The US PGA Tour moves from their headquarters in northern Florida (TPC at Sawgrass) to another TPC course in Georgia: TPC at Sugar Loaf. The tournament this week is the AT&T Classic. The tournament was formerly called the BellSouth Classic before AT&T decided to put all the baby bells back in the AT&T fold. As with last week's PLAYERS Championship, this tournament has moved dates from last year to be after the Masters. Usually the tournament is played the week before the Masters.
Let's look at the Golf CLi and see who the top 15 players are for the tournament ranked by the CLi figure.
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Jacobson and Byrd look like two good picks from the CLi list.
I will pass on Bolli. He is high in the CLi rankings for this tournament as he has placed 2nd two of the past 3 Nationwide Tour events he has played in. I do not know how he will play on the US PGA Tour stage.
Cink is always a good pick for this tournament as this is his home course.
Tway has been playing solidly, but I do not have a good feeling he will play well at Sugar Loaf this week. So I will pass on him.
Johnson plays well at Sugar Loaf and in the state of Georgia in general (i.e. the Masters winner this year).
Imada could play well this week, however, I am not comfortable in picking him.
Like the other veteran in the list, Tway, Steve Elkington has been playing well of late. I fell confident in picking him this week. I just hope he does not decide to pull out of the tournament, as he might do so after having played a tough week at Sawgrass this past week.
So the Tour Outsider picks for the AT&T Classic are:
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The Tour Insider's (Dave Shedloski) picks are:
- 1 Stewart Cink
- 2 Tim Clark
- 3 Chris DiMarco
- 4 J.J. Henry
- 5 Zach Johnson
The week we have two players in common: Stewart Cink and Zach Johnson.
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