Raymond Floyd

Raymond Floyd is an American professional golfer and golf course architect, born on September 4, 1942 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. His full name is Raymond Loran Floyd. His four majors are the PGA Championship in 1969 and 1982, the Masters in 1976 and the U.S. Open in 1986. He won 22 times on the PGA Tour, the last of them in 1992 at the age of 49, and added 14 wins on the senior tour. He played eight Ryder Cups for the United States and captained the American side in 1989, the same year he entered the World Golf Hall of Fame. He won on the Japan Golf Tour as well, taking the Daiwa KBC Augusta in 1991.

His design work is largely on courses in the United States. The Captain’s Club at Grand Blanc, Michigan, takes its name from his Ryder Cup captaincy in 1989, and the club credits the design to Floyd and his team; construction was finished in 1993. Arrowhead Country Club at Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, is a 27-hole course he designed with Tom Jackson. In Florida he designed Old Palm Golf Club at Palm Beach Gardens, and in 2009 he remodelled the Palm Beach Par 3 Golf Course. Raptor Bay at Bonita Springs, which he designed with Harry Bowers, was then rebuilt from the ground up by the same two and opened in November 2023 as Saltleaf Golf Preserve.

On design, Floyd has described his own approach as working within the land to build a golf course that looks natural, that flows, and that blends into the landscape around it. At Saltleaf Golf Preserve too the emphasis was on moving as little earth as possible and setting the course down as part of the natural surroundings. GoGolf does not at present list any course designed by Floyd.

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