Raymond Floyd is a retired American professional golfer, born on September 4, 1942, at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, and raised in Fayetteville, where his father was a golf professional at the base course. He turned professional in 1961 and won his first PGA Tour event in 1963 at the age of 20. He won 22 times on the PGA Tour, including four major championships, among them the PGA Championship in 1969 and 1982 and the Masters Tournament in 1976, and he also won on the Senior PGA Tour, taking four senior majors. He won the Vardon Trophy for lowest scoring average in 1983, played for the United States on eight Ryder Cup teams and entered the World Golf Hall of Fame in 1989.
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is an American retired professional golfer
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Floyd won his first major title six years later at the PGA Championship in 1969, and the second came in 1976 at The Masters, by an eight-stroke margin and was won wire-to-wire.
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Floyd won his first major title six years later at the PGA Championship in 1969, and the second came in 1976 at The Masters, by an eight-stroke margin and was won wire-to-wire.
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played for the U.S. on eight Ryder Cup teams (1969, 1975, 1977, 1981, 1983, 1985, 1991, and 1993)
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