Tour Outsider: U.S. Open

The US PGA Tour hits it's second major of the year in the U.S. Open. This year the tournament being held back at Oakmont Country Club in Oakmont, PA --- just outside of Pittsburgh.

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 7.75 2 Tiger Woods 8.50 3 Sergio Garcia 13.95 4 Vijay Singh 16.85 5 Phil Mickelson 17.10 6 David Toms 17.75 7 Steve Stricker 17.95 8 Arron Oberholser 18.05 9 Stewart Cink 21.70 10 Ryuji Imada 22.30 11 K.J. Choi 23.30 12 Justin Rose 23.75 13 Sean O'Hair 25.15 14 Woody Austin 28.65 15 Geoff Ogilvy 28.65

I am going to go with the top 3 in the list: Furyk, Woods, and Garcia.

Then after that will skip down to Toms and then down to Stewart Cink.

Have a hestitation with Singh in that his driving can be wild and his putting a little off at this point in the year.

As well, with Mickelson I have a hestitation with his health (wrist). The tall, thick rough at the U.S. Open could be a problem with his ginger wrist.

For Stricker and Oberholser, they don't have a lot of history in the tournament, so it is hard to pick them at this point.

So the Tour Outsider picks for the U.S. Open Championship are:

Rank Player CLi 1 Jim Furyk 7.75 2 Tiger Woods 8.50 3 Sergio Garcia 13.95 6 David Toms 17.75 9 Stewart Cink 21.70

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

• 1 Adam Scott
• 2 Jim Furyk
• 3 Tiger Woods
• 4 Aaron Baddeley
• 5 Scott Verplank

This week we have one player in common: Jim Furyk and Tiger Woods.