Tour Outsider: Shell Houston Open

This week the US PGA Tour moves to the big state of Texas to play the Shell Houston 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 S Adam Scott 5.45 2 S Geoff Ogilvy 10.65 3 S K.J. Choi 13.45 4 S Phil Mickelson 14.50 5 S Padraig Harrington 15.25 6 S Hunter Mahan 15.95 7 S Steve Stricker 16.05 8 S Stuart Appleby 16.70 9 S Bo Van Pelt 20.45 10 S Tommy Armour III 20.60 11 S Anthony Kim 27.65 12 S Dudley Hart 28.00 13 S Marco Dawson 30.15 14 S John Mallinger 33.20 15 S Angel Cabrera 34.75

I am going to go with Adam Scott, then will skip over Geoff Ogilvy as I think he is focused more on the Masters than this tournament. Then will go with the Houston area transplant from South Korea, K.J. Choi --- as he likes playing in front of his adopted home town.

I will go with the next two players after that, which are Mickelson and Harrington. Mickelson historically plays well in the tournament before The Masters. In the past the tournament before The Masters was the Bellsouth Classic in Atlanta. So hoping to see him do well in Houston for the same reason. Harrington is playgin steadily at the moment and look to see him place well this week.

I will skip over Mahan to pick Stricker as my last pick. After missing the cut in New Orleans last week, I think Stricker will show some fire this week to play well before heading off to The Masters.

So the Tour Outsider picks for the Shell Houston Open are:

Rank Player CLi 1 S Adam Scott 5.45 2 S K.J. Choi 13.45 3 S Phil Mickelson 14.50 4 S Padraig Harrington 15.25 5 S Steve Stricker 16.05

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

• 1 Stuart Appleby
• 2 Geoff Ogilvy
• 3 K.J. Choi
• 4 Anthony Kim
• 5 Adam Scott

We have 2 players in common in this tournament: Choi and Scott.

Tour Outsider: Zurich Classic Review

It is now time to review the picks for the Zurich Classic of New Orleans 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 S Padraig Harrington 8.80 4 8 25 33 $256,267 2 S Mark Calcavecchia 10.05 33 55 32 33 $30,724 3 S Retief Goosen 11.10 57 74 63 73 $13,640 4 S Stewart Cink 14.05 DQ 62 63 73 $0 5 S Woody Austin 15.90 4 2 17 9 $256,267

This week was pretty good. If you look at all 5 of my picks, I had two in the top 4. The only bleminsh was the disqualification of Cink after the 3 round.

Since Shedloski only made 4 picks last week, I have to knock off Austin and go with the top 4 (per my post earlier this week).

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

• 1 Retief Goosen | 5 | $285,000
• 2 Lucas Glover | 75 | $36,000
• 4 Anthony Kim | 12 | $106,167
• 3 Steve Stricker | 2 | $530,000
• 5 [ he forgot to pick a 5th player ]

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

	Tour Outsider	Tour Insider	Winner
Total Earnings	$300,631	$13,640	TO
Avg Rank	59.5	83.0	TO
Made Cut	3	1	TO
Outcome	--	--	TO

The Total Earnings category was won by the Tour Outsider.

The Tour Outsider won the Avg Rank category.

The Made Cut category was won by the Tour Outsider.

This tournament was won by the Tour Outsider.

The overall results between the Tour Outsider and the Tour Insider year to date is, 10 wins to the Tour Outsider, 3 wins to the Tour Insider, and 2 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 S Padraig Harrington 8.80 4 8 25 33 $256,267 2 S Mark Calcavecchia 10.05 33 55 32 33 $30,724 3 S Retief Goosen 11.10 57 74 63 73 $13,640 4 S Stewart Cink 14.05 DQ 62 63 73 $0 5 S Woody Austin 15.90 4 2 17 9 $256,267 6 S Steve Stricker 16.45 MC MC 82 17 $0 7 S Anthony Kim 16.70 MC MC 94 73 $0 8 S John Mallinger 18.15 42 47 32 9 $19,949 9 S John Senden 20.70 12 8 49 92 $110,825 10 S John Merrick 21.60 7 1 7 59 $193,233 11 S Bo Van Pelt 25.55 MC MC 117 59 $0 12 S Bubba Watson 29.45 70 70 32 73 $12,152 13 S Briny Baird 30.45 12 2 1 2 $110,825 14 S Alexander Cejka 31.00 75 76 63 59 $11,656 15 S Carl Pettersson 31.25 23 27 25 33 $48,670

Tour Outsider: Zurich Classic

This week the US PGA Tour is in cajun country traveling to New Orleans to play the Zurich Classic of New Orleans.

