CHEROKEE VILLAGE, Ark.—Tommy Bolt, the 1958 U.S. Open champion who had one of golf’s sweetest swings and most explosive tempers, has died. He was 92.

His wife, Mary Lou Bolt, said he died Saturday after “his liver shut down.”

“He was the best man I ever knew,” she said Wednesday.

Bolt won 15 times on the PGA Tour, with his lone major at Southern Hills in the 1958 by four shots over Gary Player. He was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2002, which he called the highlight of his career.

Survivors include a son, Thomas Walker Bolt.