Tour Outsider: PODS Championship

This week the US PGA Tour stays in the state of Florida, but moves from the east coast of the state to the west coast of state to play the PODS Championship in Tampa Bay.

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 Ernie Els 5.55 2 J.B. Holmes 10.60 3 Robert Allenby 14.80 4 Brian Gay 18.55 5 Mark Calcavecchia 18.65 6 Ryuji Imada 18.65 7 Joe Durant 20.95 8 Chad Campbell 21.05 9 Stewart Cink 21.10 10 Justin Rose 21.80 11 Nathan Green 25.00 12 Stephen Ames 26.50 13 Jeff Quinney 27.35 14 Briny Baird 29.00 15 John Senden 35.95

I am going to go with the top 4 players in the CLi rankings. I just hope that Gay does not pull out of this one. He plays well here, so hopefully he has had a good rest during his week off and is ready to play this week in Tampa.

I am going to skip over Calcavecchia even though he played well last week in the Honda Classic. I just do not see him being able to pull 4 good rounds out of his bag this week. He can easily do well for 3 rounds, but I just see him being tired one round this week, which will cause him to have a bad round.

Then to round out my five players, I will pick Durant. He plays well in Florida and has been playing well leading up to this tournament.

So the Tour Outsider picks for the PODS Championship are:

Rank Player CLi 1 Ernie Els 5.55 2 J.B. Holmes 10.60 3 Robert Allenby 14.80 4 Brian Gay 18.55 5 Joe Durant 20.95

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

• 1 Ernie Els
• 2 Stuart Appleby
• 3 Mark Calcavecchia
• 4 Nathan Green
• 5 Brian Gay

We have 2 players in common in this tournament: Els and Gay.