Tour Outsider: The PLAYERS Championship

This week the US PGA Tour is at Sawgrass in Florida playing it's gem of a tournament: The PLAYERS Championship.

Let's look at the Golf CLi and see who the top 15 players are for the tournament ranked by the CLi figure.

Rank Player CLi 1 S Adam Scott 4.45 2 S Phil Mickelson 9.65 3 S Padraig Harrington 11.25 4 S Stewart Cink 14.15 5 S Vijay Singh 15.75 6 S Mathew Goggin 17.35 7 S Jim Furyk 18.55 8 S Retief Goosen 22.60 9 S Henrik Stenson 26.50 10 S Brandt Snedeker 28.20 11 S Boo Weekley 30.50 12 S Lee Westwood 30.95 13 S Stephen Ames 31.50 14 S Geoff Ogilvy 32.80 15 S Steve Elkington 33.10

I am going to go with the top 4 in the CLi rankings. Actually the top 5 all look good. However, I am going to do something strange this week and go all the way down to the 14th player in the CLi rankings to pick Ogilvy. I just have a funny feeling that Ogilvy will made the cut and perform well this week. Singh, who is the 5th player in the CLi rankings, would love to win this tournament as he is a local Ponte Vedra Beach resident. However, he might be pushing himself too much to win the tournament because of that.

So the Tour Outsider picks for the PLAYERS Championship are:

Rank Player CLi 1 S Adam Scott 4.45 2 S Phil Mickelson 9.65 3 S Padraig Harrington 11.25 4 S Stewart Cink 14.15 5 S Geoff Ogilvy 32.80

The Tour Insider's (Dave Shedloski) picks are:

• 1 Phil Mickelson
• 2 Adam Scott
• 3 Vijay Singh
• 4 Brandt Snedeker
• 5 Anthony Kim

We have 2 players in common in this tournament: Mickelson and Scott.

 

Tour Outsider: Wachovia Championship Review

It is now time to review the picks for the Wachovia Championship to see how the results turned out.

Here are the results of the Tour Outsider (my) picks.

Rank Player CLi Rank Earnings Rd4 Rd3 Rd2 Rd1 Actual 1 S Adam Scott 5.50 8 11 66 48 $179,200 2 S Jim Furyk 6.45 7 6 3 24 $214,400 3 S Vijay Singh 7.10 17 8 8 13 $89,600 4 S Geoff Ogilvy 8.60 22 6 8 13 $66,560 5 S Phil Mickelson 9.70 12 11 25 2 $125,440

This week was good. All 5 players made the cut, and the average rank was 13.2. The worst finish for a player in the group of 5 was 22nd (Ogilvy). Not bad.

There was one thing that I missed on, and that was Anthony Kim. I specifically skipped over him in the CLi rankings and he ended up winning the tournament for his first US PGA Tour event win. Good for Kim.

Here are the results of the Tour Insider (Dave Shedloski) picks.

• 1 Adam Scott | 8 | $179,200
• 2 Vijay Singh | 17 | $89,600
• 3 Stewart Cink | 8 | $179,200
• 4 Boo Weekley | 49 | $15,795
• 5 Phil Mickelson 12 | $125,440

Here is the comparison between the Tour Outsider and Tour Insider picks.

	Tour Outsider	Tour Insider	Winner
Total Earnings	$675,000	$589,235	TO
Avg Rank	13.2	18.8	TO
Made Cut	5	5	DRAW
Outcome	--	--	TO

The Total Earnings category was won by the Tour Outsider.

The Tour Outsider won the Avg Rank category.

The Made Cut category was a draw.

This tournament overall was won by the Tour Outsider.

The overall results between the Tour Outsider and the Tour Insider year to date is, 12 wins to the Tour Outsider, 4 wins to the Tour Insider, and 4 draws.

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The CLi top 15 looked like this (see below).

Rank Player CLi Rank Earnings Rd4 Rd3 Rd2 Rd1 Actual 1 S Adam Scott 5.50 8 11 66 48 $179,200 2 S Jim Furyk 6.45 7 6 3 24 $214,400 3 S Vijay Singh 7.10 17 8 8 13 $89,600 4 S Anthony Kim 7.20 1 1 2 13 $1,152,000 5 S Geoff Ogilvy 8.60 22 6 8 13 $66,560 6 S Phil Mickelson 9.70 12 11 25 2 $125,440 7 S Stewart Cink 14.85 8 4 41 72 $179,200 8 S Lucas Glover 16.15 69 30 41 72 $12,928 9 S Steve Stricker 16.20 MC MC 104 148 $0 10 S Kevin Sutherland 16.85 MC MC 115 98 $0 11 S Trevor Immelman 22.40 MC MC 115 131 $0 12 S Nick Watney 23.20 40 18 25 72 $22,428 13 S Sergio Garcia 23.60 34 50 41 24 $32,320 14 S Billy Mayfair 23.90 55 50 18 98 $14,336 15 S Boo Weekley 27.20 49 58 25 48 $15,795

 

Tour Outsider: Wachovia Championship

Back to the east coast we go. This week the US PGA Tour is in North Carolina for the Wachovia Championship.

