Accenture World Match Play

The US PGA Tour, and many of the tours around the world, are in Arizona to play a World Golf Championship event - the Accenture World Match Play.

Below is the list of the top 15 players in the CLi rankings for the Accenture World Match Play.

#	Player	CLi
1	Tiger Woods	6.15
2	Charl Schwartzel	7.85
3	Luke Donald	9.75
4	Hunter Mahan	9.95
5	Sergio Garcia	12.10
6	Ryan Moore	12.80
7	Jason Day	13.20
8	Bill Haas	13.85
9	Bubba Watson	14.10
10	Richard Sterne	15.45
11	George Coetzee	16.55
12	Martin Kaymer	17.00
13	Matt Kuchar	17.30
14	Fredrik Jacobson	17.45
15	Charles Howell III	18.15

I am going to go with the top 5 in the CLi rankings: Woods (analysis), Schwartzel (analysis), Donald (analysis), Mahan (analysis), and Garcia (analysis).

Woods is a fierce competitor and loves match play.  Plus, he has had good form of late, winning several weeks ago in San Diego at the Farmers Insurance Open.

Schwartzel doesn't necessarily go deep in match play, usually winning his first round match but losing his second round match.  He has been playing extremely well lately.  So hopefully that will propel him past the second round.

Donald is a steady and tough competitor in match play.  He tends to make the shots needed to get through to the late rounds.  He won this event in 2011.

Mahan won this event last year and placed 9th the previous year.  He was in the mix in the final round last week at the Northern Trust Open.  So he has some good golf in him coming into this week.

Garcia is eractic in match play.  He either plays very well, or not so well.  Thus his record in match play events is all over the board.  His best finish in this event was in 2010 when he finished 4th.  With his solid and consistent play this season, he could go far into the late rounds of this tournament.

Below are my 5 picks for the Accenture World Match Play:

#	Player	CLi
1	Tiger Woods	6.15
2	Charl Schwartzel	7.85
3	Luke Donald	9.75
4	Hunter Mahan	9.95
5	Sergio Garcia	12.10

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

1. Luke Donald
2. Jason Day
3. Tiger Woods
4. Ernie Els
5. Sergio Garcia

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: Accenture World Match Play

We have 3 players in common this week: Donald, Woods, and Garcia

Below are the settings for the CLi calculation I used for the Accenture World Match Play:

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	15%	15%
Number of Tournaments Looking Back
Number	Scoring Avg Weight (SA3)	Earnings Avg Weight (EA3)
4	10%	10%

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.