Tim Price, 1950-2010 | Golf News and Tour Information [Video]

Tim Price didn’t achieve the worldwide fame of his younger brother, Nick, whom he coached in the Hall of Famer’s formative years. But he was a well-known golf fixture in Zimbabwe and the rest of southern Africa as a player (representing Zimbabwe in the World Cup of Golf in 1982, 1988 and 1992), instructor (from tour players to juniors) and administrator (founding the Zimbabwe Open and managing his home country’s tour).

In recent years Tim Price, 60, who died Oct. 28 in Harare, Zimbabwe, after battling cancer for six months, was best known and admired for his tenacity in trying to keep golf alive in his home country even while it deteriorated under the rule of Robert Mugabe. “My commitment has been to soldier on, but, boy is it tough,” Price wrote in an e-mail late in 2008, when asked to appraise life in Zimbabwe. “… As much as we …