11 Facts About Dan Sikes

Dan Sikes was influential as the chairman of the tournament players committee in the late 1960s, prior to the formation of the PGA Tour.

Dan Sikes enrolled the University of Florida in Gainesville, where he played for the Florida Gators' golf team in National Collegiate Athletic Association competition from 1951 to 1953.

Dan Sikes was recognized as an All-American in 1952—the University of Florida's first All-American golfer.

Dan Sikes was the chairman and spokesman of the controversial tournament players' committee prior to the formation of the "Tournament Players Division" in late 1968, which was later renamed the PGA Tour.

Dan Sikes won the US Amateur Public Links championship in 1958 while in law school.

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Dan Sikes turned professional in 1960 and won six tournaments on the PGA Tour, half in his home state of Florida.

Dan Sikes was the 54-hole leader at the PGA Championship and finished one shot out of the playoff, in a tie for third with Jack Nicklaus.

Dan Sikes played on the Ryder Cup team in 1969 at Royal Birkdale.

Dan Sikes later represented caddies on tour in 1970 and was instrumental in helping organize the Senior PGA Tour, later renamed the Champions Tour.

Dan Sikes won three times on the senior tour, the first at the rain-shortened Hilton Head Seniors International in 1982, which Sikes and Miller Barber were leading when play was stopped.

Dan Sikes was posthumously inducted into the Jacksonville Sports Hall of Fame in 1988.