Tour Outsider: Sony Open in Hawaii

The US PGA Tour stays in Hawaii this week for the Sony Open.

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 Steve Stricker 3.00 2 Vijay Singh 4.60 3 Charles Howell III 8.20 4 Stephen Ames 8.55 5 Jim Furyk 9.30 6 Bubba Watson 11.75 7 Jerry Kelly 12.40 8 Aaron Baddeley 13.70 9 Boo Weekley 15.20 10 George McNeill 15.35 11 Shigeki Maruyama 15.60 12 Chad Campbell 17.20 13 Fred Funk 21.25 14 Mark Calcavecchia 21.80 15 Rory Sabbatini 23.80

I am going to stick with the top 5 for this tournament. All 5 of these players have CLis under 10.

So the Tour Outsider picks for the Sony Open:

Rank Player CLi 1 Steve Stricker 3.00 2 Vijay Singh 4.60 3 Charles Howell III 8.20 4 Stephen Ames 8.55 5 Jim Furyk 9.30

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

• 1 Aaron Baddeley
• 2 Steve Stricker
• 3 Vijay Singh
• 4 Jim Furyk
• 5 Charles Howell III

This week we have four players in common: Stricker, Singh, Furyk and Howell. So Shedloski is banking on Aaron Baddeley and I am banking on Stephen Ames.