Tour Outsider: Barclays Classic

The US PGA Tour goes to New York to play the first of four (4) tournaments in the FedExCup Playoffs. They will be playing the Barclays Classic at the Westchester Country Club.

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 2.55 2 Ernie Els 11.40 3 Padraig Harrington 16.20 4 Kenny Perry 16.95 5 Sergio Garcia 18.90 6 Vijay Singh 23.75 7 Scott Verplank 25.15 8 Peter Lonard 25.45 9 Tim Clark 26.85 10 Pat Perez 27.40 11 Ian Poulter 28.85 12 Jeffrey Overton 29.90 13 Billy Mayfair 32.30 14 Kevin Sutherland 33.90 15 Stuart Appleby 33.95

I will go with the top 4, and will pass over Garcia to pick Singh.

So the Tour Outsider picks for the Barclays Classic are:

Rank Player CLi 1 Jim Furyk 2.55 2 Ernie Els 11.40 3 Padraig Harrington 16.20 4 Kenny Perry 16.95 5 Vijay Singh 23.75

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

• 1 Ernie Els
• 2 Sergio Garcia
• 3 Scott Verplank
• 4 Vijay Singh
• 5 Brandt Snedeker

This week we have 2 players in common: Els and Singh.