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July 14, 2012; Lake Orion, MI, USA; Fuzzy Zoeller (USA) hits out of a bunker on the 13th green during the third round of the U.S. Senior Open at Indianwood Golf and Country Club.

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 f

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