When you're 55, and your son calls you from across the country at 6:20 in the morning, you worry. But for Champions Tour player Des Smyth, it was a once in a lifetime call. From a Golfweek staff article:
The son of Irish golfer Des Smyth hit the jackpot on the Emerald Isle.
Greg Smyth, 24, won nearly $14 million in the Irish National Lottery, the Champions Tour announced Aug. 14.
Smyth, of Baltray, County Louth, is studying for a degree in horticulture.
His father, who is playing in this week’s Jeld-Wen Tradition in Sunriver, Ore., called the news “surreal.”
This year, Smyth is 74th on the Champions Tour money list with $123,132.
