So, we're past the halfway point in the competition, you're a few £100,000 behind the leaders and you still have a couple of transfers left to make. Use those transfers wisely and who knows, by the time the scores are added up after the German Masters and Texas Open in week 30 you might have the tricky problem of having to decide how to spend £10,000.
Your prospects of catching Kevin Barry and the Murnaghan brothers will be all the greater if you're astute enough to make the right moves in the transfer market in time for our three remaining bonus tournaments and two `Majors'. The bonus tournaments still to come are next week's Irish Open, week 25's European Open and the British Masters in week 28, when players will win one and half times the regular prize-money. The two remaining `Majors' are the British Open (week 20) and the PGA Championship (week 24), when `double-money' is on offer.
The single biggest money-winning opportunities left in the competition are the Golf Masters' cheques for £400,000 on offer to any Irishman who can win either of the tournaments being staged in Ireland - the Irish Open and European Open. A quick glance at the table below will tell you that there's probably not much point in resting your £400,000winning hopes on Darren Clarke, if you want to close the gap between yourself and the leaders, because he already features in nine of our top 10 line-ups - only Gerry Wickham declined to hire the Ulsterman. John Huston is the next most popular player among our leading managers, appearing in seven of the top 10 teams, followed by Thomas Bjorn and Jose Maria Olazabal (six) and Tony Johnstone, Glen Day and Jim Furyk, who feature in five.
PLAYER VALUE TOP 10 EARNINGS
TEAMS TO DATE
1 Darren Clarke 3.0 9 £426,250 2 John Huston 1.0 7 271,023 3 Thomas Bjorn 2.5 6 393,950 3 Jose M Olazabal 3.1 6 410,000 5 Tony Johnstone 0.5 5 96,173 5 Glen Day 0.8 5 343,250
5 Jim Furyk 3.5 5 556,917 8 Bob Estes 0.8 4 304,900 9 Bob May 0.5 2 183,417 9 Mathias Gronberg 0.5 2 144,958 9 Scott Verplank 1.0 2 202,300 9 Paul Azinger 1.1 2 214,625 9 David Howell 1.3 2 180,886 9 Jeff Maggert 2.6 2 421,189
