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2-time major champion Fuzzy Zoeller dies at 74
Fuzzy Zoeller, a two-time major champion and one of golf's most gregarious characters whose career was tainted by a racially insensitive joke about Tiger Woods, has died, according to a longtime colleague. He was 74.
A cause of death was not immediately available. Brian Naugle, the tournament director of the Insperity Invitational in Houston, said Zoeller's daughter called him Thursday with the news.
Zoeller was the last player to win the Masters on his first attempt, a three-man playoff in 1979. He famously waved a white towel at Winged Foot in 1984 when he thought Greg Norman had beat him, only to defeat Norman in an 18-hole playoff the next day.
Two-time major winner Fuzzy Zoeller dead at 74: here's how he won the Masters
Two-time major winner Frank Urban “Fuzzy” Zoeller Jr., died, according to the USGA. He was 74.
Zoeller, who was born in Indiana, was a 10-time PGA Tour winner who captured victories at the Masters in 1979 and the U.S. Open in 1984. Zoeller is survived by his four children: Sunny, Heidi, Gretchen and Miles, as well as multiple grandchildren.
His win at Augusta marked the second time a player won the green jacket in their debut. Gene Sarazen also accomplished the feat in 1935.
In 2009, Zoeller spoke with Golfweek's Jeff Rude about his Masters win over Tom Watson and Ed Sneed in a playoff.
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Fuzzy Zoeller’s distinctive cool was effortless — except one regrettable time
Kind of fitting, that Fuzzy Zoeller died on Thanksgiving. No player could have had a better temperament for Skins Game golf than Fuzzy, winner of the 1979 Masters, one of the best ever played, and the 1984 U.S. Open at Winged Foot. He was loose, he was funny, he was fast and, when he was on, he could stake shots and hole putts with anybody. He won the Thanksgiving made-for-TV golf ritual in 1985 (Tom Watson was second), won it again in ’86 (Lee Trevino was second) and finished second (with Jack Nicklaus) when Trevino won the most Skins money in ’87.
Do you think Frank Urban Zoeller was intimidated, at all, playing with Jack Nicklaus and Lee Trevino and Tom Watson, with a camera in his face? Impossible.
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