Golf Masters: No matter how many tournaments he wins, we doubt Stephen Dodd will ever get the pulses of golf fans really racing. Sometimes you almost feel like pinching Dodd to make sure that his pulse hasn't stopped altogether.
It is understating things to say that he keeps his emotions in check after victory, and when he turned up in The K Club media centre last Sunday the only indication he had something to be happy about was that he was holding a large bottle of champagne.
For a guy who toiled in the nether regions of the Tour for so many years, he seemed remarkably downbeat after winning one of the season's biggest tournaments and over 500,000. The golf correspondent of a leading British newspaper tried to extract a few decent quotes from Dodd, but left in apparent disgust after getting nothing more than, "Golf is golf and you never know what's around the corner.
"I suppose your form can go as quickly as it comes, so I'm not really looking as far ahead as the Ryder Cup. I'm just going to look forward to playing next week in Loch Lomond, and that's all I've got to look forward to at the moment."
Clearly the man was not getting carried away, and in all likelihood will revert to playing out of the limelight for much of the season - which seems to be how he would like it.
There's no danger of him being overwhelmed by adoring Golf Masters managers either. Despite his Irish Open success last year, only 58 managers employed him at the start of the season and only 58 employ him now. His bosses seem to have adopted the same attitude as the player, who is vowing "to just wait and see what the results produce over the next month or two".
Not a single one of the leading 150 teams overall includes Dodd, and despite winning 150,000 for a bonus victory at The K Club he appears in only five of the teams on the weekly leaderboard.
Trevor Immelman won our other week 13 counting tournament, the Western Open. He costs more than Dodd, he won less than Dodd, but he appears in over one-third of the top-150 overall and over half of the top-25 for the week. Some players just have that kind of appeal.
Kieran Ryan counts himself among Immelman's admirers, and the Castleknock manager split his forces either side of the Atlantic to take the weekly prize with his Little Bluff selection. Apart from Immelman, he had Steve Flesch and Dudley Hart in action at the Western and they managed only 5,000 between them. The bonus money rolled in from The K Club, however, with Anthony Wall, Paul McGinley, Lee Westwood and Soren Hansen earning a combined 279,975.
Ryan, a 22-handicap member of Ashbourne, can now look forward to a fourball at Druids Heath with golfing buddies Christy Smith, Seán McCourt and Seán Byrne. Given their rivalry, the chances are that the man who sinks the winning putt at Druids will be more excited than Dodd seemed at The K Club.
