The Outsiders

Kieran O'Toole (in second with The Chislers): "I've psychologically half resigned myself to not winning - I've told my wife and kids we're gone, forget Florida next summer - . . . . but, deep down, there's this little glimmer of hope. I have this feeling in my bones that Lee Westwood is too good to go through a whole season without winning a tournament, so he might do it for me. "If I was Edward Staunton I'd have to be taken away somewhere, I'd have to be dropped in Antartica because I'd be in bits. At least when you're £60,000 behind it's `ah sure, I didn't want to win anyway, what would I do with £10,000, we don't really need to go to Florida'.

"If there's less than 10 quid in it at the end, don't even try and ring me, I'll be in Grangegorman. Actually, if it's really close you should get the cameras in and make a fly-on-the-wall documentary out of it, there could be an Emmy in this." (You don't really want to win anyway Kieran, the press will only be digging in to your private life). Dermot McHugh (in fourth with Ollie's Army): Even though there's a gap of £176,489 between Dermot and Edward Staunton, our leading manager picks out Ollie's Army as the outsiders with the best chance of catching him.

All seven of his line-up will be in action this week. We know the identities of six - Jose Maria Olazabal, Ignacio Garrido, Retief Goosen, Ronan Rafferty, Daniel Chopra and Niclas Fasth - but Dermot has one transfer left and when we spoke to him yesterday he was still agonising over who to bring to replace Greg Norman, who doesn't play this weekend.

"I'm under no illusions, to me it would be an honour even to make the top 10. I enjoyed it and don't mind where I finish, it was a bit of crack at the end of the day," said Dermot, a native of Glenties, Co Donegal.

Tony Murnaghan (in eight with Spiders From Mars): How are things? "Ooh, in decline, we're at the miracle-required stage now . . . but it's mathematically possible, albeit a very slim possibility." So how can you win? "I need Howell and Cage to come first and second . . . and Ames and Carter to come nowhere," said our less than confident manager. So do you think Howell and Cage will come first and second? "No." Stranger things have happened. "No they haven't.