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PGA Tournament Busts - The Open Championship - The Royal Birkdale Golf Club - Southport, England

You know, I have good weeks, and I have bad weeks, just like everyone else.  However, some weeks, like this one (where I picked the outright winner at The Open, and had a gaggle of top-25 finishes nailed across both tournaments; and skewered Sergio Garcia in my Feature this week) are better than others.  These are the weeks when what I say will happen actually happens, and the entire Fantasy World (or at least those who read these articles) are better off for it.  Needless to say, the busts I thought would bust, busted; and that's the way it's supposed to work.  So, without further ado, I present to you this week's Top Tournament Busts.

Sergio Garcia - Ha, ha and more HA!  That's for all the experts across the Internet who had Garcia as a "can't miss" pick this week.  Usually, I don't give much notice to MSN, Yahoo! or ESPN picks, because they don't normally know any better.  But, when PGATour.com gets in on the act; I have to respond.  Sergio Garcia simply isn't a good enough putter to merit all the love he gets.  Picking Sergio "because he won The Players" is such a lazy and uninformed pick it's scary; why not pick Trevor Immelman?  He won the Masters after all.  You know, an actual Major tournament, not a made up one like The Players.  Well, Sergio did almost exactly what I thought he would do.  He started off relatively well (72-73 put him in the top-25 heading for the weekend), but he followed that up with a clutch weekend of 74-78 to finish in a T-51st.  Can we be done with Sergio for a while?  Aren't "the experts" tired of getting burned by this guy?  Exactly what you'd expect to happen, happened, as Garcia was the worst putter in the field on the weekend and dropped 36 spots on Sunday to finish out of the top-50.  I know this probably isn't going to stop the Sergio Love, but maybe, just maybe, it will slow a bit.  ESPN concluded their wrap-up of The Open coverage by mentioning that Garcia, the "odds-on" favorite to win, finished in a T-51st, almost as an afterthought.  "Odds-On" favorite?  For who, exactly?  Fantasy impact: as usual, don't pick Sergio under any circumstances.  You'll be right a lot more often than not.

Stewart Cink - Cink missed a golden opportunity to cement himself in with the elite of the World this week, but ended up shooting 75-75 and just missing the cut.  I won't skewer Cink too much, because an American unfamiliar with Links golf, and more importantly Links weather conditions are at a distinct disadvantage to those who are.  Cink gets the bust nod here however because of the missed opportunity.  Cink's going to watch Anthony Kim and Kenny Perry fly right by him into the "Tiger Void" and Cink will remain on the outside looking in; unless he can get it done at the PGA Championship in a couple of weeks.  Cink found the conditions nearly impossible for his forte, putting.  And when his flat stick goes, his game goes, and he ends up in a missed cut situation like he did this week.  It's a shame really, and I hope for his sake he can get things going soon.  He's too good of a player to be left out of the mix in the "Tiger Void Sweepstakes".

Geoff Ogilvy - And, I suppose you can put a big "ditto mark" next to Ogilvy's Thursday and Friday, as well as the entire fallout and impact story.  The conditions got to him, and Ogilvy shot 77-74, missing the cut by two shots.  Like Cink, it was a lack of a putter that killed him; and like Cink, Ogilvy missed an opportunity to move up on the "prestige" scale filling the "Tiger Void".  Ogilvy, like Cink, is just too good of a player to miss out on this, but maybe they're meant to be on the outside looking in for their career.  I personally think they're more than good enough; but losing focus in Majors when the World is watching is not the way to cement your legacy.  This is a chance for the true elite in the World to shine; as pretenders like Vijay (also missed cut) and Sergio (T-51st) fall by the wayside.  I really hope Ogilvy can rebound at the PGA, a tournament in which he should fare much better.

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