Wednesday, July 30, 2008

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.

Posted by at 9:57 AM

2 comments:

  1. AnonymousJuly 31, 2008 at 4:40 AM

    Hey, look out for Paul Casey this week too. In his last two starts he has a 3rd and a 7th as well as owning the 4th best scoring average here at Firestone with a very solid 70.25...I'm just sayin'

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  2. E$July 31, 2008 at 5:36 AM

    1. Stewart Cink
    2. Jim Furyk
    3. Kenny Perry
    4. Justin Leonard
    5. Padraig Harrington

    Good luck!

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