Let's be honest, it was unlikely to be the most exciting week in Golf Masters history. There's always a bit of a let down following a major. It was one of only two weeks in a two-month spell when there was no bonus money on offer and there was a less than stellar entry for the Great North Open.

With Tiger Woods never really threatening to end a winless streak that stretched all the way back to the previous week, it had the feeling of a Lions midweek match, rather than a Test. So it was that Christophe Pottier, Gregory Havret, Scott Gardiner and Andrew Beal record top-10 finishes at Slaley Hall and not a Golf Masters tour card between them. Jean Hugo, Marcello Santi and Per Nyman all in the top-25? Same story. In fact, more than half of the players who made the cut in the Great North Open didn't earn a single Golf Masters penny and so the impact on our overall leaderboard was predictably low.

Ray Charles still tops the charts with Castle Street 1 and the only significant move into the top five came from Finbar Lyons whose Meteor 47 selection ranked 14th this week to move from 25th to third overall. Back in week two, Lyons topped the overall standings and claimed the weekly four-ball prize with Meteor 114 and if we tell you that his phone number begins with 085 and that he works for a telecommunications company you'll know where the team names come from.

Meteor 47 is one of 877 teams to employ the in-form Sergio Garcia who picked up £100,000 for winning the Buick Classic and major contributions from Scott Hoch (£80,000 for second in Buick), Dean Robertson and Brett Rumford (both in the top-20 at Great North Open) contributed to weekly takings of £229,944.

However, Lyons isn't holding out too much hope for overall success as he has only one transfer left and knows that Hoch is unlikely to play in the British Open.

Hope of overall success disappeared a long time ago for Chelsea fanatic John Hennigan, and we're not just talking about the Premiership. Blue is the Colour 4 were lying 12,932nd on our very long leaderboard coming into week 17, so John took a leaf out of Claudio Ranieri's book and started tossing around big money in the transfer market.

Taking advice from this father Michael, a past captain of Bray Golf Club, John decided to target a weekly prize and used up five transfers to bring in Stewart Cink, Andrew Coltart, Eamon Darcy, Andrew Oldcorn and Olle Karlsson while ditching Richie Coughlan, Steven Richardson, Skip Kendall, Jean van de Velde and Jerry Kelly.

With Sergio Garcia already on the books, John was one of only 10 managers to employ both of this week's tournament winners.

Taking on Cink despite his US Open disaster proved to be a profitable leap of faith (£61,666 for tied third in Buick) and Ian Poulter was his other big contributor (£45,000 for seventh at Slaley Hall). Total prizemoney of £330,167 made John a very clear winner of the four-ball at Powerscourt followed by dinner.

That could be topped this week as the Irish Open is a bonus tournament with £400,000 for a home winner and our other counting event is the Greater Hartford Open.