WITH THE full Golf Masters database at hand, it is always tempting to offer all sorts of hints for managers looking to improve the performance of their teams. The value-for-money and player popularity lists are usually good places to start, but when we saw an item on golfdigest.com giving advice on what to do about unwanted golf advice, we decided that sometimes less really is more.

Instead, enjoy some of Hugh O’Connor’s Limericks, which earn him one of our Nike Golf Dri Fit Polo shirts.

I made five teams in the week of the Masters,

Picking players much better than last year’s,

But they all bowed out meekly,

Even firebrand Boo Weekley,

Now they’ve turned into utter disasters.

To Holmes, Lee, Mark Wilson and Lynn,

I added Wagner and Pablo Martin,

And I think there’s a ring,

To Jeev Milkha Singh,

But he hasn’t come up with the win.

All my players are starting to flicker,

If Leona Maguire played I’d pick ’er,

But they won’t let her in,

’Cause they know she might win,

So I’ll have to settle for Stricker.

My golf team’s a total disgrace,

All my players complete wastes of space,

But I’m still vaguely hopin’,

They’ll place in the Open,

And propel me back into the race.

So to hell with the Havrets and Cinks,

My fantasy hope’s on the blink,

As I hope to above,

That old man Davis Love,

Rediscovers his form on the links.

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