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Raymond Floyd  |
EXEMPT STATUS: Top 31 on All-Time Money List FULL NAME: Ray Floyd HEIGHT: 6-1 WEIGHT: 200 BIRTHDATE: September 4, 1942 BIRTHPLACE: Fort Bragg, NC RESIDENCE: Palm Beach, FL FAMILY: Wife, Maria; Raymond, Jr. (9/20/74), Robert Loran (1/23/76), Christina Loran (8/29/79) EDUCATION: University of North Carolina SPECIAL INTERESTS: Sports, golf course design TURNED PROFESSIONAL: 1961 JOINED TOUR: 1992 |
| PGA TOUR Victories |
| (22) 1963 St. Petersburg Open Invitational. 1965 St. Paul Open Invitational. 1969 Greater Jacksonville Open, American Golf Classic, PGA Championship. 1975 Kemper Open. 1976 Masters Tournament, World Open Golf Championship. 1977 Byron Nelson Golf Classic, Pleasant Valley Classic. 1979 Greater Greensboro Open. 1980 Doral-Eastern Open. 1981 Doral-Eastern Open, Tournament Players Championship, Manufacturers Hanover Westchester Classic. 1982 Memorial Tournament, Danny Thomas Memphis Classic, PGA Championship. 1985 Houston Open. 1986 U.S. Open Championship, Walt Disney World/Oldsmobile Classic. 1992 Doral-Ryder Open. |
| Champions Tour Victories |
| (14) 1992 GTE North Classic, Ralphs Senior Classic, SENIOR TOUR Championship. 1993 Gulfstream Aerospace Invitational, Northville Long Island Classic. 1994 The Tradition, Las Vegas Senior Classic, Cadillac NFL Golf Classic, GOLF MAGAZINE SENIOR TOUR Championship. 1995 PGA Seniors' Championship, Burnet Senior Classic, Emerald Coast Classic. 1996 FORD SENIOR PLAYERS Championship. 2000 FORD SENIOR PLAYERS Championship. |
| International Victories |
| 1992 Fuji Electric Grandslam, 1994 Diners Club Matches (with Dave Eichelberger), 1994 Senior Skins Game, 1995 Senior Skins Game, Senior Slam at Los Cabos, Office Depot Father/Son Challenge (with Raymond, Jr.), Lexus Challenge (with Michael Chiklis), 1996 Senior Skins Game, Senior Slam at Los Cabos, Office Depot Father/Son Challenge (with Raymond, Jr.), 1997 Senior Skins Game, Office Depot Father/Son Challenge (with Raymond, Jr.), Lexus Challenge (with William Devane), 1998 Senior Skins Game, 2000 Office Depot Father/Son Challenge (with Robert). |
| Other Victories |
| 1978 Brazilian Open. 1979 Costa Rica Open. 1981 Canadian PGA, Seiko Point Leader. 1982 Seiko Point Leader. 1985 Chrysler Team Championship (with Hal Sutton). 1988 Skins Game. 1990 RMCC Invitational (with Fred Couples). 1993 Franklin Funds Shark Shootout (with Steve Elkington). |
| Current Year Charles Schwab Cup Points and Positions |
| 98 (30) |
| Current Year Champions Tour Money and Positions |
| $103,950 (50) |
| Current Year Best Champions Tour Finishes |
| T9--SBC Classic T9--Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf |
| Current Year PGA TOUR Best Round |
| 77 at Round 1, Masters Tournament |
| Current Year Champions Tour Best Round |
| 66 at Round 2, Toshiba Senior Classic |
| Current Year Champions Tour Highlights |
| Underwent successful prostate cancer surgery at Johns Hopkins Medical Center in late December. In first start since the surgery, finished T9 at the SBC Classic in March. |
| Best PGA TOUR Finishes |
| 1--1963 St. Petersburg Open Invitational. 1965 St. Paul Open Invitational. 1969 Greater Jacksonville Open, American Golf Classic, PGA Championship. 1975 Kemper Open. 1976 Masters Tournament, World Open Golf Championship. 1977 Byron Nelson Golf Classic, Pleasant Valley Classic. 1979 Greater Greensboro Open. 1980 Doral-Eastern Open. 1981 Doral-Eastern Open, Tournament Players Championship, Manufacturers Hanover Westchester Classic. 1982 Memorial Tournament, Danny Thomas Memphis Classic, PGA Championship. 1985 Houston Open. 1986 U.S. Open Championship, Walt Disney World/Oldsmobile Classic. 1992 Doral-Ryder Open. |
| Best Champions Tour Finishes |
| 1--1992 GTE North Classic, Ralphs Senior Classic, SENIOR TOUR Championship. 1993 Gulfstream Aerospace Invitational, Northville Long Island Classic. 1994 The Tradition, Las Vegas Senior Classic, Cadillac NFL Golf Classic, GOLF MAGAZINE SENIOR TOUR Championship. 1995 PGA Seniors' Championship, Burnet Senior Classic, Emerald Coast Classic. 1996 FORD SENIOR PLAYERS Championship. 2000 FORD SENIOR PLAYERS Championship. |
| Best 2002 Champions Tour Finishes |
| T15--Senior PGA Championship |
| 2002 Season PGA TOUR |
| Tournaments Entered--2; in money--; Top 10 finishes--0 |
| 2002 Season Champions Tour |
| Tournaments Entered--11; in money--11; Top 10 finishes--0 |
| 2002 Season Highlights |
| Limited his schedule to just 11 events, the fewest he has played in his Champions Tour career...Made just one appearance after mid-July when he played in the SBC Championship, the year's final full-field event...Best finish during the season came in Akron in June with a T15 at the Senior PGA Championship at Firestone CC...Also T17 at the FORD SENIOR PLAYERS Championship and T19 at the ACE Group Classic...Made appearances at The Masters and Advil Western Open but did not make the cut. |
| Career Highlights |
