Tour Outsider: Bridgestone Invitational

The US PGA Tour is in Akron, Ohio this week to play the Bridgestone Invitational.

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 Jim Furyk 4.85 2 Tiger Woods 5.25 3 Vijay Singh 8.50 4 Angel Cabrera 14.25 5 Stewart Cink 17.65 6 David Toms 18.10 7 Rory Sabbatini 18.75 8 Colin Montgomerie 18.85 9 Justin Rose 19.25 10 Kenny Perry 20.30 11 Sergio Garcia 21.80 12 J.J. Henry 24.70 13 Luke Donald 24.75 14 Ian Poulter 24.80 15 K.J. Choi 24.90

Furyk, Woods, and Singh all look like good picks for the tournament as they play well on the Firestone course. Not sure about Cabrera on this course, so will pass on him. Then will pick Cink and Toms to round my five picks.

So the Tour Outsider picks for the Bridgestone Invitational are:

Rank Player CLi 1 Jim Furyk 4.85 2 Tiger Woods 5.25 3 Vijay Singh 8.50 4 Stewart Cink 17.65 5 David Toms 18.10

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

• 1 Tiger Woods
• 2 Jim Furyk
• 3 Hunter Mahan
• 4 Phil Mickelson
• 5 Paul Casey

This week we have 2 players in common: Woods and Furyk.

 

Tour Outsider: Canadian Open Review

It is now time to review the picks for the Canadian Open 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 Jim Furyk 3.35 1 5 7 35 $900,000 2 Hunter Mahan 15.25 5 4 11 1 $190,000 3 Vijay Singh 16.20 2 1 3 18 $540,000 4 Mike Weir 22.65 34 27 65 65 $23,667 5 Pat Perez 24.00 10 5 27 18 $115,000

This week was nice. Picked a winner (Furyk), and had 3 players in the top 5 and 4 players in the top 10.

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

• 1 Jim Furyk | 1 | $900,000
• 2 Mike Weir | 34 | $23,667
• 3 John Rollins | 79 (MC) | $0
• 4 Vijay Singh | 2 | $540,000
• 5 Steve Flesch | 50 | $11,813

Shedloski had a winner and a 2nd place this week. However, he did have 1 player miss the cut.

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

	Tour Ousider	Tour Insider	Winner
Total Earnings	$1,768,667	$1,475,480	TO
Avg Rank	10.4	33.2	TO
Made Cut	5	4	TO
Outcome	--	--	TO

The Tour Outsider won the Total Earnings category.

The Tour Outsider won the Avg Rank category.

The Tour Outsider won the Made Cut category.

This tournament was won by the Tour Outsider.

The overall results between the Tour Outsider and the Tour Insider to date is, 9 wins to the Tour Outsider, 3 wins to the Tour Insider, and 3 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 Jim Furyk 3.35 1 5 7 35 $900,000 2 Hunter Mahan 15.25 5 4 11 1 $190,000 3 Vijay Singh 16.20 2 1 3 18 $540,000 4 Mike Weir 22.65 34 27 65 65 $23,667 5 Pat Perez 24.00 10 5 27 18 $115,000 6 Jeff Sluman 24.30 34 33 20 80 $23,667 7 Troy Matteson 24.90 66 14 27 10 $10,200 8 Jay Williamson 26.55 MC MC 127 80 $0 9 Steve Flesch 26.70 50 52 65 80 $11,813 10 Justin Leonard 27.20 58 44 65 35 $10,850 11 Nathan Green 27.50 MC MC 91 35 $0 12 Joe Ogilvie 27.90 MC MC 127 99 $0 13 Steve Allan 28.45 7 2 1 2 $155,833 14 Billy Andrade 28.80 22 44 11 35 $48,000 15 Bob Tway 32.90 31 14 51 35 $31,000

Note: Neal Lancaster was in the original CLi list. However, he withdrew from the tournament. That is why you do not see him in the CLi list above.

 

Tour Outsider: Canadian Open

The US PGA Tour comes back across the big pond (the Atlantic Ocean) after playing the British Open last week to go north of the US border to play the Canadian Open.

