It must be nice to know - as Padraig Harrington does - that he could fail to break 100 in Bermuda tomorrow and Wednesday and still walk away almost €150,000 richer. That is last-place money in the four-man 36-hole PGA Grand Slam of Golf.
The event, designed to bring together the year's quartet of major champions, this time boasts just two of them.
Tiger Woods is not there because of injury — and Harrington's amazing double of Open and US PGA titles meant, of course, that two replacements were needed.
Jim Furyk and Retief Goosen are the pair who step in to join Harrington and Masters champion Trevor Immelman competing for a first prize of €440,000. There is €220,000 up for grabs for the second placed finisher with €185,000 on offer for third.
A "two-day jolly" was how Harrington himself described the tournament after a disappointing Ryder Cup when he also admitted "I can't wait for the end of the season."
That will not stop him, though, from being determined to make up for what happened on his Grand Slam debut last year. He led by four with 11 to go but went into a play-off when Angel Cabrera eagled the last and lost to the US Open champion at the third extra hole.
Having tripled his major title collection since then, Harrington will look back fondly on 2008 whatever happens at Mid-Ocean or in the remaining weeks of the year — but he does still have hopes of regaining the European Order of Merit title.
Those hopes, however, could nosedive later this week because Robert Karlsson looks to make it three victories in a row at the Portugal Masters.
The Swede's win at the Dunhill Links Championship swept him into a €140,000 lead over Harrington in the battle for the number one spot, and he could stretch the gap to more than €626,000 with only the Volvo Masters to come for them.
The winner's cheque at Valderrama will be €704,000.
Meanwhile, Oliver Wilson, who is desperate to be in the world's top 50 at the end of the year to secure a first appearance in The Masters at Augusta next April, has slipped to 51st by 0.001 points.
American Zach Johnson is up to 33rd in the new rankings, after capturing the Texas Open, and the victory by South African Charl Schwartzel at the Madrid Masters takes him to 66th.
Latest leading positions in the world rankings:
1 Tiger Woods 15.37 average points
2 Phil Mickelson 8.76
3 Vijay Singh (Fiji) 7.54
4 Padraig Harrington (Ireland) 7.38
5 Sergio Garcia (Spain) 7.05
6 Anthony Kim 5.24
7 Camilo Villegas (Colombia) 5.24
8 Robert Karlsson (Sweden) 5.17
9 Ernie Els (South Africa) 5.09
10 Henrik Stenson (Sweden) 5.07
11 Jim Furyk 5.04
12 Lee Westwood (Britain) 4.96
13 Steve Stricker 4.90
14 Stewart Cink 4.61
15 Justin Rose (Britain) 4.45
16 KJ Choi (South Korea) 4.42
17 Adam Scott (Australia) 4.40
18 Geoff Ogilvy (Australia) 4.32
19 Kenny Perry 4.19
20 Miguel Angel Jimenez (Spain) 3.98
Other leading Europeans:
25 Ian Poulter
27 Luke Donald
34 Graeme McDowell
36 Martin Kaymer
40 Ross Fisher
41 Paul Casey
42 Soren Hansen
47 Fredrik Jacobson
48 Carl Pettersson
51 Oliver Wilson
59 Peter Hanson
60 Darren Clarke
64 Nick Dougherty
72 Anders Hansen
75 Niclas Fasth
86 Gregory Havret
91 Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano
93 Paul McGinley
98 Alastair Forsyth
100 Soren Kjeldsen
