Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Tour Outsider: Legends Reno-Tahoe Open

This week the US PGA Tour is going in two different directions. This post is dedicated to the tournament in Reno: Legends Reno-Tahoe Open. For the other tournament that is being played this week, see the picks for the Bridgestone Invitational.

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 Tim Herron 4.45
2 S Joe Ogilvie 6.40
3 S Bob Estes 8.85
4 S John Merrick 10.30
5 S Scott McCarron 11.35
6 S Patrick Sheehan 12.10
7 S Michael Allen 12.20
8 S Brian Davis 13.65
9 S Charles Warren 13.95
10 S Jeffrey Overton 17.75
11 S Alexander Cejka 18.00
12 S Kevin Na 18.60
13 S Chris Riley 18.75
14 S Nicholas Thompson 19.15
15 S Carlos Franco 21.35

I will go with the top 3 in the CLi rankings. Then I will skip over Merrick and pick McCarron. McCarron plays well near his home town: Reno, NV. Then for my 5th pick I will go all the way down the 12th player in the rankings: Kevin Na.

So the Tour Outsider picks for the Legend Reno-Tahoe Open are:

Rank Player CLi
1 S Tim Herron 4.45
2 S Joe Ogilvie 6.40
3 S Bob Estes 8.85
4 S Scott McCarron 11.35
5 S Kevin Na 18.60

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

We have no players in common in this tournament.

Tour Outsider: Bridgestone Invitational

This week the US PGA Tour is going in two different directions. One is to Ohio to play one of the World Golf Championship events: Bridgestone Invitational. Then the other tournament that is being played this week on the US PGA Tour is on the west side of the United States at Legends Reno-Tahoe Open. This post is dedicated to the Bridgestone Invitational. I will submit the post for the Legends Reno-Tahoe Open later today.

[ I have now finished the move across country from Colorado to Kentucky. So hopefully I will get back on schedule with my weekly posts on Tour Outsider going forward. ]

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 Jim Furyk 6.40
2 S Kenny Perry 9.15
3 S Stewart Cink 14.40
4 S Sergio Garcia 15.25
5 S Robert Allenby 15.50
6 S Rod Pampling 18.75
7 S Chris DiMarco 18.80
8 S Lucas Glover 20.55
9 S Hunter Mahan 21.85
10 S Justin Leonard 22.55
11 S Ian Poulter 22.75
12 S Vijay Singh 24.00
13 S David Toms 24.20
14 S Padraig Harrington 24.35
15 S Peter Lonard 24.55

The past two weeks for me have been tough in terms of my picks. I don't know if it is because I have not had much time to think about them since I have been in the process of a move and living out a moving truck. Or if it is because I just was not good with my picks. In any event, hopefully this week will turn out better.

The top 5 picks in the Golf CLi rankings look good. I wanted to stray from them to see if I could look down the list. I was thinking about looking at Pampling, Leonard, Poulter and/or Singh. However, I can't see which of the top 5 I could take out, as they all look really good to me. The only one that I might be hestitant about is Garcia as he has not placed higher than 13th in this event at Firestone. However, that said, he has not placed outside of the top 30 in the last five years and he is playing well leading up to this event. So I am going to stick with all of the top 5 in the CLi rankings.

So the Tour Outsider picks for the Bridgestone Invitational are:

Rank Player CLi
1 S Jim Furyk 6.40
2 S Kenny Perry 9.15
3 S Stewart Cink 14.40
4 S Sergio Garcia 15.25
5 S Robert Allenby 15.50

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

We have 3 players in common in this tournament: Cink, Furyk and Perry.

Monday, July 28, 2008

Tour Outsider: RBC Canadian Open Review

It is now time to review the picks for the RBC Canadian Open to see how the results turned out.

Here are the results of the Tour Outsider (my) picks.

Rank Player CLi Rank Earnings
Rd4 Rd3 Rd2 Rd1 Actual
1 S Tom Pernice Jr 9.15 37 47 16 62 $21,500
2 S Bob Tway 9.65 44 47 58 78 $16,000
3 S Bo Van Pelt 11.05 MC MC 124 122 $0
4 S Bubba Watson 12.90 MC MC 81 36 $0
5 S Jim Furyk 13.95 14 14 27 53 $82,500

For a second week in a row, I have several players that missed the cut. Not good. Plus, there were no players in my picks that ended up on the top 10 to pick up the slack. My best result was with Furky, who placed 14th.

Here are the results of the Tour Insider (Dave Shedloski) picks.

Here is the comparison between the Tour Outsider and Tour Insider picks.

Tour Outsider Tour Insider Winner
Total Earnings $120,000 $439,714 TI
Avg Rank 60.0 30.2 TI
Made Cut 3 4 TI
Outcome -- -- TI

The Total Earnings category was won by the Tour Insider.

The Avg Rank category was won by the Tour Insider.

The Tour Insider won the Made Cut category for the clean sweep of all 3 categories.

This tournament overall was won by the Tour Insider.

The overall results between the Tour Outsider and the Tour Insider year to date is, 15 wins to the Tour Outsider, 11 wins to the Tour Insider, and 5 draws.


The CLi top 15 looked like this (see below).

