Tour Outsider: Mayakoba Classic

As mentioned in my previous post, the US PGA Tour goes in two separate ways this week. This post is for the second part of the tour which heads south of the border to play in Mexico in the Mayakoba Classic (to view the picks comparisons for the other half, the Accenture Match Play, click here).

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 Parker McLachlin 9.55 2 Stephen Marino 15.05 3 Brian Gay 16.15 4 Daisuke Maruyama 16.95 5 Fred Funk 20.90 6 Alejandro Canizares 21.70 7 Doug Labelle II 21.80 8 Matt Kuchar 25.30 9 Brent Geiberger 29.00 10 Joe Ogilvie 31.25 11 Briny Baird 31.55 12 John Merrick 32.50 13 Paul Stankowski 35.50 14 Peter Lonard 43.15 15 James Driscoll 43.90

There is only one player with a CLi figure below 10 and that is Mclachlin. So that means this field is a little more wide open for people that have a chance to win than with the other tournaments we have seen played this year. So that means I will need to go down the top 15 and think through the picks a little more.

So the Tour Outsider picks for the Mayakoba Classic:

Rank Player CLi 1 Parker McLachlin 9.55 2 Stephen Marino 15.05 3 Brian Gay 16.15 4 Alejandro Canizares 21.70 5 Briny Baird 31.55

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

• 1 Bubba Watson
• 2 Joe Durant
• 3 Ken Duke
• 4 Jose Coceres
• 5 Olin Browne

We have no players in common in this tournament.