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 Jim Furyk 3.35 2 Hunter Mahan 15.25 3 Vijay Singh 16.20 4 Mike Weir 22.65 5 Neal Lancaster 23.20 6 Pat Perez 24.00 7 Jeff Sluman 24.30 8 Troy Matteson 24.90 9 Jay Williamson 26.55 10 Steve Flesch 26.70 11 Justin Leonard 27.20 12 Nathan Green 27.50 13 Joe Ogilvie 27.90 14 Steve Allan 28.45 15 Billy Andrade 28.80

The top 4 players are looking good in this list: Furyk, Mahan, Singh, and Weir. It would be nice to see Weir win it for Canada. Hopefully he plays well this week and doesn't put too much pressure on himself to win the tournament.

As for the 5th pick, I will go with Pat Perez. He is playing well of late, however, a little sporatic. If he can play well in the first round, he should finish well in the tournament. Hopefully he doesn't do a WD, which he has become accustom to doing when he starts a tournament off badly.

So the Tour Outsider picks for the Canadian Open are:

Rank Player CLi 1 Jim Furyk 3.35 2 Hunter Mahan 15.25 3 Vijay Singh 16.20 4 Mike Weir 22.65 6 Pat Perez 24.00

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

• 1 Jim Furyk
• 2 Mike Weir
• 3 John Rollins
• 4 Vijay Singh
• 5 Steve Flesch

This week we have 3 players in common: Furyk, Weir, and Singh.

 

Tour Outsider: British Open Review

It is now time to review the picks for the British Open 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 Tiger Woods 5.40 12 15 20 8 $119,455 2 Scott Verplank 13.50 57 45 42 39 $22,026 3 Vijay Singh 13.70 27 10 20 39 $57,470 4 K.J. Choi 20.30 8 3 2 8 $193,241 5 Niclas Fasth 26.10 35 45 31 104 $41,008

Had 1 top 10, and all 5 players made the cut, which works out nice for a major tournament like the British Open. However, looks like several of the players that I passed over to pick Niclas Fasth did better than Fasth, including Els (placed 4th) and Furyk (placed 12th). Also the CLi did well in predicting Hunter Mahan playing well. He finished 6th.

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

• 1 Tiger Woods | 12 | $119,455
• 2 Jim Furyk | 12 | $119,455
• 3 Angel Cabrera | 34 | $48,948
• 4 Phil Mickelson | 81 (MC) | $5,405
• 5 Colin Montgomerie | 71 (MC) | $6,526

Shedloski saw 2 of his picks miss the cut. They, however, still earned some money, as the British Open pays players even if they miss the cut.

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

	Tour Ousider	Tour Insider	Winner
Total Earnings	$433,200	$299,789	TO
Avg Rank	27.8	42.0	TO
Made Cut	5	3	TO
Outcome	--	--	TO

The Tour Outsider won the Total Earnings category.

The Tour Outsider won the Avg Rank category.

The Tour Outsider won the Made Cut category.

This tournament was won by the Tour Outsider.

The overall results between the Tour Outsider and the Tour Insider to date is, 8 wins to the Tour Outsider, 3 wins to the Tour Insider, and 3 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 Tiger Woods 5.40 12 15 20 8 $119,455 2 Scott Verplank 13.50 57 45 42 39 $22,026 3 Vijay Singh 13.70 27 10 20 39 $57,470 4 Loren Roberts 16.10 MC MC 91 78 $5,405 5 Phil Mickelson 16.20 MC MC 81 25 $5,405 6 K.J. Choi 20.30 8 3 2 8 $193,241 7 Colin Montgomerie 20.30 MC MC 71 60 $6,526 8 Jim Furyk 20.70 12 10 5 13 $119,455 9 Carl Pettersson 22.70 45 50 42 13 $29,572 10 Ernie Els 23.30 4 3 13 39 $407,896 11 Hunter Mahan 23.60 6 31 53 60 $296,745 12 Sean O'Hair 25.40 67 63 53 25 $20,089 13 Niclas Fasth 26.10 35 45 31 104 $41,008 14 David Toms 26.10 MC MC 81 25 $5,405 15 Tom Lehman 28.90 52 63 53 60 $24,729

 

Tour Outsider: British Open

The US PGA Tour goes across the big pond (the Atlantic Ocean) for the 3rd major of the year: The British Open.

