Longtime Augusta National caddie Jariah Beard, who caddied for Fuzzy Zoeller when he won the 1979 Masters, died on Friday morning, according to his longtime friend Leon Maben in Augusta. Beard was 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.
