He died on May 2, according to his family. It was 85.
He was born on May 9, 1939, in Augusta, Georgia, Dent grew up in the National Augusta, Master’s home, and the near rural Augusta Club. In Master in 1956, the Bob Roseburg Dennah, who won a 1959 PGA victory and became known as a TV commentator after his playing days. Denn recalls, “We shot 41 in the ninth background, or maybe we won,” Dent recalled.
When he was a child, the father, Tom, led a truck to Bououd, and owned the tested agricultural lands that are not far from the Rural Club of Ugusta. The fourth of the six children, the function of a dent on the farm was the burning of fire in the morning.
“I was big enough to do this,” Dent told USGA. “I was still a real young man when my parents died, but there was my aunt. Her name was Mary Benton, a great lady in my life.”
Dent’s mother, Carrie, died when he was six years old. His father died when Jim was twelve years old. Benton, a housekeeper in one of the large homes of Augusta, raised Jim and three of his siblings with a firm hand.
“The first time I wandered, I got the Whupin,” the USA Today told me in 1990. “You (my aunt) told me about this. She said if I stuck with Caddies, I will learn how to gamble and drink. As you know, many of these men had these brown paper bags in their back pockets.
“But you know how it is. If you tell your mother not to cross the street, not going to a specific place, if you are an adventurous child, sooner or later, you will go there.”
In another narration of this story, he added: “The second thing I learned how to do when I learned how to shoot Caddy shot on paper.
For Dent, each episode was a chance to study elite players closely and apply their techniques to its own swing. By the time he was 15 years old, Dent began to excel in this sport. He and his comrades were sneaking on the back of Augusta, late in the afternoon and playing until the dark. Later, he will be allowed to play there on Friday morning for the pieces of crabs from the vegetables.
“There was also the Golf Ogusta municipal stadium, where we could play,” Dent recalled. “
Dent stood 6-3, 225 pounds, and it was a talented talented end. He enrolled in Payne, a small Methodist school in Augusta, in a football scholarship, although it was not long ago. A year later, the desire to play the golf game to Atlantic City, where he made his end meet in local clubs and a sandal.
Dent said: “I played every day until 3 or 3:30, because I did not have to work until 4:30 (in the evening).” “I was young at that time, I never tired.”
He is tired of that life. He says: “I felt that I was in prison, working from the inside and looking at the window.” “I wanted to work abroad. I was lucky. I met a man, Mu Stevens, who gave me a job in Los Angeles. Every morning, we were going to the football field in Compton and hit the balls until the school started.”
Dent cut his teeth in the events hosted by the Golf United Association, a tour that attracted the best black golf players from all over the country before the tour was integrated. He turned into professionals in 1966. Dent won three times in small rounds, including the Queen Mary event worth $ 100,000. He failed in school qualifiers four times before achieving it in 1970 at the age of 31. Only once ($ 55.095 in 1982) won more than $ 50,000 or finished among the 60 best money winners.
“In his career on the PGA tour, one was known for one thing, and one thing alone: golf ball,” Jeff Williams wrote in New Zday. “No one came to see Jim Dent Bot. No one came to see Jim Dent.
Dent was hung for more than 16 years without winning while he got more than $ 560,000.
He once said: “To play with these men now, you don’t think this is a great excitement?” He once said.
Despite facing racist barriers that limit opportunities for black golf players during his early career, Dent said he is facing little discrimination in the tour.
He said: “You know, I have never faced any problems because Charlie Seenford, Beit Brown and Lender, these men are just the cradle of the road.” Brown was the first black golf player to win an event that was canceled in the 1964 Wako Turner tournament, who took a dent under his wing.
Dent told “Dent” Ugusta Cronic. “This was a blessing. Here was a man who was already created and could allow me to roam and learn some ropes there.”
Dent was born again at the age of fifty when he became eligible for the Champions round, winning 12 championships between 1989 and 1998. He finished in the top ten in the list of money that lasted seven times on the higher circle, and won more than 9 million dollars.
“I did not work on what it takes to overcome at that time,” Dent said. “Cut, put, patience. These are the greatest things.”
In 2020, the road leading to the Augusta Municipal Golf Stadium, also known as “Correction“Jim Dent Way was renamed in his honor. Dent was also introduced in the Caddy Hall in 2022 as well as an African Golf Hall.
