Jaime Diaz

Um, you know, you just didn't handle it.

I mean, what was wrong?

And Floyd didn't want to talk about it.

And, you know, he said, you know, leave me alone right now.

And they're in the car.

Anyway, they ended up pulling over on the Long Island turnpike and having this screaming match.

And Maria was a very strong woman and really smart and very accomplished businesswoman before she met Raymond.

And Raymond, you know, was a really strong personality.

But that's, you know, he deferred to her in many ways.

And she won the argument because they did talk about it.

And, you know, I guess he got his mind right at Shinnecock, whether it was conservative play or just, you know, just being really focused.

And I may screw this up, but, you know, he used to talk about Raymond having the look, you know,

which was this glazed look he would get on Sundays when he would close out tournaments.

Cause he'd won the PGA, I think by, you know, he'd led by eight or something coming down the stretch at Southern Hills and just dominated the whole tournament, um, and shot record score.

So when he got it going, you know, he would just get in this wonderful zone.

And she said, you know, I've seen him, I've seen him win without the look, uh, or I've seen him, how did she put it?

Um,

I've seen him win occasionally without the look, but I've never seen him lose with the look.

And he had the look at Shinnecock and it was, you know, she was, she was playing with, with, with Payne Stewart.

And later when Payne finally won some opens and won his majors, he said, you know, I kind of got an education from Raymond Floyd.