Tour Outsider: Deutsch Bank U.S. Championship

The US PGA Tour heads to Boston for the 2nd of 4 FedExCup playoff tournaments. The Deutsch Bank U.S. Championship has a Friday start with a Monday (Labor Day) finish

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 Tiger Woods 1.80 2 Justin Rose 8.40 3 Tim Petrovic 16.40 4 Steve Flesch 18.00 6 K.J. Choi 21.30 7 Adam Scott 21.60 8 Geoff Ogilvy 22.30 9 Tim Clark 22.90 10 Steve Stricker 25.20 11 Billy Mayfair 27.90 12 Camilo Villegas 27.90 13 Carl Pettersson 28.30 14 Jeffrey Overton 29.50 15 Arron Oberholser 30.40

All of the players in the top 15 look good this week in the CLi list. It is hard to narrow it down to just 5 from the 15 shown. Tough.

I guess I will go with Woods and Rose, as they have very low CLis for the tournament. Woods has a 1.8 CLi and Rose has a 8.40. That is basically saying that they really are looking good to play well here this week.

Then I will skip Petrovic, even though he is playing well. One of the reasons I skipped him is that he didn't play well here last year missing the cut. He played well here the previous two years, and he is playing well currently. That makes it hard to skip over him.

I will pick Flesch as he is looking good curently, and has played well here in the past.

I will skip over Furyk as he is a question mark with his back issues.

Then will pick Choi (who is playing extremely well of late) and Scott (who plays well on this course).

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

Rank Player CLi 1 Tiger Woods 1.80 2 Justin Rose 8.40 3 Steve Flesch 18.00 4 K.J. Choi 21.30 5 Adam Scott 21.60

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

• 1 Tiger Woods
• 2 Retief Goosen
• 3 Adam Scott
• 4 K.J. Choi
• 5 Stephen Ames

This week we have 3 players in common: Woods, Scott, and Choi.