Valero Texas Open

After an exciting week in Augusta at The Masters, the US PGA Tour goes back to Texas to play the Valero Texas Open.

Below is the list of the top 15 players in the CLi rankings for the Valero Texas Open.

#	Player	CLi
1	Scott Verplank	13.75
2	Adam Scott	17.75
3	Marc Leishman	21.95
4	Garth Mulroy	22.05
5	Charley Hoffman	22.15
6	Fredrik Jacobson	22.90
7	Brandt Jobe	25.20
8	John Merrick	25.75
9	J.J. Henry	27.75
10	Bo Van Pelt	31.60
11	Brian Gay	32.45
12	Chad Campbell	33.55
13	Michael Thompson	35.10
14	Martin Laird	35.15
15	Justin Leonard	35.15

There is no clear favorite this week, since there are no players with a CLi figure below 10 or a CLi figure that is clearly different from the next player in the rankings. So this makes it more of an art (than a skill) in picking players for this tournament.

My "art" says to pick the first 3 players in the list, skip over Mulroy, and pick the next 2 players (a short answer to a sophisticated question :-) ).

Below are my 5 picks for the Valero Texas Open :

#	Player	CLi
1	Scott Verplank	13.75
2	Adam Scott	17.75
3	Marc Leishman	21.95
4	Charley Hoffman	22.15
5	Fredrik Jacobson	22.90

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

1. Ryan Palmer
2. Adam Scott
3. Jimmy Walker
4. Bo Van Pelt
5. Spencer Levin

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: Valero Texas Open

We have 1 player in common this week: Scott.

Below are the settings for the CLi calculation I used for the Valero Texas Open:

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.