2007 Season Wrap-up

The 2007 US PGA Tour season is now finished. As everyone knows who reads this blog, that this year I have been competing against the Tour Insider, Dave Shedloski, in terms of player picks each week. Below are the final results for this year:

Tour Outsider:	14 Wins
Tour Insider:	11 Wins
Draws:	4

Tour Outsider: Children's Miracle Network Classic Review

It is now time to review the picks for the Children's Miracle Network Classic 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 Tim Clark 5.50 2 9 16 5 $496,800 2 Cameron Beckman 7.00 20 9 5 2 $49,833 3 Mark Calcavecchia 10.00 MC MC 117 106 $0 4 Lucas Glover 13.30 63 70 67 13 $9,568 5 Scott Verplank 15.80 3 1 1 2 $239,200

Had a winner for most of the tournament in Verplank. He was leading going into the final round, but fell back to 3rd with a final round score of 71. Tim Clark did good this week, placing 2nd. So even though Verplank didn't pull through to win, did have a 2nd and 3rd pick in Verplank and Clark.

Those picks, however, were mirrored by Shedloski this week so they were offset.

Here are the results of the Tour Insider (Dave Shedloski) picks.

• 1 Lucas Glover | 63 | $9,568
• 2 Tim Clark | 2 | $496,800
• 4 Scott Verplank | 3 | $239,200
• 3 Joe Durant | 26 | $30,025
• 5 Frank Lickliter | 78 | $8,280

Here is the comparison between the Tour Outsider and Tour Insider picks.

	Tour Outsider	Tour Insider	Winner
Total Earnings	$795,401	$858,401	TI
Avg Rank	40.8	34.4	TI
Made Cut	4	5	TI
Outcome	--	--	TI

The Tour Insider won the Total Earnings category.

The Tour Insider won the Avg Rank category.

The Made Cut category was won by the Tour Insider the sweep of all 3 categories this week.

The Tour Insider won this tournament to wrap up the US PGA Tour season.

The overall results between the Tour Outsider and the Tour Insider year to date is, 14 wins to the Tour Outsider, 11 wins to the Tour Insider, and 4 draws.

With the US PGA Tour complete for the 2007 season, I can claim this year a victory, even though I would have liked to have had more wins. Hopefully next year will be an improvement over this year as I look to refine my picks via the Golf CLi. Until January 2008, enjoy the rest of 2007.

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The CLi top 15 looked like this (see below).

Rank Player CLi Rank Earnings Rd4 Rd3 Rd2 Rd1 Actual 1 Tim Clark 5.50 2 9 16 5 $496,800 2 Cameron Beckman 7.00 20 9 5 2 $49,833 3 Mark Calcavecchia 10.00 MC MC 117 106 $0 4 Lucas Glover 13.30 63 70 67 13 $9,568 5 Scott Verplank 15.80 3 1 1 2 $239,200 6 Ryan Moore 16.35 41 31 25 44 $14,561 7 Jesper Parnevik 16.35 26 41 35 44 $30,025 8 Stewart Cink 16.85 13 9 16 27 $92,000 9 Marco Dawson 17.25 70 77 67 72 $9,062 10 Heath Slocum 18.20 9 8 16 13 $119,600 11 Briny Baird 18.75 83 77 58 106 $7,912 12 Daniel Chopra 20.00 52 47 58 93 $10,672 13 Bill Haas 20.05 MC MC 95 93 $0 14 Sean O'Hair 20.45 15 41 5 13 $73,600 15 Nick Watney 21.70 9 31 16 13 $119,600

Tour Outsider: Children's Miracle Network Classic

The US PGA Tour heads to Disney World for the Children's Miracle Network Classic. It is the last regular season event for the US PGA Tour, and the last event that I will be making picks until 2008 rolls around.

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 Tim Clark 5.50 2 Cameron Beckman 7.00 3 Mark Calcavecchia 10.00 4 Lucas Glover 13.30 5 Scott Verplank 15.80 6 Ryan Moore 16.35 7 Jesper Parnevik 16.35 8 Stewart Cink 16.85 9 Marco Dawson 17.25 10 Heath Slocum 18.20 11 Briny Baird 18.75 12 Daniel Chopra 20.00 13 Bill Haas 20.05 14 Sean O'Hair 20.45 15 Nick Watney 21.70

I will stick with the top 5 in the CLi rankings to make it simple this week, even though I would have liked to have dipped down to the 6th player in the list: Ryan Moore. Maybe next time. Just will keep it simple this week.

So the Tour Outsider picks for the Children's Miracle Network Classic:

Rank Player CLi 1 Tim Clark 5.50 2 Cameron Beckman 7.00 3 Mark Calcavecchia 10.00 4 Lucas Glover 13.30 5 Scott Verplank 15.80

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

• 1 Lucas Glover
• 2 Tim Clark
• 3 Scott Verplank
• 4 Joe Durant
• 5 Frank Lickliter

This week we have three players in common: Glover, Clark, and Verplank.