Fuzzy Zoeller
Fuzzy Zoeller in 1986 at Augusta National
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He put this victory down to his Augusta National caddie Jerry Beard: “I never had one thought all week. I figured my local caddy knew this course a whole lot better than me, so I just put my hand out and played whatever club he put in it. I’d say how hard do I hit it, he’d tell me and I’d swing.”
He won his other Major, the 1984 US Open, after a play-off, too. After Greg Norman had holed a 40ft (some say 50ft) putt to par the 72nd hole. Zoeller, watching from the fairway, waved a white towel in surrender. He believed Norman had made a birdie, not par – Zoeller was not aware that Norman had put his approach into the grandstand.
The pair had dinner together that night Zoeller won the play-off the next day by eight shots, carding 67, and Norman waved a white towel at him as they walked up to the18th green.
“I’m not a great player, but I’m a damn good one,” Zoeller said after the victory.
Zoeller also won a Senior Major, the 2002 Senior PGA Championship.
Frank Urban Zoeller Jr. was nicknamed Fuzzy, as was his father, from his initials. The son said he didn’t realise his name was Frank until he started school and the teachers called him by that name.
Jay Sigel
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Robert Jay Sigel was considered by many to be America’s finest amateur golfer since Bobby Jones.
He won the US Amateur twice and also the British Amateur. He played in nine Walker Cups, serving as playing captain in two of those appearances. He was the Low Amateur at the 1980 Open, the 1984 US Open, and the 1980, 1981 and 1988 Masters.
He had intended a career as a pro golfer after university, but put his hand through a glass door pane and his hand required 70 stitches. He embarked on a successful career in insurance instead. “I always thought things happen for a reason. The hand injury was the best thing to happen to me,” he said later in life.
He turned pro aged 50 to play on the Senior PGA Tour, on which he won eight…
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