A familiar name appears on our leaderboards this week, but not in a familiar place. Rory Timlin from Galway has made a virtue out of finishing rock bottom of our competition in recent years. But he is doing a Seve Ballesteros in reverse and, by accident or design, has improved at an alarming rate.

Timlin now finds himself inside the top 30 with Galway United and The Bridge Player, and has been replaced as loser-in-chief by Thomas Walshe.

"I've been playing Golf Masters right from the start and I reckoned that this was the only way I was going to get a polo shirt," says the man from Raheny who, like all of the bottom five managers, has Seve in his selection.

When Walshe named his team Pot Bunker he was probably thinking of the Road Hole and hoping never to get out. The alarm bells were ringing last Thursday when Justin Rose started the Dutch Open with a 68. He went on to finish tied 28th (£12,500 in Golf Masters earnings) and Walshe moved almost £7,000 closer to second from bottom Michael Clancy with 201 Class. "I'm pleased for Rose but it is a setback for me," said Walshe. "Earlier in the season I had Gary Murphy, but he was doing too well also and I swapped him for Mark Roe."

Polo shirt on the way, but try not to be so disloyal to Irish players in future.

Alas for Seamus Flood, his Lead Balloon has defied gravity and risen to 20,975th (or 10th from bottom). To finish bottom, Hackers and Losers need to live up to their name quick, while Duncan Scott requires the members of Make the Cut to do the opposite.