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Jim Colbert, a PGA Tour winner and Kansas State golf alum, dies at 85
MANHATTAN — Jim Colbert, an eight-time PGA Tour winner and one of the more recognizable names to come through Kansas State, died on May 10. He was 85.
Colbert attended Kansas State on a football scholarship but turned his attention to the links after an injury on the gridiron. He was the runner-up at the 1964 NCAA Championship, the same year he graduated.
A Kansas City native, Colbert turned pro in 1965, joined the Tour one year later and claimed his first victory at the 1969 Monsanto Open. He won two of his eight titles in 1983, finishing 15th on the money list, a career best.
Colbert was a member of the Tour policy board during a critical time in 1983 and famously sounded a warning to then-Commissioner Deane Beman that some of the game's leading players, including Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer, were attempting a coup. Thanks to Colbert's efforts, Beman survived, and his contract was re-upped a year later, and he spent more than another decade in office, turning the Tour into a financial success.
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Jim Colbert was an eight-time PGA Tour winner and the runner-up at the 1964 NCAA Championship.
Jim Colbert died on May 10 at the age of 85.
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Jim Colbert's first PGA Tour victory was at the 1969 Monsanto Open.

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New Kansas State basketball coach Casey Alexander
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New Kansas State basketball coach Casey Alexander
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Casey Alexander has also landed incoming freshmen Devin Hutcherson and Jaylen Alexander.
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Sean Rutigliano (standing) is Casey Alexander's general manager.
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Wes Long (right) is Kansas State's new "chief of staff"
Colbert left the Tour as a player in 1987 due to a brittle back, and bet on himself in Las Vegas, buying his first course in 1980 and launching a successful golf course management company, Jim Colbert Golf, which operated as many as 23 courses, according to the PGA Tour. He also became a golf analyst at ESPN from 1987-1990.
Colbert helped design Colbert Hills in Manhattan, which opened in 2000 and is ranked by Golfweek as the best public course in Kansas. The course is home to the Wildcats men's and women's teams.
Colbert kept his game sharp and in 1991, at 50, enjoyed the most fruitful years of his career as a player, winning 20 times. He was named Rookie of the Year on the 50-and-over circuit in 1991 and won a senior major in 1993, the Senior Players Championship. Sporting his trademark bucket hat and with his collar always turned up, Colbert topped the money list in 1995 and 1996, winning Player of the Year in both years. After an injury-riddled 1997, he was named Senior Tour Comeback Player of the Year.
Colbert was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, on March 9, 1941, but his family moved to Kansas City in 1952. He married his high school sweetheart, Marcia, and they lived there until 1974. In more recent years, they split time between Las Vegas and Palm Desert, California.
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Wyatt D. Wheeler covers Kansas State athletics for the USA TODAY Network and Topeka Capital-Journal. You can follow him on X at @WyattWheeler_, contact him at 417-371-6987 or email him at wwheeler@usatodayco.com
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