Arnold Palmer Invitational

This week the US PGA Tour is in Orlando this week to play the Arnold Palmer Invitational.

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

#	Player	CLi
1	Robert Allenby	16.95
2	Nick Watney	17.05
3	K.J. Choi	19.85
4	Hunter Mahan	20.10
5	Graeme McDowell	21.05
6	Phil Mickelson	21.75
7	Ernie Els	21.90
8	Jim Furyk	24.45
9	Justin Rose	25.20
10	Stephen Ames	26.50
11	Bubba Watson	27.55
12	Retief Goosen	27.60
13	Camilo Villegas	27.95
14	Chris Couch	29.20
15	Charles Howell III	30.15

The CLi figures are all high this week, with none of the players having a CLi figure below 10. This signals that there is not any clear favorites in the tournament this week. Thus, it makes picking players tough this week.

That said, I am going to go with 5 players that are int he top 6 in the CLi rankings. The player that I am going to pass on in the top 5 is Mahan. I wanted to get to Mickelson as I think he will play well this week at Palmer's tournament since Tiger is not playing. Mahan ended up being the player that I pulled.

Below are my 5 picks for the Arnold Palmer Invitational:

#	Player	CLi
1	Robert Allenby	16.95
2	Nick Watney	17.05
3	K.J. Choi	19.85
4	Graeme McDowell	21.05
5	Phil Mickelson	21.75

Below is the top 5 players in the Power Rankings from Rob Bolton:

1. Ernie Els
2. Jim Furyk
3. Retief Goosen
4. Steve Stricker
5. Camilo Villegas

Here is a link to Bolton's Power Rankings so that you can read more about his thoughts on his top players in this week's Power Rankings:

Bolton's Power Rankings: Arnold Palmer Invitational

We have no players in common this week, which is a first this year.

Below are the settings for the CLi calculation I used for the Arnold Palmer 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	10%	10%
Number of Tournaments Looking Back
Number	Scoring Avg Weight (SA3)	Earnings Avg Weight (EA3)
4	20%	20%