Franklin Templeton Shootout
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| | FINAL ROUND | | Place | Team | Score | | 1 | Bradley/Steele | -32 | | T2 | Sabbatini/Vegas | -29 | | T2 | Calcavecchia/Price | -29 | | T4 | Kelly/Stricker | -28 | | T4 | Howell/Leonard | -28 | | Full Leaderboard » |
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| Nick Price |
| PGA TOUR Victories | | (18) 1983 World Series of Golf. 1991 GTE Byron Nelson Golf Classic, Canadian Open. 1992 PGA Championship, H.E.B. Texas Open. 1993 THE PLAYERS Championship, Canon Greater Hartford Open, Sprint Western Open, Federal Express St. Jude Classic. 1994 Honda Classic, Southwestern Bell
Colonial, Motorola Western Open, British Open Championship, PGA Championship, Bell Canadian Open. 1997 MCI Classic. 1998 FedEx St. Jude Classic. 2002 MasterCard Colonial.
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| Champions Tour Victories | | (4) 2009 Outback Steakhouse Pro-Am. 2010 Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf, The Principal Charity Classic. 2011 Toshiba Classic. |
| Other Victories | | (30): 1979 Asseng Invitational. 1980 Canon European Masters. 1981 San Reno Masters, South African Masters. 1982 Vaals Reef Open. 1985 Trophee Lancome, ICL International. 1989 West End South Australian Open. 1992 Air New Zealand/Shell Open, PGA Grand Slam of Golf. 1993 ICL International, Sun City Million Dollar Challenge. 1994
British Open, ICL International. 1995 Alfred Dunhill Challenge, Hassan II Golf Trophy, Zimbabwe Open. 1997 Dimension Data Pro-Am, Alfred Dunhill South African PGA, Zimbabwe Open, Million Dollar Challenge. 1998 Dimension Data Pro-Am, Zimbabwe Open, Million Dollar Challenge. 1999 Suntory Open. 2001 CVS Charity Classic [with Mark Calcavecchia]. 2006 CVS Charity Classic [with Tim Clark]. 2008 Wendy's 3-Tour Challenge [with Fred Funk and Jay Haas]. 2009 CVS Caremark Charity Classic [with David Toms]. 2010 ADT Skills Challenge [with Mark O'Meara]. |
| Current Year Highlights | | Went wire to wire for victory at the Toshiba Classic, holding off Mark Wiebe by one stroke at Newport Beach for his fourth Champions Tour victory. Matched the lowest round in Champions Tour history, eagling two of the final four holes in the opening round of the Toshiba Classic
for a career-best 11-under-par 60. Five-stroke advantage also matched the biggest first-round lead in Champions Tour annals...On the leaderboard throughout the Mississippi Gulf Resort Classic, and final-round 67 led to a T2 with David Frost and Jeff Sluman, four strokes back of Tom Lehman...Also closed with a 66 at the Dick's Sporting Goods Open to finish second to John Huston by three strokes. Check for $154,000 put him over the $1-million mark for the fourth straight year...Made birdies on three of the last four holes at The Quarry to move into a T3 with Russ Cochran at The ACE Group Classic, five strokes back of winner Bernhard Langer...Had a nice showing at the Regions Tradition at Shoal Creek, finishing T5...Was T5 at the Greater Hickory Classic at Rock Barn...Was a 36-hole co-leader at the SAS Championship, but a final-round 75 dropped him into a T6 near Raleigh...Made his first start in a PGA TOUR event in nearly three years when he competed at The Honda Classic, where he finished T55...Selected as the Champions Tour Player of the Month for March/April. |
| Career Highlights | | 2010: Had his best year on the Champions Tour, winning multiple official titles for the first time on TOUR since 1994 and led the circuit in the All-Around stats category (52)...Credited a switch to the belly putter in late February in Boca Raton as the reason for his success
and reeled off eight top-10 performances in nine starts after changing putters...First of two titles came in late April, when he teamed with Mark O'Meara to win the Legends Division at the Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf in April. His par on the second playoff hole gave the team the victory over John Cook/Joey Sindelar. Duo finished with a 54-hole, bogey-free total of 28-under-par 188...Was selected as the Champions Tour's Player of the Month for June after he added a second title at The Principal Charity Classic. Avenged a playoff loss the year prior with a four-stroke victory over Tommy Armour III, thanks to a final-round 67 at Glen Oaks. Became the first player since R.W. Eaks at the 2007 Greater Hickory Classic at Rock Barn to win a tournament after losing in a playoff the year prior...Later that same month,was T3 at the Dick's Sporting Goods Open after leading midway through the final round...Forced to withdraw from the U.S. Senior Open at Sahalee in late July after suffering a freak toe injury just prior to the event...One week later, finished T3 at the 3M Championship, thanks to an 8-under-par 64 in the final round. His check for $105,000 pushed his season earnings over the $1-million mark for the third straight year...In late August, flirted with another victory at the Boeing Classic near Seattle before finishing solo second. Opened with a 9-under-63 and trailed Bernhard Langer by one stroke after 36 holes. However, a slow start in Sunday's final round (2-over-par on front nine) would prove costly and, despite birdies on his final two holes, finished three strokes back of Langer...Had several other opportunties to win during the season. Was among a large group tied for the lead early in the final round of the Allianz Championship and remained in contention until a double bogey at No. 15 dropped him into an eventual T9 in Boca Raton. Also was one stroke off Corey Pavin's 36-hole lead at The Cap Cana Championship, played in the final grouping and was in contention early Sunday before eventually finishing T4 in the Dominican Republic...Opened his season by teaming with Fred Couples to finish third at the 2010 Wendy's Champions Skins Game. Duo captured three skins and $190,000 in Hawaii...Closed his season by teaming with O'Meara again to win the ADT Skills Challenge in Palm Beach, defeating Couples and Dustin Johnson in a playoff...Topped the Champions Tour in Round 1 Scoring Average (68.06) and ranked second in overall Scoring Average (69.09)...Was also fourth overall in Top-10 Finishes (12). 