adminDUBLIN, OHIO. — Zimbabwe golf legend Nick Price is ready to lead his International Team in the Presidents Cup against the United States here this week.
This week he addressed a media conference.
Dave Senko: Well, we’d like to welcome World Golf Hall of Famer Nick Price into the media centre. How have the preparations been coming along with the Presidents Cup being right around the corner?
Nick Price: Preparations started back a long time ago with selection of uniforms and trying to figure out all the transportation and the rooms and how we’re doing it. A lot of decisions that need to be made, which, you know, you may think it’s tedious but I think it’s quite fun. My wife and I enjoyed it quite a lot, putting our personal touch on it what we think is the best way of doing things.
Now it’s coming down to crunch time for us, obviously the two picks coming out on Wednesday and there’s going to be a lot of my three co captains, we’re going to do a lot of strategising once the team is finally picked as to who we feel is going to be best playing with who. Nothing’s cast in stone until such time as we’ve had the practice rounds and see how everyone’s playing.
Golf is all about current form so it’s an ongoing process, but you try and anticipate a little bit so that you can stay ahead of some of the situations that may arise or be prepared for the situations that may arise. All sorts of strategy, but more than anything else I’m just so looking forward to spending a good week with 12 of the best young golfers in the world.
Ernie, obviously he and I go back a long way. Tim Clark I played a lot of golf with over the years. But the young guys, Jason Day, Louis Oosthuizen, Charl Schwartzel, Richard Sterne, Cabrera I played a little bit of golf with. It’s going to be fun spending time with those guys, the humor, and getting them loosened up to play at their very best.
Q. Let me throw a wild question at you. Depending on the course where the Presidents Cup would be played, could you ever see the day, given how well some of you guys play on this Champions Tour, that one of the older guys could make that team or would they even draw any consideration?
Price: I don’t know. There was a time when Hale Irwin, I mean, Hale Irwin played phenomenally well back in I want to say the late ‘90s, early 2000s, when he was winning seven, eight times every year out here. I played with him a couple of times when he came out from the regular TOUR and he could still play great. He’s 68 now. So I don’t think that’s out of the realm of possibility. Langer, Langer played exceptionally well. — golfworld
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