Jim Colbert
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James Joseph Colbert (born March 9, 1941) is an American golfer. He was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey. He attended Kansas State University, where he finished second in the NCAA golf championships in 1964, before graduating and turning professional in 1965.
Colbert won eight times on the PGA Tour, including twice in 1983 when he finished a career best fifteenth on the money list. As a senior Colbert has won 20 tournaments on the Champions Tour, including a Senior major championship, the 1993 Senior Players Championship.
Colbert has worked as a golf analyst for ESPN and has his own golf course management company based in Las Vegas. He also helped design a golf course in Manhattan, Kansas, named Colbert Hills, which is annually ranked by Golf Digest among the top ten courses in the state and is home to the Earl Woods National Youth Golf Academy. Colbert was inducted into the Kansas Sports Hall of Fame in 1998.
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[edit] PGA Tour wins (8)
- 1969 (1) Monsanto Open Invitational
- 1972 (1) Greater Milwaukee Open
- 1973 (1) Greater Jacksonville Open
- 1974 (1) American Golf Classic
- 1975 (1) Walt Disney World National Team Championship (with Dean Refram)
- 1980 (1) Joe Garagiola-Tucson Open
- 1983 (2) Colonial National Invitation, Texas Open
[edit] Champions Tour wins (20)
- 1991 (3) Vantage Championship, Southwestern Bell Classic, First Development Kaanapali Classic
- 1992 (2) Vantage Championship, GTE Suncoast Classic
- 1993 (2) Royal Caribbean Classic, Senior Players Championship
- 1994 (2) Southwestern Bell Classic, Kroger Senior Classic
- 1995 (4) Energizer Senior Tour Championship, Senior Tournament of Champions, Bell Atlantic Classic, TPC At Summerlin
- 1996 (5) Riley's Gold Rush Classic, TPC At Summerlin, Vantage Championship, Nationwide Championship, Toshiba Senior Classic
- 1998 (1) The Transamerica
- 2001 (1) SBC Senior Classic
Senior major championship is shown in bold.