Let's look at the Golf CLi and see who the top 15 players are for the tournament ranked by the CLi figure.

Rank Player CLi 1 S Adam Scott 5.50 2 S Jim Furyk 6.45 3 S Vijay Singh 7.10 4 S Anthony Kim 7.20 5 S Geoff Ogilvy 8.60 6 S Phil Mickelson 9.70 7 S Stewart Cink 14.85 8 S Lucas Glover 16.15 9 S Steve Stricker 16.20 10 S Kevin Sutherland 16.85 11 S Trevor Immelman 22.40 12 S Nick Watney 23.20 13 S Sergio Garcia 23.60 14 S Billy Mayfair 23.90 15 S Boo Weekley 27.20

Wow, there are 6 players with CLis less than 10. All but one of them are experienced players. Kim is the only player in that group of 6 without a win. With Quail Hollow being a difficult course, I am going to go with the more experienced players, and so will leave Kim out of the picks this week.

So the Tour Outsider picks for the Wachovia Championship are:

Rank Player CLi 1 S Adam Scott 5.50 2 S Jim Furyk 6.45 3 S Vijay Singh 7.10 5 S Geoff Ogilvy 8.60 6 S Phil Mickelson 9.70

The Tour Insider's (Dave Shedloski) picks are:

• 1 Adam Scott
• 2 Vijay Singh
• 3 Stewart Cink
• 4 Boo Weekley
• 5 Phil Mickelson

We have 3 players in common in this tournament: Scott, Singh and Mickelson.

 

Tour Outsider: EDS Byron Nelson Championship Review

It is now time to review the picks for the EDS Byron Nelson Championship to see how the results turned out.

Here are the results of the Tour Outsider (my) picks.

Rank Player CLi Rank Earnings Rd4 Rd3 Rd2 Rd1 Actual 1 S Trevor Immelman 8.30 MC MC 150 153 $0 2 S Chad Campbell 14.10 MC MC 108 148 $0 4 S Adam Scott 15.05 1 1 1 4 $1,152,000 5 S Luke Donald 16.85 19 10 23 58 $69,600 5 S Briny Baird 18.00 13 19 23 4 $113,067

Have a winner this week in Scott, along with two other players that placed in the top twenty: Donald and Baird. That is good to see.

The negative for this week is having two players miss the cut: Immelman and Campbell. It looked like Immelman was burned out after all of his activities after winning The Masters two weeks ago.

Here are the results of the Tour Insider (Dave Shedloski) picks.

• 1 Luke Donald | 19 | $69,600
• 2 Rory Sabbatini | 97 MC | $0
• 3 Sean O'Hair | 77 MC | $0
• 4 Adam Scott | 1 | $1,152,000
• 5 Hunter Mahan | 42 | $22,400

Here is the comparison between the Tour Outsider and Tour Insider picks.

	Tour Outsider	Tour Insider	Winner
Total Earnings	$1,334,667	$1,244,000	TO
Avg Rank	58.2	47.2	TI
Made Cut	3	3	DRAW
Outcome	--	--	DRAW

The Total Earnings category was won by the Tour Outsider.

The Tour Insider won the Avg Rank category.

The Made Cut category was a draw.

This tournament overall was a draw.

The overall results between the Tour Outsider and the Tour Insider year to date is, 11 wins to the Tour Outsider, 4 wins to the Tour Insider, and 4 draws.

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The CLi top 15 looked like this (see below).

Rank Player CLi Rank Earnings Rd4 Rd3 Rd2 Rd1 Actual 1 S Trevor Immelman 8.30 MC MC 150 153 $0 2 S Chad Campbell 14.10 MC MC 108 148 $0 3 S John Merrick 14.55 MC MC 134 104 $0 4 S Adam Scott 15.05 1 1 1 4 $1,152,000 5 S Luke Donald 16.85 19 10 23 58 $69,600 6 S Briny Baird 18.00 13 19 23 4 $113,067 7 S Kevin Sutherland 25.10 7 2 10 4 $179,733 8 S Fredrik Jacobson 25.85 MC MC 77 124 $0 9 S Billy Mayfair 27.85 42 28 49 38 $22,400 10 S Sean O'Hair 28.50 MC MC 77 12 $0 11 S Anthony Kim 31.55 19 28 60 82 $69,600 12 S Tommy Armour III 31.60 50 53 15 12 $15,214 13 S Brian Davis 34.00 MC MC 142 124 $0 14 S Justin Leonard 35.60 19 28 5 38 $69,600 15 S Ken Duke 36.15 35 10 23 25 $30,217

 

Tour Outsider: EDS Byron Nelson Championship

This week the US PGA Tour heads to the Lone Star Sate (Texas) to play the EDS Byron Nelson Championship.

Let's look at the Golf CLi and see who the top 15 players are for the tournament ranked by the CLi figure.

Rank Player CLi 1 S Trevor Immelman 8.30 2 S Chad Campbell 14.10 3 S John Merrick 14.55 4 S Adam Scott 15.05 5 S Luke Donald 16.85 6 S Briny Baird 18.00