Tour Outsider: Wachovia Championship

Back to the east coast we go. This week the US PGA Tour is in North Carolina for the Wachovia Championship.

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 5.50 2 S Jim Furyk 6.45 3 S Vijay Singh 7.10 4 S Anthony Kim 7.20 5 S Geoff Ogilvy 8.60 6 S Phil Mickelson 9.70 7 S Stewart Cink 14.85 8 S Lucas Glover 16.15 9 S Steve Stricker 16.20 10 S Kevin Sutherland 16.85 11 S Trevor Immelman 22.40 12 S Nick Watney 23.20 13 S Sergio Garcia 23.60 14 S Billy Mayfair 23.90 15 S Boo Weekley 27.20

Wow, there are 6 players with CLis less than 10. All but one of them are experienced players. Kim is the only player in that group of 6 without a win. With Quail Hollow being a difficult course, I am going to go with the more experienced players, and so will leave Kim out of the picks this week.

So the Tour Outsider picks for the Wachovia Championship are:

Rank Player CLi 1 S Adam Scott 5.50 2 S Jim Furyk 6.45 3 S Vijay Singh 7.10 5 S Geoff Ogilvy 8.60 6 S Phil Mickelson 9.70

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

• 1 Adam Scott
• 2 Vijay Singh
• 3 Stewart Cink
• 4 Boo Weekley
• 5 Phil Mickelson

We have 3 players in common in this tournament: Scott, Singh and Mickelson.