Tour Outsider: The PLAYERS Championship

This week the US PGA Tour is at Sawgrass in Florida playing it's gem of a tournament: The PLAYERS 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 4.45 2 S Phil Mickelson 9.65 3 S Padraig Harrington 11.25 4 S Stewart Cink 14.15 5 S Vijay Singh 15.75 6 S Mathew Goggin 17.35 7 S Jim Furyk 18.55 8 S Retief Goosen 22.60 9 S Henrik Stenson 26.50 10 S Brandt Snedeker 28.20 11 S Boo Weekley 30.50 12 S Lee Westwood 30.95 13 S Stephen Ames 31.50 14 S Geoff Ogilvy 32.80 15 S Steve Elkington 33.10

I am going to go with the top 4 in the CLi rankings. Actually the top 5 all look good. However, I am going to do something strange this week and go all the way down to the 14th player in the CLi rankings to pick Ogilvy. I just have a funny feeling that Ogilvy will made the cut and perform well this week. Singh, who is the 5th player in the CLi rankings, would love to win this tournament as he is a local Ponte Vedra Beach resident. However, he might be pushing himself too much to win the tournament because of that.

So the Tour Outsider picks for the PLAYERS Championship are:

Rank Player CLi 1 S Adam Scott 4.45 2 S Phil Mickelson 9.65 3 S Padraig Harrington 11.25 4 S Stewart Cink 14.15 5 S Geoff Ogilvy 32.80

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

• 1 Phil Mickelson
• 2 Adam Scott
• 3 Vijay Singh
• 4 Brandt Snedeker
• 5 Anthony Kim

We have 2 players in common in this tournament: Mickelson and Scott.