Tour Outsider: Frys.com Open in Las Vegas

The US PGA Tour heads to Vegas for the Frys.com Open in Las Vegas.

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 Charley Hoffman 4.45 2 Bill Haas 6.55 3 Scott Verplank 10.55 4 Daniel Chopra 11.30 5 Shigeki Maruyama 17.20 6 Tim Petrovic 17.65 7 Charles Howell III 18.10 8 Nick Watney 18.70 9 Dan Forsman 19.25 10 Troy Matteson 20.50 11 Dean Wilson 21.95 12 Steve Flesch 22.10 13 Steve Lowery 23.60 14 Rich Beem 24.85 15 Bo Van Pelt 27.25

Am going with the top 4 in the CLi list. Then am going to skip over Maruyama and Petrovic to pick Howell. Feel that Howell is due. Let's hope that is good thinking.

So the Tour Outsider picks for the Frys.com Open in Las Vegas are:

Rank Player CLi 1 Charley Hoffman 4.45 2 Bill Haas 6.55 3 Scott Verplank 10.55 4 Daniel Chopra 11.30 5 Charles Howell III 18.10

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

• 1 Mike Weir
• 2 Daniel Chopra
• 4 Charley Hoffman
• 3 Jason Gore
• 5 Scott Verplank

This week we have 3 players in common: Chopra, Hoffman, and Verplank.