| Jim Colbert | |||||||||
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| Personal information | |||||||||
| Full name | James Joseph Colbert | ||||||||
| Born | March 9, 1941 Elizabeth, New Jersey, U.S.[1] | ||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) | ||||||||
| Weight | 175 lb (79 kg; 12.5 st) | ||||||||
| Sporting nationality |  United States | ||||||||
| Residence | Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.[1] | ||||||||
| Career | |||||||||
| College | Kansas State University | ||||||||
| Turned professional | 1965 | ||||||||
| Current tour(s) | Champions Tour | ||||||||
| Former tour(s) | PGA Tour | ||||||||
| Professional wins | 35 | ||||||||
| Number of wins by tour | |||||||||
| PGA Tour | 8 | ||||||||
| PGA Tour Champions | 20 (Tied-10th all-time) | ||||||||
| Other | 6 (regular) 1 (senior) | ||||||||
| Best results in major championships | |||||||||
| Masters Tournament | T4: 1974 | ||||||||
| PGA Championship | T12: 1973 | ||||||||
| U.S. Open | T3: 1971 | ||||||||
| The Open Championship | CUT: 1984 | ||||||||
| Achievements and awards | |||||||||
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James Joseph Colbert (born March 9, 1941) is an American professional golfer.
Colbert was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey.[1] He attended Kansas State University,[1] 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 Pahrump, Nevada.[2] He also helped design a golf course in Manhattan, Kansas, named Colbert Hills, which was ranked by Golfweek as the best public course in Kansas,[3] and by Golf Digest as the eighth-best course overall in the state.[4]
Colbert was inducted into the Kansas Sports Hall of Fame in 1998.
- ^ a b c d "PGA Tour profile". Archived from the original on April 23, 2012. Retrieved April 27, 2012.
- ^ "Colbert Golf". Archived from the original on July 18, 2013. Retrieved April 27, 2012.
- ^ "Golfweek's Best: State by State Public-access Courses". Golfweek. Archived from the original on February 10, 2007.
- ^ "Kansas: Best In State Rankings". Golf Digest. Archived from the original on November 9, 2013. Retrieved November 8, 2013.