Augusta National should honor the Black caddies who carried Masters history Politi

AUGUSTA, Ga. — Jariah Beard won the 1979 Masters, and if you don’t believe that’s true, just ask the man who actually slipped on the green jacket at Augusta National that year. “It was like a blind man with a seeing eye dog,” Fuzzy Zoeller said. He was a hot-shot young rookie who had never competed at the Masters, and so he made the smartest decision of his golfing life. He listened to Beard, the caddie assigned to his bag that year, and did everything he said. Four rounds later, Zoeller had a piece of golf immortality. Beard, in contrast,…