Manchester City striker CARLOS TÉVEZ's caddying cameo during the final round of the Open Championship last weekend has been labelled as "absolute madness" by golf governing body Royal & Ancient, according to Josh Burrows of the LONDON TIMES. The footballer spent Sunday on the fairways as he carried the bag of his fellow countryman ANDRES ROMERO at Royal Lytham & St. Anne's. Tévez admitted that he could not "offer much advice to Romero but enjoyed the experience nonetheless." R&A Championship Committee Chair JIM MCARTHUR was less impressed and said that "the issue needs to be investigated." McArthur: "He never put the bag down, even when he was standing on the green -- it's just absolute madness" (LONDON TIMES, 7/24). The London DAILY MAIL wrote R&A CEO PETER DAWSON "took a different view of the incident." Dawson said, "It was pretty interesting. I thought, because of the big crowd following the group, that golf fans and football fans may overlap a little more than I had realised. It's not a bad thing, perhaps" (DAILY MAIL, 7/24).
