In an ideal Golf Masters' world your team, to a man, would perform with sparkling consistency through the first 20 odd weeks of the competition, leaving you with four transfers for the final run-in, enough to boost your line-up and propel it over the £10,000 winning line.

But what happens if you're stuck with an out-of-form Darren Clarke or a nowhere-to-be-seen Michael Campbell or Peter Lonard? You panic, that's what, and use up most (or all, in some cases) of your transfers before we even hit week eight.

Confident that he would repeat his form of last season 5,980 of you hired Clarke at registration time, making him our most popular player, but since then 144 of you have abandoned ship, with most choosing to replace him with Des Smyth.

At the other end of the scale Greg Kraft, currently top of our "best value for money list", is the number one choice of managers opting to use their transfers early, followed by Smyth and David Toms (joint third at the Doral Ryder Open in week one).

Hired Since Week One

No. Player Value Earnings Hired

1 Greg Kraft (0.6) 93,000 194

2 Des Smyth (0.7) 29,800 158

3 David Toms (1.5) 135,000 157

4 Frank Lickliter (1.0) 44,821 156

5 Tim Herron (1.3) 124,750 138

6 Payne Stewart (2.4) 206,250 96

7 Fredrik Lindgren (0.5) 65,250 85

8 Fuzzy Zoeller (0.6) 16,650 82

9 Robert Damron (0.8) 79,563 75

10 Tom Lehman (2.7) 112,250 73

Fired Since Week One

No. Player Value Earnings Hired

1 Darren Clarke (3.5) 4,250 144

2 Jerry Kelly (0.6) 21,306 124

3 Len Mattiace (0.8) 18,250 82

4 Michael Campbell (0.9) 0 81

5 Scott Simpson (0.7) 750 63

6 Raymond Russell (1.1) 7,750 59

7 Anders Forsbrand (0.6) 1,000 57

8 Peter Lonard (1.3) 0 56

9 Mark Wiebe (0.5) 19,806 51

10 Steve Flesch (1.4) 11,071 49