Byrne family club together to make it a memorable golfing day

SUNDAY certainly was some day for the Byrne family from Howth in Co Dublin.

While Cyril Byrne was winning the captain's prize at Royal Dublin, his 40 year-old son Colin was Retief Goosen's caddy thousands of miles away at Shinnecock Hills as the South African strode to a magnificent victory in the US Open Championship.

You could hardly ask for more than that and the celebrations in both cases were long and exciting! While Cyril gloried, as every club golfer does, in his achievement, the younger Byrne enjoyed the new found fame and looked forward to banking $112,000, the usual caddy's 10% fee of the winners cheque.