28) 28 January 1957 (age 67) Durban, Natal, Union of South Africa
Height	6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Weight	190 lb (86 kg; 14 st)
Sporting nationality	Zimbabwe
Residence	Jupiter, Florida, U.S.
Career
Turned professional	1977
Current tour(s)	Champions Tour
Former tour(s)	PGA Tour European Tour Sunshine Tour
Professional wins	48
Highest ranking	1 (14 August 1994)[1] (44 weeks)
Number of 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
Best results in major championships (wins: 3)
Masters Tournament	5th: 1986
PGA Championship	Won: 1992, 1994
U.S. Open	4th/T4: 1992, 1998
The Open Championship	Won: 1994
Achievements and awards
World Golf Hall of Fame 2003 (member page) Southern Africa Tour Order of Merit winner 1982–83, 1996–97 PGA Tour money list winner 1993, 1994 PGA Tour Player of the Year 1993, 1994 PGA Player of the Year 1993, 1994 Byron Nelson Award 1997 Vardon Trophy 1993, 1997 Payne Stewart Award 2002 Bob Jones Award 2005 Old Tom Morris Award 2011

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Price was born in Durban, South Africa. His parents were originally British. His father was English and his mother Welsh. His early life was spent in Rhodesia. For secondary school, he attended Prince Edward School in Salisbury where he captained the golf team. After his schooling he served in the Rhodesian Air Force during that country's Bush War.^[2]

He began his professional golf career in 1977 on the South African Tour, before moving to the European Tour and finally the PGA Tour in 1983. In 1984, Price renounced his Zimbabwean citizenship and thereafter played under his British passport. It was not until 1996 that Price regained his dual citizenship.

Price's first win was at the 1979 Asseng TV Challenge Series on the Southern African Tour. He won his first tournament outside of South Africa at the 1980 Swiss Open on the European Tour. He was still relatively unknown when he finished tied for second with Peter Oosterhuis one shot behind Tom Watson at the 1982 Open Championship after having a three-shot lead with six holes to go.^[3] Price also won the Sunshine Tour Order of Merit for the 1982/83 season.

Price earned PGA Tour membership after finishing 3rd place at 1982 PGA Tour Qualifying School.^[4] In 1983, Price won his first PGA Tour event with a wire to wire four-shot triumph over Jack Nicklaus at the World Series of Golf.^[5] After that win, it would be almost another eight years before Price won again on the PGA Tour. In the interim, Price shot an Augusta National Golf Club course record 63 at the 1986 Masters Tournament and finished second at the 1988 Open Championship to Seve Ballesteros.

By the mid-1990s, 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, the 1992 PGA Championship. He topped the PGA Tour money list in 1993 and 1994, setting a new earnings record each time, and spent 43 weeks at number one in the Official World Golf Rankings.

Price would have won the Southern African Tour's Order of Merit in 1996/97 if he had met the minimum number of tournaments. In 1993 and 1997, Price was awarded the Vardon Trophy; it is given annually by the PGA of America to the player with the lowest adjusted scoring average with a minimum of 60 rounds.

During his early career and peak, Price was one of the best ball strikers in the game along with his good friend and contemporary Greg Norman (who in 1996 tied Price's Augusta National course record of 63).^[6]

Like fellow African Gary Player, Price has expressed his distaste for the Ryder Cup, saying of the event, "If you like root canals and hemorrhoids, you'd love it there.",^[7] but he has played five times as a member of the Presidents Cup.

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. He is widely regarded by fans, media and his fellow players as one of the most personable golfers on the PGA Tour. He won his first Champions Tour event at the 2009 Outback Steakhouse Pro-Am where he had three double bogeys in his final round, but he hung on to win by two strokes over Larry Nelson.^[8]

Price is married to Sue and has three children. They live in Hobe Sound, Florida.^[9] His nephew Ray Price is a former national cricketer for the Zimbabwe national cricket team.^[10]

He is presently a dual citizen of the United Kingdom and Zimbabwe.

• In 2003, Price was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame.
• In 2005, he was voted to be given the Bob Jones Award, the highest honor given by the USGA in recognition of distinguished sportsmanship in golf.
• In 2011, he was bestowed with Old Tom Morris Award, the highest honour given by the GCSAA 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."

Asian PGA Tour playoff record (0–1)

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No.	Year	Tournament	Opponent	Result
1	2002	Macau Open	Zhang Lianwei	Lost to par on fifth extra hole

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Challenge Tour playoff record (0–1)

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No.	Year	Tournament	Opponents	Result
1	1991	Zimbabwe Open	Grant Turner, Keith Waters	Waters won with birdie on fifth extra hole Price eliminated by par on first hole

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¹Cancelled due to 9/11

QF, R16, R32, R64 = Round in which player lost in match play
"T" = Tied
NT = No tournament

Amateur

• Eisenhower Trophy (representing Rhodesia): 1976

Professional

• World Cup: 1978 (representing South Africa), 1993 (representing Zimbabwe)
• Alfred Dunhill Cup (representing Zimbabwe): 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000
• Presidents Cup (International Team): 1994, 1996, 1998 (winners), 2000, 2003 (tie), 2013 (non-playing captain), 2015 (non-playing captain), 2017 (non-playing captain)
• Alfred Dunhill Challenge (representing Southern Africa): 1995 (winners)
• Wendy's 3-Tour Challenge (representing Champions Tour): 2007, 2008 (winners), 2009, 2010

• 1982 PGA Tour Qualifying School graduates
• List of golfers with most PGA Tour wins
• List of men's major championships winning golfers