| 2001: Best performances of the campaign came early and late...A final-round 67 helped him to a T2 at the Verizon Classic in early February, three strokes back of winner Bob Gilder...Made a run at The Transamerica in late October only to come up one stroke short along with Doug Tewell, when Sammy Rachels eagled the final hole for victory. Played in The Masters and the Advil Western Open on the PGA TOUR, but missed the cut in both events. 2000: Voted by his peers as the Comeback Player of the Year...Highlight of year came during July when he had sub-par scores in 10 consecutive rounds and was selected as the Player of the Month. Closed with a final-round 67 at Saucon Valley to place fourth in the U.S. Senior Open and then won his next start at the FORD SENIOR PLAYERS Championship, defeating Larry Nelson and Dana Quigley by a stroke. Second win in Dearborn ended a victory drought of four years and two days and at 57 years, 10 months and 12 days, made him the oldest ever to claim a senior major championship. Won the largest check of his career, $345,000, when he rallied from six strokes back on the final day, the largest margin in FORD SENIOR PLAYERS history and the best come-from-behind effort on the Champions Tour that year along with John Jacobs (Bruno's Memorial Classic)...Made the first of 16 holes-in-one on the Champions Tour when he aced the third hole in the opening round of the Royal Caribbean Classic, the second hole-in-one of his Champions Tour career...1999: T2 at the MasterCard Championship in Hawaii, three strokes back of John Jacobs...Also fell one stroke short of Hale Irwin at the Ameritech Senior Open. 1998: Captured a fifth straight Senior Skins Game title in January...T2 at the LG Championship, two strokes short of Gil Morgan, who holed a sand wedge for eagle on the final hole for the victory...Runner-up check at that Naples event put him over $11 million in all-time earnings. 1997: Failed to win an official event for the first time since joining the Champions Tour...Had three third-place finishes, with two coming in consecutive starts at the GTE Classic and Southwestern Bell Dominion...Notched another third-place finish at the Northville Long Island Classic, missing a playoff by a stroke. 1996: Went over the million-dollar mark for third year in succession...A two-stroke winner over Hale Irwin at FORD SENIOR PLAYERS Championship...Also third at The Tradition and U.S. Senior Open. 1995: Only out of top 10 twice in 21 events with wins at PGA Seniors' Championship, Burnet Senior Classic and Emerald Coast Classic...Earned second Byron Nelson Award for lowest scoring average (69.47)...Second to Jim Colbert on final money list when he fell just one stroke shy of defending title at Energizer SENIOR TOUR Championship...Birdied final hole at Burnet Senior Classic to edge Graham Marsh and bested Tom Wargo on second extra playoff hole to win Emerald Coast Classic. Recorded his first Champions Tour hole-in-one at that Pensacola event. 1994: Earned over $1 million for first time in pro career and won four times, including dramatic victory at season-ending GOLF MAGAZINE SENIOR TOUR Championship. Overcame a six-stroke deficit on the final day and then holed a birdie putt on fifth extra hole to defeat Jim Albus...Won his first Champions Tour major at The Tradition, beating Dale Douglass in overtime...Also went wire-to-wire at the Cadillac NFL Golf Classic...Earned the Byron Nelson Trophy for lowest scoring average (69.08) and joined Lee Trevino and Don January as the only players to win both a Byron Nelson Trophy and the Vardon Trophy (PGA TOUR-1983). 1993: Split his time between the Champions Tour and PGA TOUR...Made just 14 Champions Tour starts but still finished ninth on the final money list...Captured the Gulfstream Aerospace Invitational in record form when he finished 22-under-par 194 to set a Champions Tour mark in relation to par for 54 holes....Also won the Northville Long Island Classic by two strokes over five other players...Was a wild-card selection for the Ryder Cup team and was instrumental in leading the United States squad to victory at The Belfry. 1992: Won three times in just seven starts and capped the year by claiming the SENIOR TOUR Championship in Puerto Rico...During the fall campaign, had defeated Isao Aoki at the Ralphs Senior Classic with a 54-hole score of 18-under 198...Made history when he became the first player to win on both TOURs in the same year...First captured his 22nd PGA TOUR event and third Doral-Ryder Open...With that title, he joined Sam Snead as the only players to win TOUR events in four different decades...Won the GTE North Classic title just 16 days after turning 50 and donated winner's check of $67,500 to Hurricane Andrew Relief Fund. |
| Personal |
| His family was named by Golfweek as the 1994 "Golf Family of the Year"...Also selected Golf World's "Man of the Year" for 1992...The son of L.B., a career Army man, he was exposed to golf at an early age in Fayetteville, NC, but chose to pursue baseball until capturing the National Jaycees golf title in 1960...Remains a devoted Chicago Cubs fan...Inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 1989...He has two sons. Raymond, Jr., a Wake Forest graduate, works at the investment firm Lazard Freres in New York, and Robert, who is pursuing a professional golf career...His daughter Christina, also a Wake Forest graduate, works in public relations in New York City. |
| PGA TOUR Playoff Record |
| 5-10 |
| Champions Tour Playoff Record |
| 3-1 |