Dawn Coe-Jones, at 56, Canadian golf champion

TAMPA, Fla. — Dawn Coe-Jones, the Canadian Golf Hall of Famer who won three times on the LPGA Tour, died Saturday after an eight-month battle with cancer. She was 56.

Fellow former Canadian LPGA Tour player Gail Graham, Golf Canada and The Legends Tour said Saturday that Ms. Coe-Jones died at a hospice near her home in Tampa. She was diagnosed with bone cancer this year.

“Dawn was a great competitor and role model for over 25 years on the LPGA Tour,” Canadian Golf Hall of Famer Sandra Post said. “Her happy and positive attitude toward life will be missed by all that knew her.”

From Lake Cowichan, British Columbia, Ms. Coe-Jones played on the LPGA Tour from 1984 to 2008. She won more than $3.3 million and had 44 career top-10 finishes.

“Dawn touched so many people,” said Graham, who played alongside Ms. Coe-Jones at Lamar University and on the LPGA Tour. “She was always the one who worried about others.”

Ms. Coe-Jones won LPGA Tour’s 1992 Women’s Kemper Open, 1994 LPGA Palm Beach Classic and 1995 Tournament of Champions. She also won the 1983 Canadian Women’s Amateur.

“On behalf of the entire golf community we are deeply saddened by the passing of Dawn Coe-Jones,” Golf Canada CEO Scott Simmons said in a statement. “Dawn was a tenacious competitor, a mentor and friend to so many of her peers and a proud ambassador for Canadian golf throughout her distinguished career.”

Ms. Coe-Jones was inducted into the Canadian Golf Hall of Fame in 2003.

“I was totally caught off guard,” she said at the time. “In fact, I had to make sure someone wasn’t playing a trick on me. I am just thrilled and proud to be included in such good company.”