Sergio Wins Player's Championship

Sergio Garcia bested the field at the TPC Sawgrass to win the Players Championship, widely considered to be golf's fifth major championship. Below is part of the story posted by ESPN.com that detailed Garcia's win after speculation he could not win 'the big one'.

"All that changed in the final hour of The Players Championship thanks to two clutch putts, a wedge that found safety on an island and a playoff victory that Garcia desperately needed."

While any respect I had for Sergio Garcia was lost during his Chiquita Banana-wearing appearance last year on the PGA Tour, he does have a lot of talent. However, as ESPN stated Garcia has never risen when the pressure was on, against the best players in the world, and grabbed victory on the big stage. According to ESPN and golf analysts, Sergio has finally broken through.

Since none of the more esteemed writers in the sports community will say it, I will. The win today by Sergio Garcia is not a career defining victory. Garcia did have a solid comeback with some great putts and a victory on the first playoff hole. Garcia did not go toe-to-toe with Woods, Mickelson and Singh. Instead he beat out Paul Goydos who self-destructed with a water ball on the famous 17th hole in the playoff to go with bogeys on 14, 15 and 18 to close out his final round.

While I respect every player on the PGA tour as any one of them could work me up and down the links and I consider myself to be a strong competitor, but Goydos is ranked #140 in the world and hits the ball shorter than most club pros at only 265 yards. Garcia did not win the Players Championship any more than Kansas won the National Championship, instead it was given to him as Goydos refused to win with his sloppy play into the club house.

Maybe I'm just being hard on Garcia, but until he can figure out his putter he will not be a top competitor in the PGA. Somewhere Tiger Woods is nursing his knee with his baby on one side and his super model wife on the other, licking his chops at the thought of annihilating Sergio Garcia at the US Open.