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Jim Colbert  |
EXEMPT STATUS: Top 31 on All-Time Money List FULL NAME: Jim Colbert HEIGHT: 5-9 WEIGHT: 175 BIRTHDATE: March 9, 1941 BIRTHPLACE: Elizabeth, NJ RESIDENCE: Las Vegas, NV FAMILY: Wife, Marcia; Debbie (9/25/59); Christy (11/24/61); Kelly (7/19/65); six grandchildren EDUCATION: Kansas State University (1964, Political Science) TURNED PROFESSIONAL: 1965 JOINED TOUR: 1991 |
| PGA TOUR Victories |
| (8) 1969 Monsanto Open Invitational. 1972 Greater Milwaukee Open. 1973 Greater Jacksonville Open. 1974 American Golf Classic. 1975 Walt Disney World National Team Championship. 1980 Joe Garagiola-Tucson Open. 1983 Colonial National Invitation Tournament, Texas Open. |
| Champions Tour Victories |
| (20) 1991 Southwestern Bell Classic, Vantage Championship, First Development Kaanapali Classic. 1992 GTE Suncoast Classic, Vantage Championship. 1993 Royal Caribbean Classic, FORD SENIOR PLAYERS Championship. 1994 Kroger Senior Classic, Southwestern Bell Classic. 1995 Senior Tournament of Champions, Las Vegas Senior Classic, Bell Atlantic Classic, Energizer SENIOR TOUR Championship. 1996 Toshiba Senior Classic, Las Vegas Senior Classic, Nationwide Championship, Vantage Championship, Raley's Gold Rush Classic. 1998 The Transamerica. 2001 SBC Senior Classic. |
| International Victories |
| 1995 Diners Club Matches (with Bob Murphy). 1996 Diners Club Matches (with Bob Murphy). 1998 Lexus Challenge (with Kevin Costner). 2000 Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf (with Andy North). 2001 Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf (with Andy North). |
| Other Victories |
| 1987 Jerry Ford Invitational. |
| Current Year Charles Schwab Cup Points and Positions |
| 92 (41) |
| Current Year Champions Tour Money and Positions |
| $233,497 (36) |
| Current Year Best Champions Tour Finishes |
| T3--Bruno's Memorial Classic |
| Current Year Champions Tour Best Round |
| 67 at Round 2, MasterCard Championship, at Round 2, Bruno's Memorial Classic, at Round 2, Kinko's Classic of Austin, at Round 2, Columbus Southern Open |
| Current Year Champions Tour Highlights |
| Had his best performance in almost two years when he T3, along with Hale Irwin, at the Bruno's Memorial Classic in Birmingham...Followed Hugh Baiocchi's ace, with a hole-in-one of his own in the final round of the Royal Caribbean Golf Classic. Aced the 178-yard 12th hole with a 6-iron shot, the seventh ace in tournament history. |
| Best PGA TOUR Finishes |
| 1--1969 Monsanto Open Invitational. 1972 Greater Milwaukee Open. 1973 Greater Jacksonville Open. 1974 American Golf Classic. 1975 Walt Disney World National Team Championship. 1980 Joe Garagiola-Tucson Open. 1983 Colonial National Invitation Tournament, Texas Open. |
| Best Champions Tour Finishes |
| 1--1991 Southwestern Bell Classic, Vantage Championship, First Development Kaanapali Classic. 1992 GTE Suncoast Classic, Vantage Championship. 1993 Royal Caribbean Classic, FORD SENIOR PLAYERS Championship. 1994 Kroger Senior Classic, Southwestern Bell Classic. 1995 Senior Tournament of Champions, Las Vegas Senior Classic, Bell Atlantic Classic, Energizer SENIOR TOUR Championship. 1996 Toshiba Senior Classic, Las Vegas Senior Classic, Nationwide Championship, Vantage Championship, Raley's Gold Rush Classic. 1998 The Transamerica. 2001 SBC Senior Classic. |
| Best 2002 Champions Tour Finishes |
| T16--MasterCard Championship |
| 2002 Season Champions Tour |
| Tournaments Entered--31; in money--31; Top 10 finishes--0 |
| 2002 Season Highlights |
| Best finish in 31 starts was a T16 in the year's first event at the MasterCard Championship in Hawaii...Also T18 at the Kroger Senior Classic where he fashioned three consecutive sub-70 rounds...Finished sixth on the Georgia-Pacific Grand Champions money list with $223,258...Posted back-to-back Georgia-Pacific Grand Champions titles when he defeated Isao Aoki in one-hole playoffs at the Kroger Senior Classic and the SAS Championship. |
| Career Highlights |
| 2001: Oldest winner on the Champions Tour, finishing among the top 31 money-winners for an 11th straight year, the only Super Senior among that select group...Ended more than a two-year victory drought two days after turning 60 when he held off Jose Maria Canizares by one stroke for the SBC Senior Classic title, his 20th career victory on the Champions Tour. Tied with Larry Nelson for the lead entering the final round and holed an eight-foot birdie putt at the 15th hole to break out of a three-way tie with Canizares and Gary McCord. Became the first player since Mike Hill (1990) to win the event with a round in the 70s and his 12-under total was the same in relation to par as that of Billy Mayfair, the 1998 Nissan Open winner at Valencia on the PGA TOUR. Win also made him the 10th player in Champions Tour history to win after turning 60...Teamed with Andy North to successfully defend their Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf title, the fifth time in tournament history a team had gone back to back. The pair's better-ball score of 20-under 124 in the rain-shortened event clipped Bruce Fleisher and David Graham by three strokes...Played in 12 Georgia-Pacific Grand Champions events and won five times, including the first two over-60 competitions he was eligible for (Bruno's Memorial Classic/The Home Depot Invitational). 