He might sound like a scary magazine that comes out every Thursday, but Boo Weekley proved frighteningly good at the weather-delayed Heritage Classic last Monday when chip-ins from 40 and 36 feet on the last two holes clinched him his first PGA Tour victory.
How many Golf Masters' managers benefited from the success of the man who got his nickname Yogi Bear's diminutive partner, Boo Boo? None. But they can't be accused of being dumber than the average bear, because Weekley hadn't qualified for our player list, so they couldn't have hired him even if they wanted to.
His victory, though, came as tiny consolation to the eight managers who fired Ernie Els after his less than impressive showing in Augusta. Instead of missing out on a €100,000 windfall from the Hilton Head, they only lost the measly 80,000 Els had to settle for after finishing second to Weekley. Mind you, the 11 managers who hired the South African after the Masters aren't complaining - 80,000 from their new recruit will do nicely, thank you.
Happily, Els proved to be the only major transfer calamity in week two, with nobody sacking Graeme McDowell or Andrew McLardy (who tied for second at the China Open), or Stephen Leaney, who finished third behind Weekley and Els. In fact, an impressive 50 of you brought McDowell in after his five-week break, and another 10 signed up Leaney just in time to collect on his 70,000 Golf Masters' earnings in South Carolina.
There was no transfer rush on Masters' winner Zach Johnson, with only three managers taking a gamble on him maintaining his Augusta form - everyone else, it seems, feared he'd rest on his laurels. He didn't, as it proved, winning 50,000 for his sixth-place finish at the Heritage.
Johnson has been in Eamon Murray's Eamo's Heroes 3 line-up from day one, so has earned our manager from Sandyford in Dublin 250,000 in just a fortnight. When you look through the rest of the names in that team - Markus Brier (winner of the China Open), McDowell (joint second behind Brier), Raphael Jacquelin (tied for sixth in China), Robert-Jan Derksen (top 15 in China), Camilo Villegas (top 30 at the Heritage) and Rory Sabbatini (didn't play - there's always one) - you get an idea of how Eamon was the only manager in week two to win over 300,000.
"I just closed my eyes and stuck a pin in the paper," he said. We encouraged him to be less modest. "I spent hours studying the list and choosing my players," he lied, although having already won a fourball, in last year's competition, we have to give Eamon the benefit of the doubt and assume that there's as much knowledge in there as there is luck.
"Well, I'd been doing the Golf Masters for five or six years and never had any joy, so that made it all worthwhile," said Eamon, whose reward is a fourball, this time at Druids Glen.
Eamon is now up to second overall, one of four managers to have already passed the 600,000 earnings mark. James Hearne of Tramore, Co Waterford, Edwin Humphreys, our first weekly winner, and Alan Erskine of Kilcar, Co Donegal, our new leader, complete the set.
All four will look to maintain their momentum at the BMW Asian Open and New Orleans Classic, week three's tournaments.
