Jim Dent, a pioneer black golfer who won 12 times by PGA Tour Champions, died on Friday at the age of 85.
PGA Tour website, domestic Augusta, GA.
“Many people will remember how much they hit Jim Dent on the ball and really did. Still long -term success, especially in our tour, Jim proved that Jim is longer than Tee,” PGA Tour Champions President Miller Brady. He said. “Jim was as easy as competitive, and as a PGA Tour Champions player, he added too many during his time. We offer his whole family sincere condolences.”
Dent worked as a young caddying at the Augusta Municipality Golf Field, known for “The Patch”. He also worked at Augusta National Golf Club, but during the adult years, he never appears to be less than 22 in the tournament, PGA Tour is never qualified as a player for Masters in 16 consecutive campaigns.
Dent, who was a professional return in 1966 and starting from 1971, made a deduction in 296 of the 450 rounds of events, including 25 first 10 finishes, and earned official money in a different age for tournament wallets.
Once upon a time, Jack Nicklaus'a 1972 Walt Disney World Open Invitational on the second round of Dent's second round. Dent made six of 11 main branches (six in the PGA Championship, in five US Open).
Dent, which was the world's long -driving champion in 1974 and 1975, won the Florida PGA championship for three years, and in 1983, Chattanooga won the PGA Tour's tournament player series in Tenn.
Dent was successfully passed to Senior Tour in 1989 and 535 out of 545 sections. He earned over $ 9 million.
12 The first of the victory is 1989 MONY Syracuse Senior Classic-Greater Al Geiberger after losing a shot, “Jim Dent, the way to hit the ball should be illegal.”
Dent won the Newport Cup in the same year. His last victory in his senior tour was the 1997 Home Depot Invitational in Quail Hollow.
He entered the Caddy Honor List and African-American Golfers Honor List. The road to “patch” was re -named as Jim Dent Way. His son Jim Dent Jr., there is a professional head golf.
Augusta National plans to continue the renewal of the “Patch”, including the redesign of the main 18-hole course and the new, nine-hole, Par-3 course, through partnership with Tiger Woods's design company TGR.
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