Transitions Championship

The US PGA Tour is on the west coast of Florida this week to play the Transitions Championship at Innisbruck.

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

#	Player	CLi
1	Nick Watney	7.75
2	Martin Laird	20.30
3	Mark Calcavecchia	20.80
4	K.J. Choi	22.25
5	Spencer Levin	23.60
6	Jimmy Walker	23.90
7	Charles Howell III	24.10
8	Vijay Singh	24.20
9	Brian Gay	25.75
10	Bubba Watson	26.50
11	Webb Simpson	27.15
12	Stuart Appleby	27.50
13	Retief Goosen	28.10
14	Ryan Moore	30.70
15	Justin Rose	32.80

Watney is a no-brainer pick this week (the last time I said that it was when Tiger Woods was dominating) -- this is reflected in his low CLi figure (7.75, below 10) compared to the 2nd player's cli figure (Laird, 20.30).

Watney has played in this tournament for the past 5 years and not missed the cut. Each year he has improved on his finish, placing 58th, 48th, 23rd, 12th, and 4th. And then on top of his good play in this tournament, he is playing well leading up to the tournament. He won last week at Doral and has not finished out of the top 10 in any of the 5 tournaments he has played in this year.

Laird looks like another good pick. He has played this tournament once, finishing 28th. In the last 4 tournaments he has played in, he has finished no worse then 33rd, with this best finish being 3rd at the Waste Management Phoenix Open 4 weeks ago. He finished 10th last week at Doral.

I am going to skip over Calcavecchia, and pick Choi and Levin. Then I will skip over Walker to pick Howell.

That means I am leaving out Singh, which could be a poor move on my part as he likes this tournament. However, he has been erradict this year. He could play well here, or he could struggle.  I don't want to take that chance when I have players likes like Howell, Choi, and the up-and-coming Levin available.

Below are my 5 picks for the Transitions Championship :

#	Player	CLi
1	Nick Watney	7.75
2	Martin Laird	20.30
3	K.J. Choi	22.25
4	Spencer Levin	23.60
5	Charles Howell III	24.10

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

1. Bubba Watson
2. Padraig Harrington
3. Nick Watney
4. Jonathan Byrd
5. MArtin Kaymer

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 1 player in common this week: Watney.

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%

If you don't like the configuration of my CLi calculation, feel free to run your own CLi calculation with your own desired settings by going to golfcli.com.