Week's top team has a top name

It's impossible not to think of the old complaint about waiting hours for a bus only for two to then arrive together

It's impossible not to think of the old complaint about waiting hours for a bus only for two to then arrive together. For the last few weeks we have been rather disgruntled about the nameless, faceless teams in the upper reaches of our leaderboards.

Then along comes a winning team with two managers and a whimsical name to boot.

Regular readers of this column will surely be familiar with Diarmuid and Mike, the Limerick duo who over the years have amassed a wardrobe full of Cutter & Buck shirts for their various statistical insights into the progress of the competition.

Quite how Diarmuid Reddan and Mike O'Brien manage to conduct their respective insurance businesses with all the time they spend on their Golf Masters spreadsheets is a mystery.

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It is also surprising that they have never won a weekly prize. This week they righted that wrong as their Not Another Murnaghan selection garnered 459,250 to just pip Geoffrey Rooney's Rooney 2 for the award of a fourball at Druids Heath.

Both were among the 15 teams to include the European Open winner, Kenneth Ferrie, and the Western Open champion, Jim Furyk. The Limerick lads set themselves up by taking out David Howell and bringing in Graeme McDowell, who earned €37,500 for his tied-13th finish at the K Club.

Rooney could have nabbed the honours with any number of replacements for the idle David Toms, but he failed to take action and paid the price.

There is regular money on offer this week at the Scottish Open and the John Deere Classic.