Jim King, PGA TOUR and PGA TOUR Champions participant dies at age 86

Jim King, a PGA TOUR and PGA TOUR Champions player, died of brings about incident to COVID-19 on August 10 in Jupiter, Florida. King was 86.

King, born September 7, 1937 in Chicago, attended faculty at Western Illinois, where he performed both of those golf and was a linebacker on the football staff. Soon after finishing third at the Illinois Intercollegiate Athletic Meeting Golf Championship, he skilled for the 1957 NCAA Championship. Two yrs later, he was the IAAC medalist. On the soccer industry, the 1959 Leathernecks, under the route of upcoming NFL head mentor Lou Saban, went undefeated (9-), outscoring their opponents 303-104. Other foreseeable future NFL head coaches on the coaching staff were Pink Miller and Joe Collier. For his collegiate athletic good results, WIU inducted King into its Hall of Fame in 1987.

Whilst football was not in King’s future following graduation, golfing was. After turning pro, he manufactured periodic PGA TOUR commences, actively playing in 27 tournaments involving 1960 and 1963. He created his TOUR debut at the 1960 Yorba Linda Open up in California, tying for 60th. His ideal complete that season was a tie for 43rd in late-November, at the Mobile Sertoma Open in Alabama.  King joined the U.S. Army at the summary of the 1963 period, and he served in the military services for 3 many years, as a paratrooper. He returned to the TOUR for a person event in 1967—the Western Open—followed by his most prolific 12 months of engage in in 1968, when he performed in 13 tournaments, making a profession-significant 10 cuts.

That period, King loved his to start with top-10 when he tied for eighth at the Magnolia Common played reverse the Masters event in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. He had two extra top rated-10s, each coming in 1972—a tie for sixth at the Shreveport Traditional and a tie for 10th at the Buick Open. King would engage in off and on for the upcoming 15 several years whilst serving as a PGA expert at a variety of Florida golfing programs. His ultimate designed slice came at the 1983 PGA Championship at Riviera Nation Club in Pacific Palisades, California. He completed 87th.

King also courted controversy through his profession, the PGA TOUR suspending him from the USI Common in Sutton, Massachusetts. Through the 2nd round at Pleasurable Valley Country Club, King allegedly grabbed guidelines official Pete Sesso by the throat immediately after Sesso had warned King of sluggish enjoy and began timing him. Event Director Jack Tuthill, a PGA TOUR personnel, disqualified King immediately after the incident that took place in the vicinity of the 16th green, and Tuthill suspended King from playing “until more observe.”

King did not engage in in four tournaments next the USI Vintage and returned to motion in late-September, at the B.C. Open, where he tied for 35th.

When King wasn’t enjoying in PGA TOUR tournaments, he was active in point out opens and competing on the TOUR’s satellite Tour.

King was a two-time winner of the Florida Open up, in 1971 when he was the head professional at President Region Club in Boynton Seashore, and again in 1976 immediately after he had recognized the teaching-specialist place at Pompano Beach’s Palm-Aire Place Club.

King turned 50 in 1984 and played 12 PGA TOUR Champions tournaments in 1984 and 1985. His to start with event was the 1984 Digital Middlesex Traditional that resulted in a tie for 13th at Nashawtuc Nation Club in Massachusetts. He extra a tie for 14th at the Suntree Typical and a tie-for-13th end at the Senior PGA Championship. He joined PGA TOUR Champions complete time in 1986, putting up one of two third-place finishes he would enjoy on the senior circuit. King shared third area with Charles Owens at PGA National Golf Club in Palm Beach, Florida, earning $15,250. He would get paid his biggest paycheck a 12 months later on when he finished solo third at the Higher Grand Rapids Open up in Michigan, an hard work truly worth $17,800. King completed 22nd on the dollars listing that yr, his very best overall performance. He ended his job with 130 overall appearances, his last event the 2001 U.S. Senior Open up.

King is survived by his daughter, Maria Ribeiro (Artur) and two grandchildren.

Funeral providers will be August 22 at the Aycock-Riverside Funeral Residence in Jupiter.