Nick Price - "Homage to Seve" SHORT TRACK

Intro Music 0:07

Straight down the middle. It went straight down the middle. Then it started to hook just a wee.

Mike Gonzalez 0:16

That was it. It was all in the greens, huh?

Nick Price 0:18

Yeah, I played so well T to green that week. Um, you know, another one of those weeks where I I just felt that I had good really good control of my uh of my golf swing. And uh uh you know my ball flight was good and it was windy there. Well Lithum's a really tough golf course because you there's more crosswind holes at Lithum than on any of the other um links courses we play. Um I think a lot of bunkers. A lot of bunkers, yeah. Yeah, a lot of bunkers. And uh but uh I think a really good test of golf. And uh, you know, Sevi and I were playing with Felder the last round, and after six holes, we'd basically one of us was gonna win. We'd left the field behind. And uh we we had a back nine there from from like seven onwards where it was just punch and counter punch, and it was great fun. You know, I mean I'd always wanted to be involved in something like that, but obviously win. But uh, you know, I came I came second and uh to probably one of the one of the greatest final rounds, I think, in sort of modern open history that he played. He hit one of the prettiest, prettiest shots, a little nine-in on 16 um from I don't know, maybe 125, 130 yards into a little breeze. Just the most perfect shot at the time, and nearly hold it. I mean he hit it inches from the hole. Uh how it didn't go in, I don't know. Uh but I was standing right next to him, and uh I just uh you know you did you you expected that from him, you know. Um but what a what a great what a great champion he was. And also one of my I liked the you know, one of my really good friends. Um we were basically the same we were the same age, uh born the same year. We we've had different paths to winning majors, but there that guy, he made the European tour what it is today, is no doubt. He did what Arnold Palmer, I think, in the modern game, uh did for the US tour, uh and Jack, uh uh but Sevy when we were playing in Europe, there would be five thousand people on the golf course on Sunday, and four thousand nine hundred and ninety-five were watching him. The other five were players' wives, yeah.

Mike Gonzalez 2:42

Oh well, he took the writer cup to another level too, didn't he?

Nick Price 2:45

Oh yeah. Such a competitive guy. I mean, uh uh but uh also he just had that you know he had everything, Sevy. You know, he had the movie star looks, he had a fantastic, this dashing this fantastic smile. He played golf with a panache that I mean I always said, you know, for most of us we can shoot 64, you know, probably about 20, 30 different ways. Uh Sevi had 1,500 ways of shooting 64. You know, if he did three greens in regulation and chip in eight times, or you know, uh I mean the guy was amazing. He'd make 12 birdies and bogey four holes, uh or whatever it was, you know. I mean the guy uh it was so exciting to watch, you know. He was terrifying, uh not terrifying, but I mean he was very hard to play match play against because the guy could he believed he could get the ball up and down out of anything. And um you know, stroke play was a little different because you know uh you know, he he didn't want to make double bogeys and that, but you know, match play he he was brutal to play against.

Mike Gonzalez 3:51

Yeah. Well as a Spaniard and a Spanish citizen myself, he was always one of my favorites.

Nick Price 3:56

Yeah, and mine too. Just privileged that I got to play as much golf with him as I did. And um, you know, he beat me at the world match play in in uh I think it was 1989, and uh he beat me three and two and he was fourteen under for the day. And just played magnificently. And I said to him, I said, Why when you play with against me, you play like this, you know, you you play like this against me at the British Open and now at the match play. So he got a big kick out of that though.

Mike Gonzalez 4:30

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Intro Music 4:54

It went smack down the fairway. When it's time to slice, just smack your flat.