Transitions Championship

This week the US PGA Tour is in the Tampa Bay area this week to play the Transitions Championship.

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

#	Player	CLi
1	K.J. Choi	6.60
2	Steve Stricker	12.70
3	Charles Howell III	14.85
4	Vijay Singh	16.65
5	Justin Rose	17.35
6	Ryuji Imada	18.35
7	Charlie Wi	20.45
8	Stewart Cink	22.40
9	Heath Slocum	26.35
10	Tom Lehman	26.90
11	Sean O'Hair	27.35
12	Paul Goydos	28.05
13	Nick Watney	28.15
14	J.B. Holmes	29.00
15	George McNeill	30.25

Choi is the only player that has a CLi less than 10. This suggests that I should pick him. As well, it suggests that the other 4 picks are going to be difficult since there are not clear favorites down the list. However, that said, the next 4 players in the list all look like good players in this tournament. They all have tended to play well in this tournament over the past 5 years. So I am going to go with the top 5 in the CLi rankings this week.

I just hope they separate themselves from the rest of the pack...even though the CLi says it will be difficult for them to do that since many players are projected to have a good chance of playing well this week.

Below are my 5 picks for the Transitions Championship:

#	Player	CLi
1	K.J. Choi	6.60
2	Steve Stricker	12.70
3	Charles Howell III	14.85
4	Vijay Singh	16.65
5	Justin Rose	17.35

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

1. Steve Stricker
2. Justin Rose
3. Vijay Singh
4. Charles Howell III
5. Padraig Harrington

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: Transitions Championship

We have 4 players in common this week: Stricker, Rose, Singh, and Howell. Hmmmmm....let's go K.J. Choi!!!!

Below are the settings for the CLi calculation I used for the Transitions Championship:

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%