Tour Outsider: Arnold Palmer Invitational

This week the US PGA Tour continues its Florida swing, moving to the center of Florida to play the Arnold Palmer Invitational in Orlando. Played at Bay Hill, this tournament is Arnie's tournament as well as his personal course, true and true.

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 Vijay Singh 4.15 2 Tiger Woods 9.20 3 Luke Donald 11.45 4 Stuart Appleby 14.10 5 Phil Mickelson 19.15 6 Corey Pavin 24.30 7 Ben Crane 27.05 8 Chad Campbell 27.40 9 Kenny Perry 27.50 10 Brian Gay 28.35 11 Sean O'Hair 32.95 12 Scott Verplank 33.45 13 Boo Weekley 33.85 14 Rod Pampling 37.20 15 Sergio Garcia 38.25

Let's see if I can right the ship after the bad week at the PODS Championship (had 4 out of 5 players miss the cut).

I will go with the top 3 players in the CLi, two of them have CLis below 10 and Donald's is not far above 10 (11.45). Then I will go outside of the top 5 to pick Campbell and Verplank.

So the Tour Outsider picks for the Arnold Palmer Invitational are:

Rank Player CLi 1 Vijay Singh 4.15 2 Tiger Woods 9.20 3 Luke Donald 11.45 4 Chad Campbell 27.40 5 Scott Verplank 33.45

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

• 1 Tiger Woods
• 2 Phil Mickelson
• 3 Stuart Appleby
• 4 Vijay Singh
• 5 Luke Donald

We have 3 players in common in this tournament: Woods, Singh and Donald.

It is a good thing that I went outside the top 5 in the CLi, or Shedloski and I would have had all 5 picks the same this week as Shedloski's picks are also the top 5 CLi rankings.