Tour Outsider: Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial

This week the US PGA Tour heads back to Texas for a 3rd time this year. Players will be in Ben Hogan's backyard to play the Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial.

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 Kenny Perry 8.00 2 S Anthony Kim 8.50 3 S Jim Furyk 11.45 4 S Ben Crane 22.50 5 S Stephen Ames 22.85 6 S Chad Campbell 23.05 7 S Pat Perez 24.00 8 S Justin Leonard 24.10 9 S Marco Dawson 25.60 10 S Jeff Quinney 27.10 11 S David Toms 28.55 12 S Phil Mickelson 28.75 13 S Jason Bohn 31.10 14 S Briny Baird 32.80 15 S Steve Flesch 33.80

This week we see Kenny Perry on to of the CLi rankings. That is no surprise as he plays well at Colonial and he has been playing well lately. He placed 2nd last week in the AT&T Classic (losing in a playoff to Imada), and 15th in the Players Championship. So, I will definitely include him this week in my picks.

I will go with the top 3 in the CLi rankings: Perry, Kim and Furyk. I am going to skip over Ben Crane, as he hurt me last week with a WD. Then will pick the next two players in the CLi rankings list: Ames and Campbell.

So the Tour Outsider picks for the Crowne Plaza Invitational are:

Rank Player CLi 1 S Kenny Perry 8.00 2 S Anthony Kim 8.50 3 S Jim Furyk 11.45 4 S Stephen Ames 22.85 5 S Chad Campbell 23.05

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

• 1 Jim Furyk
• 2 Phil Mickelson
• 3 Nathan Green
• 4 Kenny Perry
• 5 K.J. Choi

We have 2 players in common in this tournament: Furyk and Perry.