Rank Player CLi Rank Earnings
Rd4 Rd3 Rd2 Rd1 Actual
1 S Tom Pernice Jr 9.15 37 47 16 62 $21,500
2 S Bob Tway 9.65 44 47 58 78 $16,000
3 S Bo Van Pelt 11.05 MC MC 124 122 $0
4 S Bubba Watson 12.90 MC MC 81 36 $0
5 S Jim Furyk 13.95 14 14 27 53 $82,500
6 S Eric Axley 19.25 20 14 2 1 $62,500
7 S Brian Davis 19.50 14 6 3 34 $82,500
8 S Charlie Wi 22.40 14 14 27 34 $82,500
9 S Steve Marino 22.70 3 3 5 10 $290,000
10 S Cliff Kresge 22.80 58 47 9 34 $11,100
11 S Patrick Sheehan 23.80 63 47 27 53 $10,600
12 S Bill Haas 24.70 37 28 16 19 $21,500
13 S Robert Garrigus 27.95 44 67 58 53 $16,000
14 S Dean Wilson 29.55 MC MC 94 95 $0
15 S Alexander Cejka 29.80 58 47 27 34 $11,100

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Tour Outsider: RBC Canadian Open

This week the US PGA Tour heads north across the border to Canada to play the RBC Canadian Open

[ I wish I was heading north of the border to play in a golf tournament. Rather, my family and I are still living out of a moving truck at the moment. It has been over a week that we have been in the process of moving across country from Colorado to Kentucky. Hopefully we will be settled into a house in Louisville (KY), and out of the moving truck, come the end of the weekend. ]

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 Earnings
Est. Before
1 S Tom Pernice Jr 9.15 $115,000
2 S Bob Tway 9.65 $115,000
3 S Bo Van Pelt 11.05 $115,000
4 S Bubba Watson 12.90 $115,000
5 S Jim Furyk 13.95 $115,000
6 S Eric Axley 19.25 $75,000
7 S Brian Davis 19.50 $75,000
8 S Charlie Wi 22.40 $23,666
9 S Steve Marino 22.70 $23,666
10 S Cliff Kresge 22.80 $23,666
11 S Patrick Sheehan 23.80 $23,666
12 S Bill Haas 24.70 $23,666
13 S Robert Garrigus 27.95 $23,666
14 S Dean Wilson 29.55 $23,666
15 S Alexander Cejka 29.80 $23,666

After last week's tough showing (3 of my picks missed the cut at the British Open), I am going to let the CLi rankings do the talking. So I am going to go with the top five players in the CLi rankings this week.

So the Tour Outsider picks for the RBC Canadian Open are:

Rank Player CLi Earnings
Est. Before
1 S Tom Pernice Jr 9.15 $115,000
2 S Bob Tway 9.65 $115,000
3 S Bo Van Pelt 11.05 $115,000
4 S Bubba Watson 12.90 $115,000
5 S Jim Furyk 13.95 $115,000

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

We have 1 player in common in this tournament: Furyk.

Monday, July 21, 2008

Tour Outsider: British Open Review

It is now time to review the picks for the British Open to see how the results turned out.

Here are the results of the Tour Outsider (my) picks.

Rank Player CLi Rank Earnings
Rd4 Rd3 Rd2 Rd1 Actual
1 S Vijay Singh 9.70 MC MC 102 136 $5,254
2 S Stewart Cink 13.70 MC MC 84 52 $6,344
3 S Phil Mickelson 17.60 19 48 38 123 $74,883
4 S Sergio Garcia 18.10 51 15 22 15 $23,366
5 S Miguel Angel Jimenez 18.90 MC MC 127 15 $4,709

Oh, not a very good Open for me. Three of my picks missed the cut. I never like it when 1 player in my picks miss the cut, much less 3 of them. Hmmmm....

Here are the results of the Tour Insider (Dave Shedloski) picks.

Here is the comparison between the Tour Outsider and Tour Insider picks.

Tour Outsider Tour Insider Winner
Total Earnings $114,555 $2,067,167 TI
Avg Rank 76.6 16.6 TI
Made Cut 2 5 TI
Outcome -- -- TI

The Total Earnings category was won by the Tour Insider.

The Avg Rank category was won by the Tour Insider.

The Tour Insider won the Made Cut category for the clean sweep of all 3 categories.

This tournament overall was won by the Tour Insider.

The overall results between the Tour Outsider and the Tour Insider year to date is, 15 wins to the Tour Outsider, 10 wins to the Tour Insider, and 5 draws.


The CLi top 15 looked like this (see below).

Rank Player CLi Rank Earnings
Rd4 Rd3 Rd2 Rd1 Actual
1 S Vijay Singh 9.70 MC MC 102 136 $5,254
2 S Hunter Mahan 12.50 MC MC 114 136 $5,254
3 S Stewart Cink 13.70 MC MC 84 52 $6,344
4 S Phil Mickelson 17.60 19 48 38 123 $74,883
5 S Sergio Garcia 18.10 51 15 22 15 $23,366
6 S Geoff Ogilvy 18.30 MC MC 102 91 $5,254
7 S Lee Westwood 18.70 67 76 69 52 $19,627
8 S Miguel Angel Jimenez 18.90 MC MC 127 15 $4,709
9 S Rod Pampling 20.80 MC MC 127 91 $4,709
10 S Graeme McDowell 24.80 19 35 4 1 $74,883
11 S Justin Leonard 27.40 16 20 38 91 $105,406
12 S Robert Karlsson 30.00 7 48 52 52 $192,197
13 S Soren Hansen 32.90 64 27 16 52 $20,222
14 S Jim Furyk 33.40 5 15 4 7 $356,859
15 S Adam Scott 34.00 16 27 16 4 $105,406