I don’t think Fuzzy is vindictive. He probably does not dislike Tiger and his dumb joke was not meant to hurt. He was known as a jokester and prankster but his jokes were not always funny. I think I remember him losing to GReg Norman when Greg made a great put and he toweled off his forehead. That was kind of funny.
I think most people felt bad about that whole incident because Fuzzy is a decent guy and people in golf knew that.
Fuzzy is decent, but Tiger just let him twist in the wind a long time before accepting his apology, and a lot of the other players were upset about that.