Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Bridgestone Invitational

This week the US PGA Tour has two events, 1) the Bridgestone Invitational and 2) the Reno-Tahoe Open. This posting is for the Bridgestone Invitational.

Below is the list of the top 15 players in the CLi rankings for the Bridgestone Invitational.

# Player CLi 
1 Bo Van Pelt  11.35
2 Steve Stricker  12.30
3 Sean O'Hair  15.25
4 Ryan Moore  16.90
5 Peter Hanson  17.25
6 Dustin Johnson  17.80
7 Tiger Woods  17.90
8 Jeffrey Overton  19.80
9 Lee Westwood  20.10
10 Zach Johnson  20.45
11 Rory McIlroy  21.75
12 Sergio Garcia  22.10
13 Darren Clarke  22.15
14 Jason Day  22.25
15 Hunter Mahan  23.20

I am late in posting this, so won't be providing an explanation for why I made my picks for this tournament...am only providing the list.

Below are my 5 picks for the Bridgestone Invitational :

# Player CLi 
1 Bo Van Pelt  11.35
2 Steve Stricker  12.30
3 Ryan Moore  16.90
4 Dustin Johnson  17.80
5 Jeffrey Overton  19.80

Below are the top 5 players in the Power Rankings from Rob Bolton:
  1. Dustin Johnson
  2. Lee Westwood
  3. Steve Stricker
  4. Bo Van Pelt
  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: Bridgestone Invitational

We have 3 players in common this week: Johnson, Stricker, Van Pelt.

Below are the settings for the CLi calculation I used for the Bridgestone Invitational:

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.

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