While speaking on the latest episode of The Favorite Chamblee Podcast, Brandel Chamblee recalled a great story involving golf legend Raymond Floyd that the analyst called the “most awesomely arrogant thing” he’s ever seen.
Floyd, who won 4 majors during his career, had a reputation for being a fierce competitor and not the warmest playing partner to go out alongside with on the course.
While recapping the story on the show, Chamblee began:
“I was playing with Mark Brooks at Honda. Brooks and I, we weren’t the fastest players in the world. We were talking, telling stories, I don’t know.
We were walking off the tee box, maybe the 15th hole, and we were about 100 yards off the tee box, and we hear ‘whoosh’. Somebody had just zipped a ball over our heads without asking if they could play through.
And it was Ray Floyd. He was walking down, he walks up, his caddie gives him a number right beside us, he never acknowledged us, didn’t look in our direction nothing. He got his yardage, took his time, pulled a club out, hit it on the green, walked up to the green, caddie cleaned the ball, he took his time and putted out.”
Brandel continued:
“He didn’t look at us, didn’t say anything.
He walked over the next tee and I thought that is the most awesomely arrogant thing I have ever seen in my life. Like, we did not exist in his world. We were absolutely irrelevant to him. The Tour was a lot like that then.“
You can check out the full episode of the podcast here.
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