Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Verizon Heritage

This week the US PGA Tour takes us to Hilton Head Island for the Verizon Heritage.

Below is the list of the top 15 players in the CLi rankings for the Verizon Heritage.

# Player CLi
1 Matt Kuchar 14.20
2 Jim Furyk 14.55
3 Stephen Ames 16.50
4 Jeff Maggert 20.00
5 Paul Casey 20.10
6 Luke Donald 21.20
7 Camilo Villegas 25.75
8 Jason Bohn 25.80
9 Vaughn Taylor 26.90
10 Chris Couch 27.90
11 Fredrik Jacobson 28.15
12 Jerry Kelly 28.50
13 D.J. Trahan 29.95
14 Shaun Micheel 30.45
15 Spencer Levin 31.20

As with last week, there are no players with a CLi figure less than 10. This usually means that there is no clear favorite in the tournament. However, I will still stick with the top 4 players in the CLi rankings: Kuchar, Furyk, Ames, and Maggert. These 4 players are not long hitters, but are accurate with their irons. I will skip over Casey as he is still nursing his shoulder injury and is an unknown factor (he hurt me in the Shell Houston Open by withdrawing from the tournament due to that injury). I will then pick Donald for my 5th pick. He is another player that is accurate with his shots. Let's just hope that the putter gets hot for one or two of these players to make the difference with these picks.

Below are my 5 picks for the Verizon Heritage:

# Player CLi
1 Matt Kuchar 14.20
2 Jim Furyk 14.55
3 Stephen Ames 16.50
4 Jeff Maggert 20.00
5 Luke Donald 21.20

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

  1. Matt Kuchar
  2. K.J. Choi
  3. Bo Van Pelt
  4. Vaughn Taylor
  5. Brian Gay

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: Verizon Heritage

We have 1 player in common this week: Kuchar.

Below are the settings for the CLi calculation I used for the Verizon Heritage:

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%

2 comments:

  1. Hey John,

    I thought I had tried to post some picks in one of the recent tournamnets, but I can't remember for sure. Anyway, I will take Furyk, Kuchar, Choi, Donald, and Allenby.

    Baummer

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  2. Baummer, it would be good to see Allenby pull through this week. He has been playing well this year, but has yet to break through with a win on the US PGA Tour. - JM

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