Tour Outsider: Mercedes-Benz Championship Review

It is now time to review the picks for the Mercedes-Benz Championship 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 Jim Furyk 4.00 5 6 17 16 $218,000 2 Vijay Singh 5.80 12 10 17 16 $130,000 3 Mike Weir 6.70 4 1 1 6 $310,000 4 Zach Johnson 6.90 20 16 13 26 $81,000 5 Stephen Ames 7.60 3 5 2 8 $410,000

Picking Weir looked like a winner when he was leading heading into the final round. However, he could not hang on to make it to the playoff with Daniel Chopra and Steve Stricker --- Chopra ended up winning the playoff over Stricker.

In any event, having 3 players in the top 5 with Ames, Weir and Furyk made for a good week in this limited field event.

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

• 1 Vijay Singh | 12 | $130,000
• 2 Jim Furyk | 5 | $218,000
• 4 Scott Verplank | 18 | $86,000
• 3 Chad Champbell | 12 | $130,000
• 5 Rory Sabbatini | 17 | $90,000

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

	Tour Outsider	Tour Insider	Winner
Total Earnings	$1,149,000	$654,000	TO
Avg Rank	8.8	12.8	TO
Made Cut	5	5	DRAW
Outcome	--	--	TO

The Tour Outsider won the Total Earnings category.

The Tour Outsider won the Avg Rank category.

Since there was not a cut in this tournament, and no players withdrew, the Made Cut category was a draw.

The Tour Outsider won this tournament to start the 2008 season.

The overall results between the Tour Outsider and the Tour Insider year to date is, 1 win to the Tour Outsider, 0 wins to the Tour Insider, and 0 draws.

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

Rank Player CLi Rank Earnings Rd4 Rd3 Rd2 Rd1 Actual 1 Jim Furyk 4.00 5 6 17 16 $218,000 2 Vijay Singh 5.80 12 10 17 16 $130,000 3 Justin Leonard 6.00 8 6 6 11 $175,000 4 Woody Austin 6.10 18 22 25 11 $86,000 5 Mike Weir 6.70 4 1 1 6 $310,000 6 Zach Johnson 6.90 20 16 13 26 $81,000 7 Stephen Ames 7.60 3 5 2 8 $410,000 8 Aaron Baddeley 8.70 12 16 6 3 $130,000 9 Mark Calcavecchia 11.20 10 13 6 21 $155,000 10 Fred Funk 11.40 25 24 21 21 $72,000 11 Rory Sabbatini 12.20 17 19 21 8 $90,000 12 Charles Howell III 12.40 8 13 17 16 $175,000 13 K.J. Choi 14.60 28 30 29 29 $67,500 14 Steve Stricker 14.70 2 6 11 11 $630,000 15 Jonathan Byrd 14.80 15 3 2 3 $105,000