Tour Outsider: Honda Classic

This week starts the US PGA Tour's "Florida Swing" with the players landing in Palm Beach Gardens (Florida) to play the Honda Classic.

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 Boo Weekley 4.90 2 Luke Donald 7.40 3 Steve Marino 11.25 4 Brian Gay 13.05 5 Chad Campbell 16.40 6 Ben Crane 18.05 7 Robert Allenby 18.65 8 Charlie Wi 18.65 9 Mark Wilson 19.15 10 John Merrick 22.70 11 Justin Leonard 25.15 12 Bill Haas 25.65 13 David Toms 27.20 14 Arron Oberholser 27.70 15 John Senden 32.20

This week was hard to pick. All of the top 5 players in the CLi look good and are playing well coming into this week. However, there are two players outside of the top 5 that I like in the Honda because they are good wind players. Those two players are Allenby and Leonard.

Which player or players should I eliminate in the top 5 to get to Allenby and/or Leonard?

After some thought, I have decided to remove Brian Gay and add Allenby. I will go ahead and pass on Leonard even though he could easily play well this week. Gay could easily have another strong week as well. However, he could also be overwhelmed with the activities that will now engulf him after he won for the first time last week in Mexico.

So the Tour Outsider picks for the Honda Classic:

Rank Player CLi 1 Boo Weekley 4.90 2 Luke Donald 7.40 3 Steve Marino 11.25 4 Chad Campbell 16.40 5 Robert Allenby 18.65

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

• 1 Angela Cabrera
• 2 Justin Leonard
• 3 Boo Weekley
• 4 Camilo Villegas
• 5 Justin Rose

We have 1 player in common in this tournament: Boo Weekley.