Wednesday, August 12, 2009

PGA Championship

This week the US PGA Tour is playing it's 4th and final major of the year, the US PGA Championship. The tournament is being held in Minnesota at Hazeltine, which is where Rich Beem won the event in 2002.

Below is the list of the top 15 players in the CLi rankings for the US PGA Championship.

# Player CLi
1 Tiger Woods 1.00
2 Retief Goosen 15.10
3 Steve Stricker 15.20
4 David Toms 17.00
5 Brandt Snedeker 18.00
6 Bo Van Pelt 20.00
7 Phil Mickelson 20.30
8 Stewart Cink 20.50
9 John Senden 22.30
10 Kenny Perry 23.70
11 Woody Austin 27.30
12 Nathan Green 28.80
13 Lucas Glover 29.70
14 Hunter Mahan 30.80
15 Jim Furyk 31.10

I am going to go with the first 4 players in the CLi rankings: Woods, Goosen, Stricker, and Toms. Then I am going to skip down the 8th player and pick Cink. He played well at Hazeltine in 2002 and is playing well this summer, having won the British Open.

Note: It is hard to pass over Mickelson. It was a choice between Toms and Mickelson. I decided to take a chance on Toms to see if he can rekindle his 2001 win at the US PGA Championship.

Below are my 5 picks for the US PGA Championship:

# Player CLi
1 Tiger Woods 1.00
2 Retief Goosen 15.10
3 Steve Stricker 15.20
4 David Toms 17.00
5 Stewart Cink 20.50

Below are Paul Ginn's 5 picks for the US PGA Championship:

# Player
1 Tiger Woods
2 Lee Westwood
3 Padraig Harrington
4 Geoff Ogilvy
5 Retief Goosen

In this tournament, we have two players in common: Woods and Goosen.

Below are the settings for the CLi calculation I used for the US PGA Championship:

Number of Past Tournaments Looking Back
Number Scoring Avg Weight (SA1) Earnings Avg Weight (EA1)
7 20% 20%
Number of Days Looking Back
Number Scoring Avg Weight (SA2) Earnings Avg Weight (EA2)
60 10% 10%
Number of Tournaments Looking Back
Number Scoring Avg Weight (SA3) Earnings Avg Weight (EA3)
6 20% 20%

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