If we'd a pound for every time a Golf Masters manager begged us, with pleading tearful eyes, to name the team we would have entered in the competition if petty rules hadn't stood in our way we'd be stony broke by now. Never mind, we know that you know that we know the winning formula to this competition, but you're just too shy to ask. Or, perhaps, you begrudge us our expertise and are damned if you'll give us the satisfaction of asking by how much our team would have led the competition in week 12 if we'd been allowed enter it in the first place.

The answer? A mere £131,355. Yes, thanks to our Hindsight Is 20-20 Vision Superb Seven line-up we'd be halfway to that trip to the Ryder Cup. Simple, really. All you had to do at registration time was hire Tiger Woods and spend the rest of your budget on snips like Scott Hoch (cost £2.2 million, has won £274,179 to date), Henrik Stenson (cost £700,000, has won £239,000) and Robert Karlsson (also cost £700,000, has won £229,575). And season to taste with Chris Smith and Jerry Kelly (combined cost: £1.6 million; combined earnings: £406,000), before topping the cake with the bargain buy cherry otherwise known as Des Smyth (valued at a penny-pinching £600,000, has won £125,000) and voila! Overall earnings: £2,011,383. Cost of team: £12.3 million. How many transfers used? Absolutely none. The perfect Golf Masters team to date? We think so. But we don't mean to boast.