Editing Doug Sanders (section)

==Amateur career==
Sanders accepted an athletic scholarship to the [[University of Florida]] in [[Gainesville, Florida|Gainesville]],<ref name=sijan62/> where he played for the [[Florida Gators men's golf|Gators golf]] team in [[National Collegiate Athletic Association]] (NCAA) competition in 1955.<ref name=ufmediasupplement>{{cite web |url=http://www.gatorzone.com/golf/men/media/2012/supplement.pdf |title=Florida Men's Golf 2013 Media Supplement |publisher=University Athletic Association |location=Gainesville, Florida |pages=36–37 |access-date=December 24, 2013}}</ref>  In his single year as a Gator golfer, Sanders and the team won a [[Southeastern Conference]] (SEC) championship and earned a sixth-place finish at the NCAA championship tournament—the Gators' best national championship finish at that time.<ref name=ufmediasupplement/> Sanders won the 1956 [[Canadian Open (golf)|Canadian Open]] as an amateur—the only amateur ever to do so—and turned professional shortly thereafter.<ref name=gshofprofile>{{cite web |publisher=Georgia Sports Hall of Fame |url=http://www.gshf.org/pdf_files/inductees/golf/doug_sanders.pdf |title=Inductees – Doug Sanders |access-date=July 19, 2011 |archive-date=July 19, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719014458/http://www.gshf.org/pdf_files/inductees/golf/doug_sanders.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> Sanders was the last amateur to win on the PGA Tour until [[Scott Verplank]] in 1985.