"Is Paul Broadhurst in jail," asked the manager on the helpline last week, confusing him, we hope, with Notah Begay who spent time behind bars last year. To our knowledge the only crime Broadhurst has committed is his failure to win his thousand managers a single Golf Masters' pound to date this year, a failure not unconnected to the fact that he has yet to play in one of our tournaments. Broadhurst, you might remember, suffered a serious injury to his right hand at last year's Dubai Desert Classic and needed surgery to repair the damage in August. He finally returned to action at the Alfred Dunhill Championship in January this year, playing in three more tournaments, his last the Greg Norman Holden International in February. But that was the last we heard of him.

Elsewhere, in our injury round-up, Richie Coughlan is due to return to action soon - possibly at this week's Greensboro Classic - after fracturing two ribs in a fall over a month ago, but Peter Jacobsen (hip) and Bob Estes (back) both had to withdraw from last week's Houston Open with injuries. Neither is in the Greensboro field so before you rush off and transfer them out give them a chance, they might make it to week 10's New Orleans Classic yet. Also injured in the course of week eight's tournaments was an iceplant at the Spanish Open. "He repeatedly and violently swung his club, thrashing the iceplant," reported tournament director Miguel Vidaor, after reprimanding Seve Ballesteros for taking out his frustration on the plant which came between him and his ball after a wayward tee-shot on the sixth hole. Ballesteros missed the cut, finishing on 11 over, which did nothing to brighten the Friday of young Donal Molloy of Strokestown, the only manager to hire the player just in time for the Spanish Open - perhaps in the hope that home soil would bring the best out of him. We will, of course, send a polo shirt to Donal but there's really nothing we can do for the iceplant.