Best of the Players Championship: The 25 Most Dominant Performances
By Bill Felber
The 1992 PGA Champion, Price was at the apex of his game in March of 1993. Within the year he would ascend to the No. 1 spot in the World Golf rankings. So his victory, by five strokes over Bernhard Langer, hardly came as a surprise.
From the opening round Price made it clear he was the man to beat. His 64 left him tied for first with Kirk Triplett, and a Friday 68 left him two in front of Langer and two others. Langer, along with Greg Norman and Mark O’Meara still lurked within a stroke through three rounds. But Price buried them all with a 67 Sunday to finish 5 ahead of Langer.
The only one unimpressed was Price, who made it sound as though he’d lucked into the trophy.
“The pressure this week was unbelievable,” he said. “Sometimes I’m my own worst enemy.”
If Price felt any real pressure, it came at the fourth hole on Sunday, when he drove into the bank of a bunker close to 100 yards from the green.”I was looking at double bogey,” he said. But improvising a stance that placed his left foot well above the ball, he fired a wedge within two feet of the flag and turned that double into a birdie. Game-set-match.