Wednesday, August 7, 2013

PGA Championship

This week is the last major of the year: The PGA Championship.  It is being held at Oak Hill Country Club in New York.

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

# Player CLi 
1  Keegan Bradley 4.00
2  Phil Mickelson 8.70
3  Tiger Woods 9.90
4  Henrik Stenson 10.10
5  Jason Dufner 11.90
6  Zach Johnson 13.10
7  Steve Stricker 13.40
8  Bill Haas 15.30
9  Ian Poulter 17.20
10  Dustin Johnson 18.30
11  Justin Rose 21.90
12  Matt Kuchar 22.50
13  Martin Kaymer 28.80
14  Lee Westwood 28.80
15  Chris Kirk 29.40

I am going to stick with the top 5 in the Golf CLi rankings.

Below are my 5 picks for the PGA Championship:

# Player
CLi 
1  Keegan Bradley 4.00
2  Phil Mickelson 8.70
3  Tiger Woods 9.90
4  Henrik Stenson 10.10
5  Jason Dufner 11.90

Below are the top 5 players in the Power Rankings from Rob Bolton:
  1. Tiger Woods
  2. Henrik Stenson
  3. Keegan Bradley
  4. Zach Johnson
  5. Matt Kuchar
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 3 players in common in this tournament: Woods, Stenson, and Bradley.

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

Number of Past Tournaments Looking Back
NumberScoring Avg Weight (SA1)Earnings Avg Weight (EA1)
520%20%
Number of Days Looking Back
NumberScoring Avg Weight (SA2)Earnings Avg Weight (EA2)
3010%10%
Number of Tournaments Looking Back
NumberScoring Avg Weight (SA3)Earnings Avg Weight (EA3)
420%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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