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Dicky Pride

Golf is an outdoor sport where player as an individual or from varied teams strike a ball targeting a hole using various clubs. The game basically originated from Scotland and has been played for at least five centuries in the British Isles. The two basic forms of playing golf are match play and stroke play. PGA stands for Professional Golfers' Association Tour. The PGA Tour is an organization headquartered in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, USA that operates the USA's main professional golf tours. The PGA Tour since 1968 has been completely separated from the Professional Golfers' Association of America, PGA of America, which is now primarily an association of club professionals.

Dicky Pride was born on 15th July 1969 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. With a height of 6 feet and weighing 175 pounds, he turned Professional in the year 1992. His PGA Tour victory includes 1994 Federal Express St. Jude Classic. It was his first top-10 since a T5 at the 2004 Michelin Championship at Las Vegas.

He played in 23 PGA Tour events and made 14 cuts and finished in the top 20 six times. He held the first-round lead at the Chrysler Classic of Tucson and finished T34. It was just the second time in his career that he led in a Tour event. The other time came at the 1994 Federal Express St. Jude Classic, his only PGA Tour victory. The last time he led after a round on Tour was the second round of the 2001 Bell Canadian Open. He secured first top-10 finish since 2001 Southern Farm Bureau Classic with a T10 at the Reno-Tahoe Open, a span of 28 events between top 10s.

He is one of the best known golf players in the history of the game. A unique style of game strategy and excellent judgment is what makes this great player one of the best all time golf players. Sheer determination, concentration and self confidence has helped him through out his professional career of playing golf to achieve what other players can only imagine of.

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