Nick Price - "My First Win" SHORT TRACK

Intro Music 0:07

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

Mike Gonzalez 0:16

You jump right out the box and win the World Series of Golf at Firestone by four over a guy named Nicholas.

Nick Price 0:25

That was just uh another one of those weeks. And I, you know, I guess that was just as important to me that win as that win in San Diego in 1974 as a junior. It was a milestone in my career because I got a 10-year exemption. And a 10-year exemption on a PGA tour is like, I don't know what you can say. You you do you could you you cannot describe how much it means to a guy who comes from another country and can now set his sights for the next ten years.

Intro Music 1:01

Pick and choose wherever you want to play.

Nick Price 1:03

Pick and choose where you want to play. And and you know, I knew that the whole week, but I was uh I was just so focused. I'd found this swing key that it just I was flushing it and I hit the ball so well throughout the week. Um didn't have a whole lot of sleep that whole week. And I I can remember saying to one of my buddies afterwards, I said, I don't know how many tournaments Jack Nicholas has won, but I don't know if or he'd won 70 times, I think it was, or 60 or whatever many times. And I said to myself, I said to my buddy, I said, There's no way I can do that another 70 times because I and not have sleep. I was exhausted at the end of the week, you know. Uh but uh I managed to pull it off, and uh, you know, Jack was great. I mean, he came up to me on the 18th green, and of course I'm on cloud nine, the adrenaline's flowing through my body, and he was just so nice to me. He just said, you know, you played great, and you know, good luck with your career. You know, of that last round I actually played with uh uh Hail Irwin and Sao Aoki. So those were two guys who you know were were great players and were having great years then. So uh it was pretty harrowing.

Mike Gonzalez 2:18

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Intro Music 2:40

Smack down the fairway. It went smack down the fairway. When it started to slice, just smidge off line. It headed for two, but it bounced off nine. My caddis, as long as you're still in the state, you're okay. It went straight down the middle, file away.