Viking Classic

The USA PGA Tour is now playing the extended season tournaments (i.e. the tournaments after the FedEx Playoff events), with the first of the tournaments being played in Mississippi, the Viking Championship.

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

#	Player	CLi
1	Charlie Wi	14.0
2	Woody Austin	15.0
3	Jonathan Byrd	17.1
4	Bill Haas	17.4
5	David Toms	18.3
6	Troy Matteson	18.6
7	Boo Weekley	19.8
8	D.J. Trahan	23.7
9	Will MacKenzie	24.8
10	Brett Wetterich	25.9
11	Brett Quigley	26.7
12	Rocco Mediate	27.0
13	Aaron Baddeley	28.2
14	Heath Slocum	35.2
15	Chad Campbell	37.4

I am going to stick with the top 5 in the CLi rankings: Wi, Austin, Byrd, Haas, and Toms.

Don't have time to explain why, except to say that I am just going with the formula.

Below are my 5 picks for the Viking Championship :

#	Player	CLi
1	Charlie Wi	14.0
2	Woody Austin	15.0
3	Jonathan Byrd	17.1
4	Bill Haas	17.4
5	David Toms	18.3

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

1. D.J. Trahan
2. Charlie Wi
3. Bill Haas
4. Heath Slocum
5. Tom Gillis

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: Viking Championship

We have 2 players in common this week: Wi and Haas.

Below are the settings for the CLi calculation I used for the Viking 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)
60	5%	5%
Number of Tournaments Looking Back
Number	Scoring Avg Weight (SA3)	Earnings Avg Weight (EA3)
6	20%	20%