With every weird, counter-intuitive week of golf, you've got some folks who should have taken advantage of that.  Those folks I will choose to call busts.  I'm not going to (intentionally) kill golfers who made my picks look dumb this week, because there's more than enough bust to go around.  One golfer can officially (I think) be known as "once great".  Another tanked after the first round lead, and the other decided to take all the goodwill surrounding him and flush it down the toilet (in a manner of speaking).  The good news is, all these players made the cut this week, so it's my subjective use of the word "bust" rather than any mechanical observation I've made.

Vijay Singh - I mean, are we all done with Vijay now?  Talent-wise, he was CLEARLY the best player in the field, and being from Fiji, I would think he could handle the heat pretty well.  After a first-round 67, and looking like a serious threat to contend, he shot 71-70-71 (+2) to close things out.  Now Vijay has never been known as the most clutch golfer in the World, but against a field like this?  There was one golfer in the OWGR Top-10 this week.  Care to guess who it was?  The sad part of it all was, for a change, Singh putted extremely well (T-4th in Putts Per Round, 5th in Putts Per GIR), but was killed by his nemesis this season, the old "GIR" where he finished in a T-45th.  Sit 'Em for the U.S. Open next week?  My first thought is Vijay Singh.

Tommy Armour III - After an opening-round 66 and a share of the first day lead (-4), he closed things out with a 73-71-72 (+6) to finish at +2 for the tournament.  Plus ten points for finishing in the top-25, quite an accomplishment for the journeyman Armour; but minus several million for choking away what was likely his best opportunity at a win for a long time.  On Day One, he putted fine; but his old pal, the awful putter, caught up to him as he finished T-61st in Putts Per Round, and 67th in Putts Per GIR.  That was pretty much the whole tournament for Armour, and if you throw in his T-62nd in Driving Accuracy for the week, you can see why such a precipitous drop happened.  Too bad, I really thought Armour was going to have something here.

Kenny Perry - Boo.  You suckered us all in; even those of us who were doing their best to resist your recent play as a fun fluke.  Nope, you had to have an incredible month, and make us all believe you were playing on an elite level now.  Well, 71-71-69-71 (+2) says otherwise, and says, at the very least, we can all discount you for the U.S. Open next week.  The putter was the demon for Perry this week, finishing T-66th in Putts Per Round, and T-61st in Putts Per GIR.  The rest of his game was pretty good, but if you're putting like this on relatively easy greens; you've got NO shot at the U.S. Open.  We'll probably see you this fall in the watered-down tourneys after the PGA Championship.