After the first three weeks of the 1998 Golf Masters Glen Day had still to earn a single pound for the 135 managers who invested £800,000 of their budget in the resident of Little Rock, Arkansas - the 32-year-old had missed the cut at the Doral-Ryder Open and Bay Hill Invitational and was a non-starter at the Honda Classic.
Top three finishes, however, in the next three tournaments he played - The Players Championship, the Freeport McDermott Classic and the MCI Classic - won him £252,250, making him our "best value for money" player (based on earnings to date in relation to the cost of the player) after eight weeks of the competition.
Bob Estes' third place finish at last weekend's Greater Greensboro Classic moves him to second in the top 10 value list, just £600 short of Day's total earnings. Estes has played in six of our eight American tournaments so far, tying for second at the Bay Hill Invitational and finishing in the top 10 at the Honda Classic and Freeport McDermott Classic.
Day and Estes are third and fourth on the overall leading earners' list, which is headed by Mark Calcavecchia, the only golfer to top the £300,000 mark so far, and Jim Furyk, who has earned £263,917 to date.
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