Fuzzy Zoeller, a gregarious, wisecracking golfer who won 10 tournaments on the PGA Tour, including two major championships, but whose racially derogatory and stereotypical remarks about Tiger Woods at the 1997 Masters tarnished his image, died on Thursday. He was 74.
The PGA Tour announced the death but did not give the cause or say where he died.
Zoeller won his two majors in playoffs after being tied following 72 holes. At the 1979 Masters, he defeated Ed Sneed and Tom Watson with a birdie on the second hole of a playoff. Five years later, at the United States Open, he won by eight strokes over Greg Norman in an 18-hole playoff.