Fuzzy Zoeller - Part 3 (The 1979 Masters and the 1984 U.S. Open)

About this episode

Fuzzy Zoeller shares his experiences from winning the 1979 Masters and the 1984 U.S. Open.

Fuzzy Zoeller, takes us along as he relives his two major championship victories. We begin with the 1979 Masters Tournament which featured the first sudden-death playoff ever in the event and found Fuzzy pitted against Tom Watson and Ed Sneed after he made up a six stroke Sunday deficit in his first start at Augusta. Then he recounts how he fought through excruciating back pain to notch the win in an 18-hole playoff against Greg Norman at the 1984 U.S. Open at Winged Foot. Fuzzy Zoeller relis...

People in this episode

Hosts: Bruce Devlin, Mike Gonzalez

Guest: Fuzzy Zoeller

Topics covered

• golf
• major championships
• Fuzzy Zoeller
• Masters Tournament
• U.S. Open
• playoffs
• sports history

Keywords

• Fuzzy Zoeller
• 1979 Masters
• 1984 U.S. Open
• Tom Watson
• Greg Norman
• golf playoffs
• sports history

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Winged Foot

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