HSBC Champions Tournament

This week the US PGA Tour stays in Asia to play a World Golf Championship event, the HSBC Champions Tournament.

Below is the list of the top 15 players in the CLi rankings for the HSBC Champions Tournament.

#	Player	CLi
1	Nick Watney	5.6
2	Ernie Els	6.4
3	Luke Donald	8.3
4	Adam Scott	8.6
5	Robert Allenby	11.2
6	Ryo Ishikawa	13.1
7	Kyung-tae Kim	13.8
8	Arjun Atwal	15.4
9	K.J. Choi	16.5
10	Martin Kaymer	17.4
11	Padraig Harrington	17.7
12	Retief Goosen	17.9
13	Paul Casey	20.8
14	Lee Westwood	23.1
15	Tiger Woods	23.8

I like the top 5 in the CLi rankings: Watney, Els, Donald, Scott, and Allenby. However, none of them are Asia-based. And with this tournament being played in Asia (China), I want to have at least one player in this "World Golf Championship" that is "local". So I will by pass Allenby to pick Ishikawa. Allenby is playing well, but so is Ishikawa....in the Japanese events he has played over the past month. Hopefully he will take his play to China and play well this week.

Below are my 5 picks for the HSBC Champions Tournament :

#	Player	CLi
1	Nick Watney	5.6
2	Ernie Els	6.4
3	Luke Donald	8.3
4	Adam Scott	8.6
5	Ryo Ishikawa	13.1

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

1. Martin Kaymer
2. Graeme McDowell
3. Luke Donald
4. Nick Watney
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: HSBC Champions Tournament

We have 2 players in common this week: Donald and Watney.

Below are the settings for the CLi calculation I used for the HSBC Champions Tournament :

Number of Past Tournaments Looking Back
Number	Scoring Avg Weight (SA1)	Earnings Avg Weight (EA1)
5	20%	20%
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%