Gym dent, a leading Black Golfer, one of the longest hits of the PGA Tour and now the 12 -time winner on the PGA Tour Champions, died at the age of 85 on Friday.
The PGA Tour said on its website that the dent, which is its original Augusta, Ga. In a week before his birthday, he was recovering from the effects of a stroke.
Miller Brady, president of the PGA Tour Champions, said, “Many people will remember the gym dent how far he hit the ball, and he really did. Yet his long -term success, especially on our tour, proved that the gym was longer than the long.” “The gym was as easy as he was competitive, and he added a lot during his time as a PGA Tour Champions player. We provide our honest condolences to our entire family.”
Dent worked as a teenager in Augusta Municipal Golf Course, known in “The Patch”. He also worked at the Augusta National Golf Club, but was not as a player for masters in 16 consecutive campaigns on PGA Tour over his adult years, when he never appeared in less than 22 tournaments in a season.
Qualifying for Pro Turning in 1966 and PGA Tour starting in 1971, Dent cut 296 out of 450 tour events including 25 top -10 finish, and earned $ 565,809 in official funds in a separate era for tournament purse.
He was once a runner-up, inviting Jack Nicolas in the second year of dent on the tour of the 1972 Walt Disney World Open Invitational. Dent cut six out of 11 big companies, which he played (six in the PGA Championship, five in the US Open).
In 1974 and 1975, the World Long Driving Champion, Dent, also won the Florida PGA Championship with the three straight year starting in 1983, with the three straight year starting in 1983, PGA Tour tournament player series event in 1983.
Dent successfully infection in a senior tour of 50 and above in 1989, with 131 top -10 finish and 535 545 cuts. He earned more than $ 9 million in official money.
His 12 wins were the 1989 Moni Syracuse Senior Classic-after losing to a shot, Runner-up Al Gabbergar joked, “For Jim Dent (for) the way he can hit the ball.”
Dent won the same year in Newport Cup. His last victory on the senior tour was the home depot invitted in Qual Holll in 1997.
He was included in the Caddy Hall of Fame and African-American Golfers Hall of Fame. The road to the “The Patch” was renamed as the gym dent. His son, gym dent junior, there are Head Golf Pro.
Augusta National plans to continue the renovation of “The Patch”, including a new form of the main 18-hollow courses and a new, nine, par-3 course through partnership with Tiger Woods Design Company, TGR.
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