Nick Price was born in South Africa, moved to Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) at an early age, served in the wartime air force, and won the World Junior title in California at age 17. Since then he's won 30 tournaments worldwide, 3 majors. He has enjoyed an astounding run that matched records set by Nicklaus, Palmer, Trevino, Watson, and Gary Player. As Feinstein wrote in A Good Walk Spoiled, "Price was playing a different game than the rest of them." Beyond that, according to Feinstein: "No one in golf is like Nick Price. If you took a poll among everyone connected with the tour -- players, sponsors, reporters, staffers -- and asked who is the nicest man playing the game right now, the vote would be almost unanimous. If a fan didn't vote for Price, it would be because they didn't know him or they picked him second just to be different." He lives in Florida with his wife and children, and spends two months a year at home in Zimbabwe.
The weekend hacker looking for a quick fix for an ailing golf swing won't find it in this solid, detailed instructional by Price, a leading money winner on the PGA Tour. Practice, study, and perseverance are his keys to better golf. Offering lessons learned over his own professional career, Price analyzes the components of the golf swing in detail, identifying benchmarks common to all consistent swings. His main theme is that practice and study can make any golfer "less of a thinker and more of a player." Among the photographs are two sequences showing the drastic difference in Price's swing in 1981‘at the beginning of his professional career‘and 1994, the year he won the British Open and PGA Championship. Also included are drills for developing various aspects of an effective swing and lists of key instructional points. A solid, no-nonsense golf instructional for the player willing to put the time in.‘Peter Ward, Lindenhurst Memorial Lib., West Islip, N.Y.
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