John Deere Classic

This week the US PGA Tour is playing the John Deere Classic in Illinois, as a warm up to next week's British Open.

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

#	Player	CLi
1	Steve Stricker	5.95
2	Heath Slocum	12.50
3	Zach Johnson	14.50
4	Rod Pampling	15.30
5	Andres Romero	15.70
6	Jason Day	16.30
7	Charles Howell III	16.45
8	Paul Goydos	19.85
9	Chris Stroud	21.80
10	David Mathis	21.85
11	Troy Matteson	22.70
12	Jonathan Byrd	24.80
13	Jerry Kelly	25.05
14	Vaughn Taylor	25.65
15	Joe Ogilvie	26.35

I am going to pick the top 3 players in the CLi rankings: Stricker (analysis), Slocum (analysis), and Johnson (analysis). Then I am going to pick Day (analysis) and Howell (analysis) for my 4th and 5th picks.

Even though I am still traveling this week, I decided to go outside the top 5 players and pick the 6th and 7th players in the list. In doing so, I skipped over Rod Pampling (analysis) and Andres Romero (analysis).

Below are my 5 picks for the John Deere Classic :

#	Player	CLi
1	Steve Stricker	5.95
2	Heath Slocum	12.50
3	Zach Johnson	14.50
4	Jason Day	16.30
5	Charles Howell III	16.45

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

1. Steve Stricker
2. Jason Day
3. Charles Howell III
4. David Toms
5. Zach Johnson

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: John Deere Classic

We have 4 players in common this week: Stricker, Day, Howell, and Johnson. Let's go Slocum!

Below are the settings for the CLi calculation I used for the John Deere Classic:

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.