McGladrey Classic

The US PGA Tour's Fall Season continues this week by heading to Sea Island, Georgia to play the inaugural McGladrey Classic.

Below is the list of the top 15 players in the CLi rankings for the McGladrey Classic.

#	Player	CLi
1	Matt Kuchar	8.0
2	Chris Kirk	10.0
3	Tom Gillis	11.3
4	Brett Wetterich	11.3
5	Bill Haas	11.5
6	Jonathan Byrd	13.8
7	Zach Johnson	15.8
8	Marc Leishman	21.8
9	Rocco Mediate	23.0
10	Josh Teater	23.3
11	Charlie Wi	23.5
12	Chris Stroud	24.0
13	Jeff Quinney	24.3
14	D.A. Points	26.8
15	David Toms	27.0

Even though Kuchar has struggled in the past couple of tournaments, I am still going to include him in my picks. He tends to play well in Georgia and likes playing in the Southeast for the most part.

I am going to skip Kirk. He has mainly played on the Nationwide Tour this year, and it seems as though his high finishes in that tour's events has catapulted him to a high ranking in the CLi. Even though it is not a big jump in competition level between the Nationwide Tour and the US PGA Tour, mentally it will be a big hurdle for him to get comfortable playing on the bigger tour. Thus, I am going to skip over him.

I am also going to pass over Gillis, and pick Wetterich. Gillis has a good chance to play well this week. However, both Gillis and Wetterich have the same CLi, Wetterich placed 8th last week in the Viking Classic (a recent tournament), and there are 3 solid players after both Gillis and Wetterich that I want to pick (i.e. Haas, Byrd, and Johnson). So I will pick Wetterich over Gillis.

Then I will round out my five picks with Haas, Byrd, and Johnson. These 3 players play well in this area of the country...not to mention that they are playing well at this time.

Below are my 5 picks for the McGladrey Classic :

#	Player	CLi
1	Matt Kuchar	8.0
2	Brett Wetterich	11.3
3	Bill Haas	11.5
4	Jonathan Byrd	13.8
5	Zach Johnson	15.8

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

1. Jonathan Byrd
2. Robert Allenby
3. John Rollins
4. Brendan de Jonge
5. David Toms

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: McGladrey Classic

We have 1 player in common this week: Byrd.

Below are the settings for the CLi calculation I used for the McGladrey Classic :

Number of Past Tournaments Looking Back
Number	Scoring Avg Weight (SA1)	Earnings Avg Weight (EA1)
5	0%	0%
Number of Days Looking Back
Number	Scoring Avg Weight (SA2)	Earnings Avg Weight (EA2)
60	25%	25%
Number of Tournaments Looking Back
Number	Scoring Avg Weight (SA3)	Earnings Avg Weight (EA3)
6	25%	25%