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FULLY-eXeMPt PLAYeRSraymond Floyd (Continued)Section Player BiograPhies2PGA toUR VictoRieS (22):1963 St. petersburg open Invitational. 1965 St. paul openInvitational. 1969 greater Jacksonville open, americangolf classic, pga championship. 1975 Kemper open. 1976masters tournament, World open golf championship. 1977Byron Nelson golf classic, pleasant Valley classic. 1979greater greensboro open. 1980 Doral-Eastern open. 1981Doral-Eastern open, tournament players championship,manufacturers Hanover Westchester classic. 1982memorial tournament, Danny thomas memphis classic,pga championship. 1985 Houston open. 1986 u.S. openchampionship, Walt Disney World/oldsmobile classic.1992 Doral-ryder open.cHAMPionS toUR VictoRieS (14):1992 gtE North classic, ralphs Senior classic, SENIortour championship. 1993 gulfstream aerospaceInvitational, Northville Long Island classic. 1994 thetradition, Las Vegas Senior classic, cadillac NFL golfclassic, goLF magaZINE SENIor tour championship.1995 pga Seniors’ championship, Burnet Seniorclassic, Emerald coast classic. 1996 Ford Senior playerschampionship. 2000 Ford Senior players championship.inteRnAtionAL VictoRieS (4):1978 Brazilian open. 1979 costa rica open. 1981 canadianpga [can]. 1992 Fuji Electric grand Slam [Jpn].otHeR VictoRieS (12):1985 chrysler team championship. 1988 Skins game.1990 Franklin templeton Shootout [with Fred couples].1993 Franklin templeton Shootout [with Steve Elkington].1990 rmcc Invitational. 1994 Diners club matches[with Dave Eichelberger]. 1995 office Depot Father-Sonchallenge [with raymond Jr.]. 1996 office Depot Father-Son challenge [with raymond Jr.]. 1997 office DepotFather-Son challenge [with raymond Jr.]. 2000 officeDepot Father-Son challenge [with robert]. 2001 officeDepot Father-Son challenge [with robert]. 2006 Wendy’schampions Skins game [with Dana Quigley].2010 SeASon:Did not make a start on the pga tour for the first timesince the year before his rookie season in 1963.cAReeR HiGHLiGHtS:2009: Lone start on the champions tour came near theend of the season with a t73 at the at&t championship...made his 45th appearance at the masters tournament butmissed the cut. the 45th start was his 700th appearanceon the pga tour and moved him ahead of Sam Snead intosixth place on the all-time starts list at augusta. 2008: made44th appearance in the masters, missing the cut...playedthree champions tour events, with a best finish of t26teaming with tom Jenkins at the Liberty mutual Legendsof golf...Was a captain’s assistant to paul azinger on thewinning u.S. team in the ryder cup. 2007: Was one strokeoff the first-round lead in the champions tour’s inauguralginn championship at Hammock Beach and finished t8 atpalm coast...made his 43rd appearance at the mastersbut missed the cut. 2006: made his 42nd masters appearancebut failed to make the cut...once again played anabbreviated champions tour schedule, yet managed threetop-10s in nine official starts, the most he had in a singleyear since 2001...In mid-may at the Boeing championshipat Sandestin, made a run at becoming the championstour’s oldest winner. matched his age for the first timewith a final-round, 8-under 63, one off his championstour career low, on the raven course at Sandestin. Fellone stroke short of Bobby Wadkins but still became thethird-youngest player in champions tour annals to shoothis age in a round that included five consecutive birdies onthe back nine. 2005: returned to the site of his 1969 pgachampionship victory in Dayton, oH and was in contentionfor most of the u.S. Senior open before finishing t14 aftera final-round 77. Was presented with an honorary membershipto Ncr cc after his second round. 2004: missed thecut in two pga tour starts at the masters and u.S. open...Limited his schedule on the champions tour to just 12events, with best finish a t4 at the allianz championship...Second to mike Hill in the season-ending georgia-pacificgrand champions championship. 2003: missed cut atthe masters, his only tour event of the season...posteda pair of t9s on the champions tour and finished t2at the georgia-pacific grand champions championship.2002: missed cuts at the masters and Western open butrecorded a pair of 72s at the chicago event...Finished 70thon the champions tour money list with seven top-25s...underwent successful prostate cancer surgery at JohnsHopkins medical center in late December. 2001: Did notmake cut for second consecutive year...made 14 starts onchampions tour and finished No. 34 on the money list, hislowest finish since turning 50 in 1992. 2000: captured hisfourth champions tour major at the Ford Senior playerschampionship. 1992: collected most recent tour victoryat the Doral-ryder open, which he won at age 49. afterturning 50 later that year, captured gtE North classic onchampions tour, becoming first to win on both tours insame year. He and Sam Snead are only players in tourhistory to win in four decades. 1989: ryder cup captain,culmination of ryder cup career that included eight rydercup teams...Inducted into World golf Hall of Fame. 1986:Shot closing 66 to win u.S. open at Shinnecock Hills bytwo over chip Beck and Lanny Wadkins. 1983: Won Vardontrophy. 1982: Defeated Lanny Wadkins by three strokes atpga. 1981: Won tHE pLaYErS championship in playoffover Barry Jaeckel and curtis Strange, the year before thetournament moved to tpc Sawgrass. 1976: Wire-to-wirewinner of the masters. 1969: Won pga championship byone stroke over gary player.PeRSonAL:His family was named by Golfweek as the 1994 “golfFamily of the Year.” also selected Golf World’s “man ofthe Year” for 1992…the son of a career army man, L.B.Floyd, he was exposed to golf at an early age but chose topursue baseball until capturing the National Jaycees golftitle in 1960…remains a devoted chicago cubs fan…Hastwo sons. raymond, Jr., a Wake Forest graduate, works atthe investment firm Weeden capital in greenwich, ct, androbert is in residential real estate in palm Beach gardens,FL. Daughter christina, also a Wake Forest graduate, runsher own art firm, Floyd contemporary.PLAYeR StAtiSticSMISCELLANEOUS PGA TOUR STATISTICS2010 Low Round/Round: 63–2 times, most recent 1992mcI Heritage golf classic/2Largest career PGA toUR Paycheck/Finish: $252,000–1992 Doral–ryder open/1career champions tour Low Round: 62–1992 ralphsSenior classic/3Largest career champions tour Paycheck/Finish: $345,000–2000 Ford Senior players championship/12-60 PGA TOUR 2011 Guidepgatour.com