Tour Outsider: Sony Open in Hawaii Review

It is now time to review the picks for the Sony Open in Hawaii 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 Steve Stricker 3.00 4 9 20 63 $208,688 2 Vijay Singh 4.60 45 41 47 54 $15,518 3 Charles Howell III 8.20 MC MC 69 52 $9,805 4 Stephen Ames 8.55 10 14 47 54 $113,571 5 Jim Furyk 9.30 20 41 47 28 $59,572

Choi ended up winning the tournament wire-to-wire. I would have of expected Choi to place in the top 15, but not to win. So that is a surprise to me.

2 of my players ended upon in the top 10, which is not bad.

Howell is shown as missing the cut even though he didn't officially "miss the cut" as defined in the new cut rules for the US PGA Tour. This is a new one as he actually made the cut based upon the US PGA Tour's new cut rules, but didn't play on the weekend. He earned money as you see. However, to keep things simple, I am going to still say the definition making the cut (vs. missing the cut) means playing every round of the tournamentand not based upon if the player earns money from the tournament. So this week, I had one player miss the cut even though all 5 of my players earned money.

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

• 1 Aaron Baddeley | 87 MC | $0
• 2 Steve Stricker | 4 | $208,688
• 4 Vijay Singh | 45 | $15,518
• 3 Jim Furyk | 20 | $59,572
• 5 Charles Howell III | 69 MC | $9,805

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

	Tour Outsider	Tour Insider	Winner
Total Earnings	$407,658	$293,583	TO
Avg Rank	29.6	45	TO
Made Cut	4	3	TO
Outcome	--	--	TO

The Tour Outsider won the Total Earnings category.

The Tour Outsider won the Avg Rank category.

The Tour Outsider won the Made Cut category to complete a sweep of all 3 categories for the tournament.

The Tour Outsider won this tournament.

The overall results between the Tour Outsider and the Tour Insider year to date is, 2 wins 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 Steve Stricker 3.00 4 9 20 63 $208,688 2 Vijay Singh 4.60 45 41 47 54 $15,518 3 Charles Howell III 8.20 MC MC 69 52 $9,805 4 Stephen Ames 8.55 10 14 47 54 $113,571 5 Jim Furyk 9.30 20 41 47 28 $59,572 6 Bubba Watson 11.75 50 30 58 54 $12,784 7 Jerry Kelly 12.40 3 14 6 13 $360,400 8 Aaron Baddeley 13.70 MC MC 87 52 $0 9 Boo Weekley 15.20 MC MC 87 52 $0 10 George McNeill 15.35 17 52 58 28 $79,500 11 Shigeki Maruyama 15.60 25 21 20 28 $39,599 12 Chad Campbell 17.20 10 5 12 5 $113,571 13 Fred Funk 21.25 10 9 4 42 $113,571 14 Mark Calcavecchia 21.80 68 67 58 28 $10,812 15 Rory Sabbatini 23.80 2 5 12 5 $572,400