Wednesday, July 8, 2009

John Deere Classic

The US PGA Tour heads to the mid-west to play the John Deere Classic. IT is the last tournament on the US PGA Tour circuit before the next major (the British Open). The winner of the John Deere gets a chance to play in the British Open if they are not already in the field of the British Open. So there is some added incentive for players in the John Deere field.

Rank Player CLi
1 Kenny Perry 1.90
2 Jeffrey Overton 14.60
3 John Senden 14.90
4 Woody Austin 18.50
5 Steve Stricker 19.15
6 Heath Slocum 21.70
7 Nathan Green 22.05
8 Greg Chalmers 22.20
9 Kevin Sutherland 22.50
10 Jason Dufner 23.85
11 Jason Bohn 24.45
12 Cameron Beckman 24.95
13 David Toms 25.35
14 Casey Wittenberg 26.35
15 Lucas Glover 26.65

Kenny Perry is a clear favorite this week. His CLi figure is 1.90 (which is low) and the next closest is 14.60 (which is a big difference between players). So I would be foolish to not pick Perry to play well this week [ hopefully I won't be eating those words).

I am going to skip Overton. He has played well in this event. However, I just don't get the feeling he is going to stay in the field (i.e. a WD possibly). I am then going to pick the next 4 players in the CLi rankings: Senden, Austin, Stricker and Slocum.

Below are my 5 picks for the John Deere Classic:

Rank Player CLi
1 Kenny Perry 1.90
2 John Senden 14.90
3 Woody Austin 18.50
4 Steve Stricker 19.15
5 Heath Slocum 21.70

4 comments:

  1. Why is the Cli I got on golfcli.com different from yours if I didn't change any of the values or percentages?

    For example, I have Toms 5th on the list but you have Sticker on yours...what gives?

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  2. It means that I didn't use the default configuration for my CLi.

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  3. When will you be posting your British Open picks??

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