Fuzzy Zoeller, two-time major winner haunted by racist Tiger Woods joke, dies aged 74
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Fuzzy Zoeller, the two-time major champion whose genial public persona was overshadowed by a racially insensitive joke about Tiger Woods that came to define the latter part of his career, has died aged 74.
No cause of death was immediately available. Brian Naugle, tournament director of the Insperity Invitational in Houston and a longtime colleague, said Zoeller's daughter notified him of the death on Thursday.
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