2009: Turned in another steady year on the circuit and finally broke through with his first Champions Tour career title...Win came in his 39th career start on the Tour at the Outback Steakhouse Pro-Am. Two-stroke victory over Larry Nelson at TPC Tampa Bay also ended a TOUR victory drought of 111 events, dating to the 2002 MasterCard Colonial. Up-and-down final round included three double bogeys, a bogey and seven birdies, including three in a row (holes 13-15) that propelled him to victory...Made a strong run at a second title in Iowa before finishing T2. Was the 36-hole leader at The Principal Charity Classic and made a clutch, downhill 23-foot birdie putt on the final hole of regulation to get into a playoff with Fred Funk and eventual winner Mark McNulty. Was eliminated from the overtime on the second exta hole when Funk and Price both made birdies...Made another strong bid at the SAS Championship, tying both David Frost and Tom Pernice, Jr. for the lead with a birdie on No. 17 Sunday. Eventually finished T2 with Frost after Pernice holed a 36-foot birdie putt on the final hole...Shared the 36-hole lead with Jay Haas at the Greater Hickory Classic at Rock Barn and closed with a 4-under-par 68 to T4 at the event...Contended for all three rounds at the 3M Championship before eventually finishing T5 at the TPC Twin Cities in July near Minneapolis. Was the 36-hole leader and led for a portion of Sunday's final round but was unable to maintain his position, eventually shooting a 1-under-par 71 to finish four strokes behind Bernhard Langer...Also was T9 at the Constellation Energy Senior Players Championship...At one point during the year put together a run where 24 of his 27 rounds were below par...Partnered with PGA TOUR player David Toms to victory at the CVS Caremark Charity Classic in Rhode Island in June. It was his third victory in the event and each has come with a different partner. 2008: Was among the top-five in more than a third of his appearances on the Champions Tour, but missed some golden opportunities to win during the season. Finished fourth on the circuit in scoring average (69.71) and went over seven figures in official money for the first time since the 2003 PGA TOUR season despite taking two months off during the summer to vacation with his family...Had first brush with a victory in his second start of the year at The ACE Group Classic in Naples. Had a chance of joining the four-man playoff, which included eventual-winner Scott Hoch, but missed a birdie opportunity at No. 18 leaving him one stroke shy and in a T5...Second shot at a win came in early May at the FedEx Kinko's Classic. Appeared to be in control midway through the final round at The Hills but eventually finished T2 in the event, one stroke back of fellow countryman Denis Watson. Enjoyed a three-stroke lead with four to play but made back-to-back double-bogeys on No. 15 and No. 16 after his ball found the water on each hole. Still had a chance to send the event into a playoff, but missed a 15-foot birdie effort on the final hole that left him one stroke short...Next chance at a win came at The Principal Charity Classic in Iowa. Was the 36-hole leader at Glen Oaks but eventually finished third, two strokes back of Jay Haas, despite carding a final-round 69...In his next start after Iowa, was T2 again at the Commerce Bank Championship, one stroke back of Loren Roberts. Made a Sunday charge up the leaderboard with a final-round 65 at Eisenhower Red that matched the low round of the tournament...Final attempt at a win came late in the season. Was the 54-hole leader at the Constellation Energy Senior Players Championship but eventually finished T3 at Baltimore CC, two strokes back of D.A. Weibring. Enjoyed a four-stroke lead over Weibring after four holes Sunday but fell out of the lead after three bogeys in a six-hole stretch (Nos. 5-10). Still had opportunites to catch Weibring down the stretch but missed a short birdie putt at No. 17 and then bogeyed the final hole...Teed it up at the PGA TOUR's Mayakoba Golf Classic at Riviera Maya and was T14 after 54 holes before a final-round 74 left him T42 in Mexico. 2007: Rookie season on the Champions Tour saw him compete in 15 events and finish 40th on the final money list...Best showing of the season came in May at the Senior PGA Championship. In the final grouping Sunday for the first time in his Champions Tour career when he was T2 after 54 holes. Eventually finished third at Kiawah Island, SC, three strokes back of childhood friend Denis Watson...Carded a final-round 63 at The Boeing Championship at Sandestin. Sunday score was his career-best on the Champions Tour and was a 17-stroke improvement over Saturday round...Debuted on the Champions Tour at the Allianz Championship in Boca Raton, FL, and finished T20 on The Old Course at Broken Sound.
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| Personal | | Published The Swing in 1997...Born in South Africa, moved to Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) at an early age...After a decade of collaborating with a variety of architects, formed his own design company, Nick Price Golf Course Design. Currently designing golf courses in South Africa, Dominican Republic and the TPC in
Cancun, Mexico, and also has designed courses in Zimbabwe, the Phillipines, Hong Kong and Portugal...Web site is nickprice.com. |
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