Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Bridgestone Invitational

The second tournament for the week for the US PGA Tour is the Bridgestone Invitational. The tournament is part of the World Golf Championship (aka: the elite US PGA Tour events). Only 80 players are in the field and there is no cut.

Below is the list of the top 15 players in the CLi rankings for the Bridgestone Invitational.

# Player Cli
1 Tiger Woods 1.25
2 Lee Westwood 8.30
3 Stewart Cink 11.10
4 Zach Johnson 13.80
5 Davis Love III 13.95
6 Lucas Glover 14.35
7 Hunter Mahan 15.20
8 Retief Goosen 15.95
9 Jim Furyk 16.95
10 Anthony Kim 16.95
11 Luke Donald 17.20
12 Kenny Perry 17.90
13 David Toms 18.60
14 Vijay Singh 19.10
15 Scott Verplank 20.10

I am going to go with the first 3 players in the CLi rankings: Woods, Westwood, and Cink. Then I am going to skip down the 8th player and pick Goosen. Then I will skip down to the 11th player and pick Donald.

Of note, the 7th player to the 15th player (the 2nd half of the top 15 player in the CLi rankings) have CLi figures with 5 points. So it is hard to distinguish between which of these players will play well in this tournament. Thus I needed to think through these players to pick Goosen and Donald.

Below are my 5 picks for the Bridgestone Invitational:

# Player Cli
1 Tiger Woods 1.25
2 Lee Westwood 8.30
3 Stewart Cink 11.10
4 Retief Goosen 15.95
5 Luke Donald 17.20

Below are Paul Ginn's 5 picks for the Bridgestone Invitational:

# Player
1 Tiger Woods
2 Lee Westwood
3 Rory McIlroy
4 Kenny Perry
5 Paul Casey

In this tournament, we have two player in common: Woods and Westwood.

Below are the settings for the CLi calculation I used for the Bridgestone Invitational:

Number of Past Tournaments Looking Back
Number Scoring Avg Weight (SA1) Earnings Avg Weight (EA1)
5 25% 25%
Number of Days Looking Back
Number Scoring Avg Weight (SA2) Earnings Avg Weight (EA2)
30 5% 5%
Number of Tournaments Looking Back
Number Scoring Avg Weight (SA3) Earnings Avg Weight (EA3)
4 20% 20%

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