What a stupendous sporting week for Galway. Not content with winning the All-Ireland football championship the county made it a glorious double with Salthill's Rory Timlin romping to victory in the race for bottom place in this year's Golf Masters.

In doing so Rory enters the annals of Golf Masters' history as the first entrant to retain his worst-manager-of-the-year title. Last year he finished bottom with earnings of £409,108 - this year he has magnificently, very nearly, halved that total with The Underdogs.

His final score was splendidly £1,762,726 short of the overall average earnings of £1,997,178. After a depressingly bright start Rory successfully unsteadied the ship, used up his four transfers and won just £32,200 in the last 20 weeks of the competition - take a bow, Francis Howley, David Higgins, Cameron Clark, Keith Nolan, Greg Norman, Brad Bryant and Wayne Levi.

Dermot Hogan of Limerick and Paula Hesnan of Dublin just couldn't match Rory's eye for a strugglin' (or injured) golfer and had to settle for second and third bottom places, respectively.

And congratulations to Danny Grehan, or "Dan, Dan the Bottom Man", as his friends at Guinness's call him, after he lived "down" to his name by coming last in their mini-Golf Masters, based on our own figures.

"He told me to let you know his own game has improved, though - he's even hitting fairways now (not necessarily the right ones, but what the hell - a fairway's a fairway)," wrote George Walsh, the man in charge of adding up the figures in the Mini Masters. "Next week he's even thinking of bringing his pitch mark repairer, just in case." (As George predicted a few weeks back `Hans' Christy Anderson wrapped up first place, with a few weeks to spare, winning himself £400).