Just imagine you had a team made up of Tiger Woods, Darren Clarke, Matt Gogel, Kirk Triplett, Brian Henninger, Mark Brooks and JL Lewis and just imagine Woods winning the US Open, Clarke finishing second, Gogel coming third, Triplett taking fourth, Henninger and Brooks eagling the 18th to sneak in to fifth and sixth places respectively and JL Lewis finishing seventh. Your total prize money, come Sunday evening? A mammoth £920,000 - we're prepared to take a gamble and predict you might even win a fourball if that's your haul from Pebble Beach. It's the stuff of Golf Masters' dreams, but there's probably as much chance of it happening as there is of Paul Lawrie winning the tournament (which, of course, he can't, because he's withdrawn from it).
In all, 78 of the players on our list have made it in to the US Open field, ranging in price from Woods (£5.5 million) to the two £500,000-rated players, Brooks and Lewis - Lawrie is the only player valued above £2.8 million who won't be in action this week.
Appearing as they do, in a total of 9,360 of our teams, Darren Clarke and Padraig Harrington's progress over the next four days will be of considerable Golf Masters' interest while Woods' 3,685 managers will expect nothing less than a contribution of £200,000 to their accounts on Sunday. Any hope of one of our bargain buys providing their managers with stunning value for money by winning the tournament?
Well, you tell us - here's the list of players valued at under £2 million who have qualified for the US Open: Michael Campbell, John Cook, Rocco Mediate, Ted Tryba, Andrew Magee, Shigeki Maruyama, Brad Faxon, Duffy Waldorf, Scott Verplank, Dennis Paulson, Frank Nobilo, Steve Jones, Craig Parry, Frank Lickliter, Notah Begay, Brandel Chamblee, Edward Fryatt, Corey Pavin, Larry Mize, Scott Gump, Paul Goydos, Matt Gogel, John Daly, Kirk Triplett, Brian Henninger, Mark Brooks and JL Lewis.
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