Caddie Greg Rita die of brain cancer

Greg Rita, the caddie for golfer including Gil Morgan, Scott Hoch, David Duval and Mark O’Meara over four decades on the PGA Tour, has died of brain cancer at the age of 54. His wife Kelley said that he died Saturday on his 54th birthday at McGraw Hospice Center.

He caddied for Curtis Strange when he won back-to-back US Open titles and for John Daly when he won the British Open.

Rita made his mark working for Strange in the 1980s when he won the U.S. Open in 1988 and 1989,  which made Strange the first repeat winner of the US Open  in nearly 40 years. He also was on the bag when John Daly won the Open Championship at at St Andrews.

Rita collapsed at a Champions Tour event in September 2007, and had surgery to remove a brain tumor two months later. He is survived by his wife and a 4-year-old son, Nicolas.