Fuzzy Zoeller and caddie Jariah Beard at the Augusta National Golf Course during the 1980 Masters. (Photo: The Augusta Chronicle)
Longtime Augusta National Golf Club caddie Jariah Beard, who was alongside for Fuzzy Zoeller’s 1979 Masters victory, died in March at age 82.
Zoeller remains the most recent first-time participant to win the Masters (only Horton Smith in first tournament, 1934, and Gene Sarazen in 1935 were other rookie winners). Zoeller famously gave Beard, who made his own yardage book and considered clubbing a player to be an art, the keys to dictate yardage, clubbing and reading greens.
“He called all the shots,”: Zoeller said in a phone interview with Golfweek.
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