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Why they are here
He reached world number one in golf and won three majors — the most successful sportsman Zimbabwe has produced outside the swimming pool.
Nick Price was born in Durban and raised in Salisbury, now Harare, and served in the Rhodesian Air Force during the bush war before turning professional.
He lost the 1982 Open Championship at Troon after leading with six holes to play, and lost the 1988 Open at Lytham to a Seve Ballesteros round of 65 while himself shooting 69 — two of the more painful near-misses in the game. The response was to rebuild, and between 1992 and 1994 he was the best golfer in the world: the US PGA in 1992, then the Open at Turnberry and the US PGA again in 1994, both in the same season. He spent forty-three weeks at world number one and won eighteen PGA Tour titles.
He was known for an unusually quick swing and for being, by broad agreement among players, one of the most decent men in professional golf — he was given the Payne Stewart Award for sportsmanship and the Bob Jones Award, the USGA's highest honour.
He captained the International team at the Presidents Cup three times, and has continued to represent Zimbabwe in a period when few Zimbabwean sportspeople had an international platform at all.
He lost the 1982 Open Championship at Troon after leading with six holes to play, and lost the 1988 Open at Lytham to a Seve Ballesteros round of 65 while himself shooting 69 — two of the more painful near-misses in the game. The response was to rebuild, and between 1992 and 1994 he was the best golfer in the world: the US PGA in 1992, then the Open at Turnberry and the US PGA again in 1994, both in the same season. He spent forty-three weeks at world number one and won eighteen PGA Tour titles.
He was known for an unusually quick swing and for being, by broad agreement among players, one of the most decent men in professional golf — he was given the Payne Stewart Award for sportsmanship and the Bob Jones Award, the USGA's highest honour.
He captained the International team at the Presidents Cup three times, and has continued to represent Zimbabwe in a period when few Zimbabwean sportspeople had an international platform at all.
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