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. ]