Let’s hope things go right for Lefty.

Well, things certainly haven’t gone Padraig Harrington’s way since we last checked in on the reigning British Open champion. He sprained his right wrist on Saturday hitting an impact bag, and he might not even make it to this year’s Open at Royal Birkdale. Paddy’s freefall down the futures market continues; he was at 33-1 at press time.

Strangely, that leaves Phil Mickelson rising into second-favorite status at 12-1. This despite Lefty’s awful career record at the British Open, including missing the cut last year. He simply doesn’t have the experience playing the kind of courses – and in the kind of weather – you find across the pond.

Sergio Garcia does. He remains the Open favorite at 8-1, and although he’s never won a major, Garcia has finished in the Top 10 six of the last seven years, narrowly losing the 2007 Open to Harrington in a playoff. He’ll get that monkey off his back eventually, just like Mickelson did.