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 Tiger Woods 5.40 2 Scott Verplank 13.50 3 Vijay Singh 13.70 4 Loren Roberts 16.10 5 Phil Mickelson 16.20 6 K.J. Choi 20.30 7 Colin Montgomerie 20.30 8 Jim Furyk 20.70 9 Carl Pettersson 22.70 10 Ernie Els 23.30 11 Hunter Mahan 23.60 12 Sean O'Hair 25.40 13 Niclas Fasth 26.10 14 David Toms 26.10 15 Tom Lehman 28.90

There are some nice players in this list. So it is hard to pass up on some of the big boys, however, I am going to.

I am going to pick the 3 top players in the CLi list. Then after that am going to skip down to K.J. Choi and then down to Fasth for my last two picks. Choi is playing well, having won 2 of the last two tournaments he has played in. Fasth has been playing well too, including on the hard Oakmont Country Club course last month in the U.S. Open.

That means I am passing up on Mickelson, Montgomerie, Furyk and Els to name a few of the big boys in the list which I didn't pick.

So the Tour Outsider picks for the British Open are:

Rank Player CLi 1 Tiger Woods 5.40 2 Scott Verplank 13.50 3 Vijay Singh 13.70 4 K.J. Choi 20.30 5 Niclas Fasth 26.10

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

• 1 Tiger Woods
• 2 Jim Furyk
• 3 Angel Cabrera
• 4 Phil Mickelson
• 5 Colin Montgomerie

It is interesting that Shedloski picked Angel Cabrera to play well at the British Open after having won at Oakmont last month in the U.S. Open. If Cabrera wins the British after winning the U.S., then that would be a feat in and of itself for European golf as he plays most of his golf on the European PGA Tour.

This week we have 1 player in common: Tiger Woods.

 

Tour Outsider: John Deere Classic Review

It is now time to review the picks for the John Deere Classic 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 Bernhard Langer 5.65 32 42 62 95 $21,274 2 Chris Riley 10.90 54 59 48 95 $9,430 4 Billy Mayfair 15.85 11 6 10 33 $90,200 5 Jason Gore 17.20 62 71 23 33 $8,692 9 D.J. Trahan 23.15 32 23 10 9 $21,274

All 5 players made the cut, which is nice. However, did not have a pick in the top 10, which has been unusual of late.

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

• 1 John Senden | 146 (MC) | $0
• 2 J.P. Hayes | 15 | $69,700
• 3 Jason Gore | 62 | $8,692
• 4 Zach Johnson | 73 (MC) | $0
• 5 Carl Pettersson | 5 | $164,000

Shedloski saw 2 of his picks miss the cut.

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

	Tour Ousider	Tour Insider	Winner
Total Earnings	$150,871	$242,392	TI
Avg Rank	38.2	60.2	TO
Made Cut	5	3	TO
Outcome	--	--	TO

The Tour insider won the Total Earnings category.

The Tour Outsider won the Avg Rank category.

The Tour Outsider won the Made Cut category.

This tournament was won by the Tour Outsider.

The overall results between the Tour Outsider and the Tour Insider to date is, 7 wins to the Tour Outsider, 3 wins to the Tour Insider, and 3 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 Bernhard Langer 5.65 32 42 62 95 $21,274 2 Chris Riley 10.90 54 59 48 95 $9,430 3 Jeffrey Overton 15.65 41 18 17 56 $13,594 4 Billy Mayfair 15.85 11 6 10 33 $90,200 5 Jason Gore 17.20 62 71 23 33 $8,692 6 Alexander Cejka 19.80 WD WD 23 21 $0 7 Heath Slocum 21.95 6 23 48 56 $128,330 8 Carl Pettersson 22.55 5 6 2 9 $164,000 9 D.J. Trahan 23.15 32 23 10 9 $21,274 10 Kevin Stadler 23.50 MC MC 110 33 $0 11 Stephen Leaney 24.05 15 18 37 33 $69,700 12 Pat Perez 24.75 MC MC 89 56 $0 13 Shigeki Maruyama 24.95 MC MC 130 95 $0 14 Joe Ogilvie 28.40 57 59 48 76 $9,102 15 Bubba Watson 30.80 DQ DQ DQ 117 $0

 

Tour Outsider: John Deere Classic

[ Note: This post is late. Usually this post was suppose to be published on Monday of this week. However, I have been behind schedule all of this week. So am publishing this post on Thursday evening. ]

The US PGA Tour goes from the nation's capital (Washington D.C.) to the heart of the mid-west for the John Deere Classic.

