Former PGA TOUR and PGA TOUR Champions golfer Mike Hill has died, according to pgatour.com. He was 86 years old.
Hill died on Monday at the University of Michigan hospital, the website reports.
Born in Jackson, Michigan, Mike Hill earned three victories during his time on the PGA TOUR, capturing the Doral-Eastern Open in Miami, the Valero Texas Open and the Ohio Kings Island Open.
He went on to star on the PGA TOUR Champions, beginning when he joined the tour in 1989. During his second full season with PGA TOUR Champions, Hill won five tournaments and was the leading money winner in all of professional golf, bringing in $1,065,557 that year.
Mike Hill’s older brother, Dave Hill, also starred on the PGA TOUR, winning 13 times.
Mike Hill played golf at Arizona State, before joining the Air Force. He also spent five years driving a beer manufacturer’s truck, before joining the PGA TOUR in 1968 at age 31.
Hill finished his playing career with 18 wins on the PGA TOUR Champions. He also accumulated more than $8 million in earnings while on the tour.
“Mike Hill was one of the players who made the PGA TOUR Champions so popular in the early 1990s as his name was seemingly on every leaderboard at a time he made winning a regular part of his game,” Miller Brady, PGA TOUR Champions president, said in a statement. “We are saddened by Mike’s death, and we extend our condolences to his family while we look back fondly on his career.”
Hill’s final PGA TOUR Champions event came in 2007 at the Commerce Bank Championship in New York when he tied for 21st, while 70 years old.
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