Caddies In Black Hats And Teary Matt Kuchar Honour Angela Bennett

Great piece by Jeff Babineau on why Matt Kuchar is playing the Deutsche Bank even though his caddie Lance Bennett's 39 year old wife Angela died suddenly on the eve of the tournament.

He’s been criticized in some corners for even playing this week, with his caddie and close friend struggling so direly back home in Texas, but the two discussed it and the conclusion was that Kuchar could help out more by playing. By filling others in, and getting started on a fund to help the family.
Babineau also describes Kuchar's emotions as he held back tears to tee off in Boston yesterday.
Kuchar put a peg in the ground, heard his name, and was struggling to hold back his tears. And once he managed to split the fairway with a 256-yard opening tee shot, he exhaled, turned to substitute caddie Brian Reed, a good friend of Bennett’s, and said, “That was harder than I thought.”
Kuchar shot 2-under 69, and afterward, being married himself with two sons, he struggled to put into words the incredibly difficult situation which has turned the life of a friend and week-to-week teammate upside-down.
“A caddie is part of the family; a caddie’s family is part of the family,” Kuchar said. “It’s one of those things, I can’t imagine how I would survive without my wife as the father of a couple of children, and Lance has a 4-year-old little girl. It’s sad. It’s things you wish wouldn’t happen and shouldn’t happen, but unfortunately they do . . . and it’s been a tough week.”
Angela Bennett, who would have turned 40 next month, had epilepsy, and she suffered from seizures. Her husband already was in Massachusetts on Tuesday to start his week when he received a call that she'd had a seizure and he needed to get home to Texas. Lance then phoned his good friend, Reed, the same man who’d introduced him to Kuchar years ago after Bennett came off the bag of LPGA great Lorena Ochoa, and asked if Reed could up from Florida to work for him.
“I didn’t ask for details,” Reed said Friday.
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