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 S Padraig Harrington 8.80 2 S Mark Calcavecchia 10.05 3 S Retief Goosen 11.10 4 S Stewart Cink 14.05 5 S Woody Austin 15.90 6 S Steve Stricker 16.45 7 S Anthony Kim 16.70 8 S John Mallinger 18.15 9 S John Senden 20.70 10 S John Merrick 21.60 11 S Bo Van Pelt 25.55 12 S Bubba Watson 29.45 13 S Briny Baird 30.45 14 S Alexander Cejka 31.00 15 S Carl Pettersson 31.25

I like the top 5 in the Cli rankings. They look good, as do several outside the top 5 (i.e. Stricker and Kim). So it should be a good tournament.

So the Tour Outsider picks for the Zurich Classic in New Orleans are:

Rank Player CLi 1 S Padraig Harrington 8.80 2 S Mark Calcavecchia 10.05 3 S Retief Goosen 11.10 4 S Stewart Cink 14.05 5 S Woody Austin 15.90

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

• 1 Retief Goosen
• 2 Lucas Glover
• 3 Anthony Kim
• 4 Steve Stricker
• 5 [ he forgot to pick a 5th player ]

We have 1 player in common in this tournament: Goosen.

Since Shedloski only made 4 picks this week, I will take out my 5th player, Woody Austin, to make it 4-on-4.

[ Note: I have been late in posting this week as I have been traveling. It has bee difficult for me to get Internet access and time as I have been in meetings or on airplaness for the earlier part of this week. Below is the posting regarding this week's tournament: Zurich Classic of New Orleans. ]

Tour Outsider: CA Championship Review

It is now time to review the picks for the CA 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 S Tiger Woods 1.50 5 7 2 4 $285,000 2 S Vijay Singh 9.20 2 2 20 56 $530,000 3 S Phil Mickelson 11.70 20 22 20 4 $75,000 4 S K.J. Choi 16.90 12 10 10 28 $106,167 5 S Luke Donald 17.60 20 17 10 9 $75,000

Had some nice picks this week with Singh and Woods as they both placed in the top 5. And even though the tournament was a selective field, it was nice to see that my highest pick finished 20th. That should help me this week.

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

• 1 Tiger Woods | 5 | $285,000
• 2 Ernie Els | 75 | $36,000
• 4 K.J. Choi | 12 | $106,167
• 3 Jim Furyk | 2 | $530,000
• 5 Geoff Ogilvy | 1 | $1,350,000

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

	Tour Outsider	Tour Insider	Winner
Total Earnings	$1,071,167	$2,307,167	TI
Avg Rank	11.8	19.0	TO
Made Cut	5	5	DRAW
Outcome	--	--	DRAW

The Total Earnings category was won by the Tour Insider. Shedloski just kicked butt this week in earnings. It helped that he had players place 1st and 2nd.

The Tour Outsider won the Avg Rank category.

The Made Cut category was a draw.

This tournament was a draw.

The overall results between the Tour Outsider and the Tour Insider year to date is, 9 wins to the Tour Outsider, 3 wins to the Tour Insider, and 2 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 S Tiger Woods 1.50 5 7 2 4 $285,000 2 S Vijay Singh 9.20 2 2 20 56 $530,000 3 S Phil Mickelson 11.70 20 22 20 4 $75,000 4 S Ernie Els 14.80 75 72 72 63 $36,000 5 S Robert Allenby 15.30 20 17 46 19 $75,000 6 S K.J. Choi 16.90 12 10 10 28 $106,167 7 S Luke Donald 17.60 20 17 10 9 $75,000 8 S Henrik Stenson 20.50 57 68 46 45 $42,250 9 S Stewart Cink 21.40 20 22 10 3 $75,000 10 S Mark Calcavecchia 21.50 30 17 7 9 $62,500 11 S Woody Austin 22.50 44 39 10 28 $48,875 12 S Niclas Fasth 22.70 44 22 20 45 $48,875 13 S Geoff Ogilvy 24.40 1 1 1 1 $1,350,000 14 S Craig Parry 24.40 73 68 66 56 $36,375 15 S Sean O'Hair 25.70 WD WD 66 56 $0