The elbow injury that drove Nick Price from the PGA Tour Champions a bit earlier than he had planned turned out to be the best thing for him.<\/p>\n
Few other players have crushed it when it comes to retiring from the golf.<\/p>\n
He played the PNC Championship with his son, Gregory, his only real competition of the year. The swing that carried Price to three majors, No. 1 in the world and the Hall of Fame is still evident because he plays about 25 rounds a year, mostly with friends.<\/p>\n
Otherwise, he\u2019s traveling with his wife, Sue, and enjoying life like never before. He was in Iceland to fish for Atlantic Salmon. He hit all the national parks in the western U.S.<\/p>\n
\u201cI went all over the place when I was playing,\u201d he said, \u201cbut I never got to enjoy those places.\u201d<\/p>\n
He and his wife will hop over to the Bahamas to fish. He also likes \u201cwing shooting,\u201d particularly dove hunting in Argentina. And he loves quail hunting with a shotgun.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you shoot like I do, the bird has a good chance,\u201d Price said. \u201cIt\u2019s great fun. It\u2019s like a golf trip but no one cares what you shoot.\u201d<\/p>\n
Retirement also gives him more time in his home country of Zimbabwe. Price turns 69 in January, and he says age \u2014 and personal history \u2014 adds to the appreciation of what he gets to do.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor me, it goes back to my roots when I was in the military during the Rhodesian days, where I saw guys\u2019 lives cut short when they were 17, 18, 19 years old,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd my dad dying when I was young left a determination in me to live my life to the fullest, because you never know when it\u2019s going to stop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The elbow injury that drove Nick Price from the PGA Tour Champions a bit earlier than he had…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":485217,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[1430,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-485216","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115821065221840113","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}