Tuesday, August 9, 2011

PGA Championship

This week the US PGA Tour has its final major of the year: the PGA Championship, which is being played at the Atlanta Athletic Club in Atlanta, Georgia.

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

# Player CLi 
1 Rory McIlroy  8.00
2 Jason Day  8.60
3 Simon Dyson  10.60
4 Luke Donald  11.80
5 Adam Scott  14.80
6 Steve Stricker  15.30
7 Sergio Garcia  16.80
8 Dustin Johnson  16.90
9 Lee Westwood  19.20
10 Tiger Woods  20.30
11 Martin Kaymer  21.70
12 Phil Mickelson  21.70
13 Zach Johnson  21.80
14 David Toms  26.60
15 Fredrik Jacobson  27.00

For my first two picks,  I am going to go with McIlroy and Day.

McIlroy (analysis) has placed 3rd in the past 2 PGA Championships, and as most people know, he faired well in the majors this year (Masters: 15th, U.S. Open: 1st, British Open: 25th).

Day (analysis) finished 10th last year, his only time he has played in the PGA Championship. He played well last week at the Bridgestone, placing 4th and has played well in the majors this year (Masters: 2nd, U.S. Open: 2nd, British Open: 30th).

For my final 3 picks, I am going to skip over Dyson (analysis) and pick Donald (analysis), Scott (analysis), and Stricker (analysis).

Below are my 5 picks for the PGA Championship :

# Player CLi 
1 Rory McIlroy  8.00
2 Jason Day  8.60
3 Luke Donald  11.80
4 Adam Scott  14.80
5 Steve Stricker  15.30

Below are the top 5 players in the Power Rankings from Rob Bolton:
  1. Luke Donald
  2. Lee Westwood
  3. Jason Day
  4. Rory McIlroy
  5. Adam Scott
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: PGA Championship

We have 4 players in common this week: Donald, Day, McIlroy, and Scott.

Below are the settings for the CLi calculation I used for the PGA Championship:

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%

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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