About Nick Price - continue

No one won more PGA Tournaments, fifteen, in the 1990’s than Nick Price.  He also won an additional 12 international events in that decade.  Nick is one of only three players in the 1990’s to win two major titles in one season, joining Nick Faldo 1990 and Mark O’Meara in 1998.  He is one of only eight players since 1945 to capture consecutive majors (Ben Hogan, Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer, Lee Trevino, Tom Watson, Tiger Woods and Phil Mickleson.)

In 2002, Nick won the Mastercard Colonial and at the end of the year, had surpassed earnings of $2 million for the first time in his career, while finishing fifth in scoring average.  He was the first recipient of the ASAP Sports/Jim Murray Award, given to a professional player for his cooperation, quotability and accommodation to the media, and for reflecting the most positive aspects of the working relationship between athlete and journalist.  Nick Price was presented with the Payne Stewart award, given annually to the player sharing Stewart’s respect for the traditions of the game, his commitment to uphold the game’s heritage of charitable support and his professional and meticulous presentation of himself and the sport through his dress and conduct.