GOLF: We have previously written about Seve Ballesteros' golfing problems in this column and even suggested solutions. The grim truth is that without some sort of improvement during the remaining 12 weeks of our competition he is in danger of losing his Golf Masters tour card for next season.

The winner of five majors is now employed by just 241 managers, a number that is likely to drop further this week.

But whatever the frustrations of managing Seve, they surely pale in comparison to the slings and arrows endured by the 1014 managers still pinning their hopes on John Daly. At least with Seve, you know what you are going to get - a missed cut - whereas with Daly anything is possible.

Following a steady start to the season including two fourth places, Daly has been the "Wild Thing" since the Players' Championship in March. After three missed cuts and a withdrawal in five events, he made it to the weekend at the US Open, shot 81 in round three and was first out on Sunday with amateur Kevin Warrick.

"If you want to watch us finish, make it to the 18th by 12 noon," was the message to Warrick from Daly's caddie before they went around in under three hours.

At last week's St Jude Classic, Daly fell from tied-16th to dead last with a third-round score of 79 and had just a marker for company on Sunday morning. He zipped around the front nine in 57 minutes and the back in 61 for a sub-two hour 74 and a 9.30 breakfast.

Daly knocked 10 minutes off Ed Fiori's tournament record according to Charles Speed, the tournament's appropriately named "Chairman of Leaderboards", who has worked at the event for 41 years. Sounds like the kind of statistician we would employ.