ZIMBABWE golf legend Nick Price has been forced to withdraw from the Nedbank Champions Challenge in South Africa because of an elbow injury.
Report by Daniel Nhakaniso Sports Reporter
The prestigious tournament widely considered as “Africa’s Major” will tee off today at the famous Gary Player Country Club at Sun City with eight champions in the senior field playing for a purse of $880 000 and a first prize of $250 000.
Price (55), a three-time Major champion and former World number one, was sidelined by the same injury for 15 weeks, early this year which saw him miss out on the US Senior Open in July.
He briefly returned to competitive action in August, making a return at the 3M Championship and a few tournaments on the Champions Tour, before he was sidelined again recently ahead of the tournament in South Africa.
According to a statement on the tournament, Price has been replaced by Scotland’s Sandy Lyle in the star-studded seniors’ field.
“Nick Price has had to withdraw from the Nedbank Champions Challenge because of an elbow injury. Scotland’s Sandy Lyle will take his place. Alexander Walter Barr Lyle, or “Sandy” as he is known to the world, will be making his fourth appearance in a Nedbank Golf Challenge field at Sun City, but his first as a member of the Nedbank Champions Challenge,” said the organisers in a statement on the tournament website.
Price had initially been expected to make a return to the South African golf circuit by returning to the tournament which he won a record three times during the peak of his career when he was a dominant force in world golf.
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His absence at this year’s tournament would certainly be strongly felt, as he was expected to be one of the crowd favourites at the event.
