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