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 Bernhard Langer 5.65 2 Chris Riley 10.90 3 Jeffrey Overton 15.65 4 Billy Mayfair 15.85 5 Jason Gore 17.20 6 Alexander Cejka 19.80 7 Heath Slocum 21.95 8 Carl Pettersson 22.55 9 D.J. Trahan 23.15 10 Kevin Stadler 23.50 11 Stephen Leaney 24.05 12 Pat Perez 24.75 13 Shigeki Maruyama 24.95 14 Joe Ogilvie 28.40 15 Bubba Watson 30.80

Since I am late in publishing this post this week, am not going to provide an explanation for my picks. Am just going to list them (see below).

So the Tour Outsider picks for the John Deere Classic are:

Rank Player CLi 1 Bernhard Langer 5.65 2 Chris Riley 10.90 3 Billy Mayfair 15.85 4 Jason Gore 17.20 5 D.J. Trahan 23.15

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

• 1 John Senden
• 2 J.P. Hayes
• 3 Jason Gore
• 4 Zach Johnson
• 5 Carl Pettersson

This week we have 1 player in common: Jason Gore.

 

Tour Outsider: AT&T National Review

It is now time to review the picks for the AT&T National 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 Nick O'Hern 5.90 MC MC 117 109 $0 2 Brian Davis 10.60 30 12 12 17 $33,420 3 Jim Furyk 14.30 3 8 18 1 $312,000 4 Vijay Singh 16.95 12 21 6 1 $110,571 5 Adam Scott 17.15 MC MC 98 63 $0

Ouch, O'Hern didn't play so well. He actually came in 4th to last out of a 120 player field, which is very uncharacteristic of him. As well, Adam Scott decided to miss another cut. Two ouches.

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

• 1 Adam Scott | 98 (MC) | $0
• 2 Rory Sabbatini | 120 (DNS) | $0
• 3 Aaron Baddeley | 69 | $12,120
• 4 Tiger Woods | 6 | $208,500
• 5 Olin Browne | 30 | $33,420

Shedloski also got hit by two player: Scott missing the cut and Sabbatini not in the tournament field.

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

	Tour Ousider	Tour Insider	Winner
Total Earnings	$455,991	$254,040	TO
Avg Rank	52.0	64.6	TO
Made Cut	3	3	DRAW
Outcome	--	--	TO

The Tour Outsider won the Total Earnings category.

The Tour Outsider won the Avg Rank category.

The Made Cut category was a draw with both having all 2 players miss the cut.

This tournament was won by the Tour Outsider.

The overall results between the Tour Outsider and the Tour Insider to date is, 6 wins to the Tour Outsider, 3 wins to the Tour Insider, and 3 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 Nick O'Hern 5.90 MC MC 117 109 $0 2 Brian Davis 10.60 30 12 12 17 $33,420 3 Jim Furyk 14.30 3 8 18 1 $312,000 4 Vijay Singh 16.95 12 21 6 1 $110,571 5 Adam Scott 17.15 MC MC 98 63 $0 6 Hunter Mahan 17.30 8 47 61 29 $168,000 7 Jerry Kelly 17.90 45 36 12 45 $16,515 8 Fred Funk 17.95 62 71 61 6 $12,900 9 Woody Austin 20.30 MC MC 113 93 $0 10 Fredrik Jacobson 20.70 40 41 6 13 $23,400 11 Bo Van Pelt 21.00 54 41 26 29 $13,635 12 Tim Herron 23.85 54 62 61 45 $13,635 13 Justin Leonard 25.60 25 47 48 77 $46,800 14 Brian Gay 25.75 30 21 26 45 $33,420 15 Billy Andrade 27.80 19 12 3 13 $70,200

 

Tour Outsider: AT&T National

The US PGA Tour goes to the nation's capital, Washington D.C. for "Tiger's tournament": the AT&T National. This tournament is taking the place of The International (Colorado), which was canceled for various reasons (do your research to find out why).

