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)

[edit] Champions Tour wins (20)

Senior major championship is shown in bold.

[edit] Other senior wins

[edit] See also

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