Tour Outsider: Travelers Championship

The US PGA Tour goes to the Connecticut for the Travelers Championship, formerly called the Buick Championship, and before that called the Greater Hartford 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 Ryan Moore 5.40 2 Woody Austin 8.60 3 Stewart Cink 12.50 4 Kenny Perry 13.15 5 Tim Herron 15.55 6 Peter Lonard 20.55 7 Heath Slocum 23.35 8 Jerry Kelly 23.95 9 Brian Davis 26.50 10 Rod Pampling 27.85 11 Vijay Singh 29.00 12 Zach Johnson 29.10 13 Justin Rose 32.35 14 D.J. Trahan 33.80 15 Will MacKenzie 34.00

I am going to go with the top 3 in the list: Moore, Austin, and Cink. Even though Cink missed the cut last week in the U.S. Open, he is playing well. My only question in picking him is if he might withdraw, as he is getting a little tired with his all of the tournaments he has played in of late.

I will skip Kenny Perry. He has been playing better lately, especially in the Memorial tournament several weeks ago. However, I just don't know which Perry will show up this tournament. Will it be the "shooting low" Perry, or the "hang on to try to make the cut" Perry.

Herron is playing well, but want to go down the list further and pick Lonard and Kelly. Lonard has been playing well for the past couple of months, and Kelly went to the University of Hartford. So he knows this town and the tournament well. Hartford is like his second home.

So the Tour Outsider picks for the Travelers Championship are:

Rank Player CLi 1 Ryan Moore 5.40 2 Woody Austin 8.60 3 Stewart Cink 12.50 4 Peter Lonard 20.55 5 Jerry Kelly 23.95

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

• 1 Carl Pettersson
• 2 Arron Oberholser
• 3 Kenny Perry
• 4 David Toms
• 5 J.J. Henry

This week we have no players in common.