Raymond Floyd's Quotes
Born: 1942-09-04
Profession: Athlete
Nation: American
Biography of Raymond Floyd
I'm used to the golf course playing soft, so tomorrow I'm going to have to pay attention a little bit more.
Tags: Attention, Tomorrow, UsedWhen you're the best, and you know you're the best, and your contemporaries know you're the best, that's a terrific edge.
Tags: Best, Edge, TerrificAs a kid in Fayetteville, N.C., I played golf all day, every day, a lot of it by myself. I spent hundreds of hours around the greens at Cape Fear Valley, the course my dad owned, hitting every shot I could think of - the one-hop-and-release, the chip that lands dead, the explosion from a bad lie.
Tags: Bad, Dad, FearDoug Ford was one of the first of the old pros I saw during my first full year on tour, in 1963. To this day he's the best chipper I've ever seen. One thing Doug did was get the ball onto the green and rolling right away, keeping it as low as possible. He never hit his chips higher than was absolutely necessary.
Tags: Away, Best, OldI guess what was going to come back came back on Monday. Of course now I've played a different golf course. I've played two practice rounds and two tournament rounds all kind of the same and now today I've played a different golf course.
Tags: Golf, Monday, TodayI was from North Carolina, so as a youngster all of my mind games about golf were always, 'If I make this I win The Masters, if I hole this par putt I win The Masters.' So it was a great thrill to play there.
Tags: Great, Mind, WinIt's going to you know, I can't go out there and shoot par and win. Everybody is playing well, and I think you'll have to go out tomorrow and have 4 , 5 , 6 under par probably.
Tags: Playing, Tomorrow, Win