Isn't that just typical? Alastair Forsyth finishes ninth in week one's Dubai Desert Classic sending 47 of our managers scurrying to their phones to use up one of their four transfers (with 28 weeks still to go) because they reckon he might prove to be the best value of our £500,000 rated players. And what happens? Forsyth fires a first round 80 at the Qatar Masters and has time to get back to Glasgow to see his beloved Rangers beat Hearts in the Scottish Cup - with a day to spare. Yes, the man who was our most popular transfer target after week one's tournaments missed the cut in week two.

A similar fate befell the 25 managers who decided to make an early change to their line-ups by hiring Stephen Gallacher last week - he tied for fourth in Qatar and, like Forsyth, missed the cut in Dubai (starting off well with a 72, but taking 10 more strokes to complete his second round). Paul Broadhurst and Notah Begay were top of the list of `fired' players after week one. Seventeen of Broadhurst's 231 managers decided not to stand by him through his recuperation from sprained tendons in his right hand while Begay discovered on his release from prison that 13 of his 1,824 managers had abandoned him.