Jaime Diaz

And he knew the competitive side of it wonderfully.

I mean, like he he mentored Freddie Couples and just took him up a level just in terms of, you know, use your power intelligently and, you know, let your don't don't make big mistakes and all these things that, you know, they're subtle and they're nuanced.

But Raymond could coach it and he could talk it.

So, you know, not to say he was expansive that week, but on Sunday he was quite eloquent, I thought about that.

you know, the way he, the way he not conquered, but the way he handled Shinnecock and what Shinnecock demanded of a player, it was really an artistic golf course.

And he was an artistic golfer.

Yeah, and part of it was because he wasn't real expansive and told his story a lot and wasn't that engaging with the press.

He could have controlled the narrative a little bit more.

But inside the game, he was, I would say, revered as extremely good mentally, especially down the stretch.

We did see him lose the Masters in 90, and that was a killer when he lost to Faldo.

He didn't usually make those kind of mistakes.

So...

You know, what he did at Shinnecock was an interesting week because the week before he had led the third round at Westchester and shot 77 on Sunday.

And you may know the story when they were driving from Westchester to Shinnecock, he and Maria.

Maria was very challenging and she was the one who turned Raymond's career around because in the 60s, he was this really talented, long hitting, powerful player who just kind of screwed around too much.

going to the racetrack and

you know, late nights and bachelor and, you know, living the life, but not getting the most out of his golf.

And when he met Maria and they got married, it just changed him.

And he, he would always talk about that as the turning point of his career.

And so she said, you know, Raymond, we got to talk about what happened on Sunday here.