Here is another quick post to try to publish my picks for this week's tournament before the first ball is hit.
For the Children's Miracle Network Classic in Florida, my 5 picks are:
Note: I still plan on going back and updating the posts over the last couple of weeks and getting caught up on the results between myself and Shedloski. I am just behind the eight ball in all of the stuff I am doing at the moment.
...and another week has passed and I am still behind in my posts :-(
The only good thing over the past week in terms of my late posts is that I am still getting my picks posted before the tournament starts each week.
Here are my picks for this week's Ginn sur Mer Classic:
I am continuing to fall behind. So am going to do a short post again for my picks for this week's tournament: Frys.com Open. Then hopefully I will be able to get back on track in the near future.
My 5 picks for this week are:
Am in a hurry at the moment, so am going to do a short post initially for posting my picks for the this week's tournament: Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospital Open. Then will come back and beef up the post later in the week.
My 5 picks for this week are:
It is now time to review the picks for the Valero Texas Open to see how the results turned out.
Here are the results of the Tour Outsider (my) picks.
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4 players made the cut, with Goggin the only player that missed the cut in my picks. It is interesting that he missed the cut as he was playing well leading up to the tournament.
Here are the results of the Tour Insider (Dave Shedloski) picks.
Here is the comparison between the Tour Outsider and Tour Insider picks.
| Tour Outsider | Tour Insider | Winner | |
| Total Earnings | $165,994 | $261,588 | TI |
| Avg Rank | 37.8 | 38.4 | TO |
| Made Cut | 4 | 4 | DRAW |
| Outcome | -- | -- | DRAW |
The Total Earnings category was won by the Tour Insider.
The Avg Rank category was won by the Tour Outsider.
The Made Cut category was a draw.
This tournament overall was won a draw.
The overall results between the Tour Outsider and the Tour Insider year to date is, 18 wins to the Tour Outsider, 16 wins to the Tour Insider, and 7 draws.
The CLi top 15 looked like this (see below).
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This is week the US PGA Tour heads to the big state of Texas to play the Valero Texas Open.
Let's look at the Golf CLi and see who the top 15 players are for the tournament ranked by the CLi figure.
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Looking at the Golf CLi rankings, there is a huge gap in the CLi figure between the 1st and 2nd players. I have only seen that big of a gap when Tiger Woods is playing in a tournament. So this is unusual. It also tell me that one would be foolish in this tournament to bet against Justin Leonard (the player sitting atop the CLi rankings this week). So I won't be foolish. I will pick Leonard as my first pick this week.
As for the other 4 picks, that is a little more difficult. The CLis jump to close to 20 after Leonard. That tells me that the CLi doesn't think there is any real pattern to be found in the historical results. So I will pick manually from the remaining 14 players to see if my knowledge is better than the CLi's knowledge this week.
I will pick Goggin, Campbell (a Texan, that likes playing in his home state), David Toms, and then Joe Ogilvie (who lives just down the round from San Antonio, in Austin). Let's hope having 3 home-staters on the team will bode well this week.
So the Tour Outsider picks for the Valero Texas Open are:
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The Tour Insider's (Dave Shedloski) picks are:
We have 2 players in common in this tournament: Leonard and Campbell. It looks like Shedloski is going with a Texas flavor as well, along with Leonard and Campbell having connections to Texas, so does Sabbatini (lives in the Dallas-Forth Worth area) and Beem (lives in near by Austin).
It is now time to review the picks for the Turning Stone Resort Championship to see how the results turned out.
Here are the results of the Tour Outsider (my) picks.
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There are only 4 players in the list above. My 5th pick, Dudley Hart, withdrew from the tournament before the tournament started. That will give him a missed cut and a ranking of 132nd. Ouch.
On the bright side, I did have two players that finished in the top 5: Goggin and Allan.
Here are the results of the Tour Insider (Dave Shedloski) picks.
Here is the comparison between the Tour Outsider and Tour Insider picks.
| Tour Outsider | Tour Insider | Winner | |
| Total Earnings | $515,768 | $713,440 | TI |
| Avg Rank | 50.4 | 44.8 | TI |
| Made Cut | 4 | 4 | DRAW |
| Outcome | -- | -- | TI |
The Total Earnings category was won by the Tour Insider.
The Avg Rank category was won by the Tour Insider.
The Made Cut category was a draw.
This tournament overall was won by the Tour Insider.
The overall results between the Tour Outsider and the Tour Insider year to date is, 18 wins to the Tour Outsider, 16 wins to the Tour Insider, and 6 draws.
The CLi top 15 looked like this (see below).
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This is week the US PGA Tour is playing it's first official Fall Classic event: Turning Stone Resort Championship.
Let's look at the Golf CLi and see who the top 15 players are for the tournament ranked by the CLi figure.
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The Golf CLi shows now CLi figures less than 10. So that basically is telling me that the CLi calculation has a less of a chance of predicting who will play well this week. That is not good for me, as I use the CLi. In any event, that is what I have to go off of, and the CLi actually is a better predictor than most on average. Therefore, I need to trust it even in this case.
I will go with the top two players in the CLi: Googin and Hart. Then will skip over Bill Haas to pick Steve Flesch.
For my fourth pick, I will make a risky pick in Steve Allan. He has played well in this tournament in the past, albeit when the tournament was at a different course. He played well in the Viking Classic two weeks ago, placing 4th. However, he has been playing the Nationwide Tour for the most part of this year. Hopefully this week he will continue his good play in at the top tour level.
Then I will skip down to Carl Pettersson for my last week.
So the Tour Outsider picks for the Turning Stone Resort Championship are:
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The Tour Insider's (Dave Shedloski) picks are:
We have 2 players in common in this tournament: Flesch and Pettersson.
It is now time to review the picks for the TOUR Championship to see how the results turned out.
Here are the results of the Tour Outsider (my) picks.
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A good week in that I had a 1st and 2nd finish with Villegas and Garcia. However, since Shedloski and I had 4 players the same, the difference will come down to the difference between Mahan and Campbell.
Here are the results of the Tour Insider (Dave Shedloski) picks.
Here is the comparison between the Tour Outsider and Tour Insider picks.
| Tour Outsider | Tour Insider | Winner | |
| Total Earnings | $2,520,000 | $2,508,800 | TO |
| Avg Rank | 9.6 | 10.6 | TO |
| Made Cut | 5 | 5 | DRAW |
| Outcome | -- | -- | TO |
The Total Earnings category was won by the Tour Outsider.
The Avg Rank category was won by the Tour Outsider.
The Made Cut category was a draw.
This tournament overall was won by the Tour Outsider. The difference was Mahan playing one shot better than Campbell.
The overall results between the Tour Outsider and the Tour Insider year to date is, 18 wins to the Tour Outsider, 15 wins to the Tour Insider, and 6 draws.
The CLi top 15 looked like this (see below).
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