Jim Colbert, 8-time PGA Tour winner known for bucket hat, dies

Jim Colbertfamend for sporting his bucket hat whereas successful eight instances on the PGA Tour and 20 instances on the Champions tour, has died, the PGA Tour introduced. He was 85.

Colbert died Sunday. The tour didn’t establish a reason for dying.

Colbert was a youngster enjoying a match in Kansas when he almost collapsed from sunstroke, main docs to insist he begin sporting a hat to guard himself. He selected a bucket hat, which grew to become his trademark throughout his PGA Tour profession.

Born in New Jersey, Colbert went to Kansas State on a soccer scholarship. He turned all his consideration to golf after an harm and was runner-up within the NCAA championship in 1964. Two years later, he was on the PGA Tour.

He received the primary of his eight PGA Tour titles within the 1969 Monsanto Invitational Open. He had a pair of high 5s within the majors in 1974, a tie for fourth within the Masters and a tie for fifth within the US Open at Winged Foot.

His greatest season on the PGA Tour was in 1983 when he received twice and was fifteenth on the cash checklist.

Colbert was identified with prostate most cancers in 1996, had surgical procedure to take away his prostate and was again on the course two years later, successful The Transamerica.

He was additionally energetic in enterprise. According to the PGA Tour, he purchased his first golf course in Las Vegas in 1980. Jim Colbert Golf grew to personal 23 golf programs, had 700 workers and gross income of $50 million.

Colbert, who lived the latter a part of his life in Las Vegas, stored ties to Kansas State. The males’s and girls’s golf groups play at Colbert Hills Golf Club in Manhattan, Kansas, which he helped design and opened in 2000.

Colbert was inducted into the Kansas State Athletic Hall of Fame in 1991, the Kansas Sports Hall of Fame in 1998 and the Las Vegas Golf Hall of Fame in 2019.