2000: Teamed with Andy North for victory in the Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf...Duo fired a better-ball team score of 25-under 191 and edged David Graham and Bruce Fleisher by one stroke...T2 at the Audi Senior Classic, five strokes back of Hubert Green after sharing the 36-hole lead with Jose Maria Canizares...Tied his Champions Tour career-low round of 61 on the first day of the TD Waterhouse Championship. Course record 11-under-par score at Tiffany Greens included eight straight birdies (holes 10-17) and equalled the Champions Tour's all-time best birdie streak (Chi Chi Rodriguez--1987 Silver Pages Classic). Led by two strokes after 36 holes, but finished third after a final-round 71...Opened Colbert Hills Golf Club at Kansas State University in Manhattan on May 1. 1999: Closed with 67 at Hualalai to T2 at the MasterCard Championship, three strokes back of John Jacobs. 1998: Notched his 19th career victory on the Champions Tour by claiming The Transamerica...Birdied four of his last eight holes for a one-stroke win over David Lundstrom in Napa...Victory capped a successful comeback from prostate cancer surgery a year earlier...Also fell in a three-way playoff (with Larry Nelson) to Bob Dickson at the Cadillac NFL Golf Classic...Was solo second to Dana Quigley at the Emerald Coast Classic as well...Named the Champions Tour's Comeback Player of the Year and is the only player to have garnered all three of the Champions Tour's major post-season awards. 1997: Despite missing four months of the season while recuperating from prostate cancer surgery on June 23, still finished among the top-31 money-winners...Did not win for the first time in six years, but still had five top-five finishes, including a pair of seconds at the du Maurier Champions and the American Express Invitational...Went over $7 million in Champions Tour career money when he collected $96,800 for his T2 at the du Maurier Champions...Recorded his third hole-in-one on the Champions Tour and his fifth overall at the Bruno's Memorial Classic. 1996: Won second Arnold Palmer Award as the leading money-winner with then-record $1,627,890...Earned title on last day of season when he birdied the final hole at the Energizer SENIOR TOUR Championship to help him to a T3 and a check for $121,000, good enough to beat Hale Irwin by $12,121 for the money crown...Won $607,495 in his last seven starts, including two wins, a second, a tie for second and a tie for third...Voted by his peers as Champions Tour Player of the Year for second year in succession...Had personal-best five wins...Highlights were defense of his title at the Las Vegas Senior Classic and a third Vantage Championship...Also named Player of the Month for October...Claimed Cadillac with hole-in-one at The Transamerica...Golf Writers Association Player of the Year. 1995: Four victories included wire-to-wire victory at the Energizer SENIOR TOUR Championship...Win helped him earn largest check of his career, $262,000, and also helped him to his first money title...Started the year with playoff triumph over Jim Albus in Puerto Rico at the Senior Tournament of Champions...Voted by his peers as the Player of the Year and also was named Player of the Year by the Golf Writers Association of America. 1994: One of a then-record six Champions Tour players to win at least $1 million...July's Player of the Month after 30-day stretch that saw him post two wins and nine straight sub-70 rounds...Shot the then-lowest 36-hole number in Champions Tour history (126) at the GTE West Classic in Ojai, CA, but lost in a playoff to Jay Sigel. 1993: Won year's first full-field event at the Royal Caribbean Classic, thanks in part to two of the best back-to-back rounds of the year -- 65-64 in the first two days of the competition...Held off Raymond Floyd for win at FORD SENIOR PLAYERS Championship, his only senior major championship. 1992: Became first player to capture second consecutive Vantage Championship...Also defeated George Archer in playoff for win at GTE Classic. 1991: Garnered Rookie of the Year honors after winning $880,749 and finishing third on money list...Had three wins and was second five times...First senior win came in his hometown of Kansas City at Southwestern Bell Classic...Matched Lee Elder's record at the time for lowest 18-hole score when he fired second round 9-under 61 at First Development Kaanapali Classic and then claimed title by two the next day. |
| Personal |
| Ran his own golf course management company, Jim Colbert Golf, prior to joining the Champions Tour...Spent several years as a color analyst for ESPN golf telecasts...Made his home in Kansas City from 1952-74 and earned a football scholarship to Kansas State...A close friend of K-State football coach Bill Snyder and a big supporter of the school's sports program...Played a large role in helping the school build its new golf course (Colbert Hills GC) that is the home of the men's and women's teams, the First Tee National Academy and will house a First Tee facility...Had a limited career on the gridiron and turned to golf instead...Owes some recent on-course success to a magnetic belt he wears to improve circulation in his back. |
| PGA TOUR Playoff Record |
| 2-0 |
| Champions Tour Playoff Record |
| 3-5 |
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