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 Nick O'Hern 5.90 2 Brian Davis 10.60 3 Jim Furyk 14.30 4 Vijay Singh 16.95 5 Adam Scott 17.15 6 Hunter Mahan 17.30 7 Jerry Kelly 17.90 8 Fred Funk 17.95 9 Woody Austin 20.30 10 Fredrik Jacobson 20.70 11 Bo Van Pelt 21.00 12 Tim Herron 23.85 13 Justin Leonard 25.60 14 Brian Gay 25.75 15 Billy Andrade 27.80

As with last week, I am going to stick with the top 5 of the CLi.

So the Tour Outsider picks for the AT&T National are:

Rank Player CLi 1 Nick O'Hern 5.90 2 Brian Davis 10.60 3 Jim Furyk 14.30 4 Vijay Singh 16.95 5 Adam Scott 17.15

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

• 1 Adam Scott
• 2 Rory Sabbatini
• 3 Aaron Baddeley
• 4 Tiger Woods
• 5 Olin Browne

This week we have 1 player in common: Adam Scott.

What is interesting about Shedloski's picks is that he has included Rory Sabbatini, who, as I can tell so far, is not in the tournament's field.

 

Tour Outsider: Buick Open Review

It is now time to review the picks for the Buick Open 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 Jim Furyk 3.25 5 5 1 5 $166,110 2 Kenny Perry 5.95 10 5 1 73 $108,617 3 Scott Verplank 7.90 5 2 4 5 $166,110 4 Sean O'Hair 10.25 27 32 57 73 $33,320 5 Woody Austin 11.85 2 5 7 2 $365,867

This week was rather good. All 5 picks made the cut, and better yet, all but 1 were in the top 10...O'Hair placed 27th. The only thing missing was picking the player who won. However, it would have been difficult to predict that Brian Bateman would win his first tournament this week. Good for him. He played college golf at LSU when I was on the SMU golf team. As well, we played in AJGA tournaments as junior golfers. It is good to see him be able to make the 12-foot putt on the last to close the deal.

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

• 1 Jim Furyk | 5 | $166,110
• 2 Sean O'Hair | 27 | $33,320
• 3 Scott Verplank | 5 | $166,110
• 4 Jason Gore | 2 | $365,867
• 5 John Daly | 16 | $75,950

Gore was a nice pick for Shedloski. Gore closed with a 66 in the final round to move up 13 spots and earn a 2nd place finish.

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

	Tour Ousider	Tour Insider	Winner
Total Earnings	$840,023	$807,357	TO
Avg Rank	9.8	11.0	TO
Made Cut	5	5	DRAW
Outcome	--	--	TO

The Tour Outsider won the Total Earnings category by only $33,000. It was a close running in this category.

The Tour Outsider won the Avg Rank category by a small margin of 1.2. Again, another close category this week.

The Made Cut category was a draw with both having all of their picks make the cut. Nice week for the picks.

It was a close running this week which made it fun to watch. This tournament was won by the Tour Outsider.

The overall results between the Tour Outsider and the Tour Insider to date is, 5 wins to the Tour Outsider, 3 win to the Tour Insider, and 3 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 Jim Furyk 3.25 5 5 1 5 $166,110 2 Kenny Perry 5.95 10 5 1 73 $108,617 3 Scott Verplank 7.90 5 2 4 5 $166,110 4 Sean O'Hair 10.25 27 32 57 73 $33,320 5 Woody Austin 11.85 2 5 7 2 $365,867 6 Richard S Johnson 13.10 MC MC 136 99 $0 7 Fred Funk 14.85 20 24 46 46 $51,100 8 Brian Gay 16.50 64 67 57 24 $10,143 9 Jeffrey Overton 24.75 MC MC 114 73 $0 10 Charles Warren 24.90 MC MC 84 119 $0 11 Heath Slocum 25.20 MC MC 84 119 $0 12 J.J. Henry 25.85 MC MC 97 73 $0 13 Bob Tway 28.40 27 67 57 46 $33,320 14 Stephen Leaney 30.00 20 15 20 24 $51,100 15 Billy Andrade 30.50 49 40 10 13 $12,381

 

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