
Help Former PGA Tour Caddie Geno Kelley fight cancer
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THE ORGANIZERS;
Rich Adams and Billy Barr for support in organizing this benefit.
Our friend, and compadre is in for the fight of his life with stage four prostate cancer .
Former PGA Tour Caddie, and Country Club/Resort Caddie
“GENO” Luther Kelley; has a challenging round for the next 6 months and beyond to Fight.
All donations will help with past and future expenses, medical bills and medications.
Further diagnosis revealed that he has stage four prostate cancer, which has metastasize almost entire body.
after completing a battery of chemotherapy treatments The last four months, his Battle continues.
Geno Has returned to Tallahassee Florida for cancer treatments, where he grew up.
He started as a caddy there at age 14, caddying in the Tallahassee Open during his school spring break.
After a few semesters of college in the late 70’s; he started looping full-time on the PGA Tour in 1978.
Over a many year career on the PGA Tour, PGA Champions Tour, and the LPGA Tour,
he caddied For some of the greatest names in golf;
Ben Crenshaw, Lon Hinkle,
Ian Woosnam, Ian Baker Finch, Pat McGowan, Curtis Strange,
Jody Mudd, Joanne Carner, Tom Weiskoff, Jim Nelford, Larry Nelson, Chip Beck, John Mahaffey, Andy Bean, Bob Estes, Shane Berstch, and many many more, From 1978 to 2010.
Geno also looped at Private Country Clubs and Resort Golf courses like Shoreacres in Chicago, Streamsong in Florida, Ballyneal in Colorado, Bali Hai in Las Vegas and Johnny Morris’s Big Cedar Lodge in Branson, Missouri.
He caddied around the world, In over 30 majors, 400+ golf tournaments, and the 1000’s of rounds of golf just having fun with members and their guests, while during his career he
probably walked around the world at lease once, if not twice, in miles or meters, depending on his players nationality.
His Favorite Course; “he always said, he had two”:
1. Cypress Point Club in Monterey, California; he looped many of Bing Crosby’s Clam Bakes there, and he and another pro-caddie once snuck on CPC, one Christmas morning;
2. Carnoustie Golf Links in Scotland, where he caddied in two Scottish Opens, one for Donnie Hammond, and another for Bob Estes, who was low American that year there.
Geno’s chemotherapy IV- Treatments is set for six months, With the first treatment Given on Tuesday, October 29th, with Sessions once every three weeks, orally a daily battery chemotherapy Medications For the six month time period as well.
A bladder stent and replacement surgery Is scheduled In December 2024, Where a new pet scan and biopsy will be performed to see what progress has been made.
Co-organizers (2)

Luther Kelley
Organizer
Branson, MO
Billy Barr
Co-organizer
Richard Adams
Co-organizer