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Jim Colbert, an eight-time PGA Tour winner and former two-time Player of the Year on PGA Tour Champions, 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.

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 a career-best 15th on the money list.

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 leading players in the game, 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 spent more than another decade in office turning the Tour into a financial success.