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.