Fuzzy Zoeller, a two-time major champion and one of golf's most outgoing 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.

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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 beaten him, only to defeat Norman in an 18-hole playoff the next day.

But it was the 1997 Masters that changed his popularity. Woods was on his way to a watershe

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