Did you hear that a yearling colt racehorse is on offer to any golfer who can come up with an albatross two at the final hole at the British Masters at Woburn next week? Very nice too, but we reckon that if such a prize was offered to nine of our Golf Masters' managers they'd turn it down and ask for a donkey instead.

Why? Well, despite offering Richard O'Mahoney (Limerick), Thomas Chamney (Tipperary), Dermot Hickey (Dublin), Alan Mayock (Kildare), Kevin O'Brien (Kildare), Donal Hutton (Cork), A O'Keeffe (Dublin), Gerald Manahan (Cork) and Sean Deegan (Dublin) £12.5 million to splash out on their Golf Masters' teams at the start of the competition they spent less than £4 million and kept the change.

And, to be truthful, they've got what they paid for, with not one of them sitting in a loftier position than 19,269th. They still, though, have some way to go before they catch down with Paul Doyle who's this year's runaway loser, having made 19,557th and last place his own for as long as we can remember. And to think he splurged on his team, spending £4.9 million of his budget.