2016 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational

2016 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational
Tournament information
Dates	June 30 – July 3, 2016
Location	Akron, Ohio, U.S.
Course(s)	Firestone Country Club; South Course
Tour(s)	PGA Tour; (not a European Tour event in 2016)
Statistics
Par	70
Length	7,400 yards (6,767 m)
Field	61 players
Cut	None
Prize fund	$9.5 million
Winner's share	$1.62 million
Champion
	Dustin Johnson
	274 (−6)
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Akron

Location in the United States

Firestone CC

Location in Ohio

The 2016 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational was a professional golf tournament played June 30 – July 3 on the South Course of Firestone Country Club in Akron, Ohio. It was the 18th WGC-Bridgestone Invitational tournament, and the third of the World Golf Championships events in 2016.

The event was played more than a month earlier than usual, due to the 2016 Summer Olympics. It was only sanctioned by the PGA Tour, because it ran opposite the Open de France the European Tour did not co-sanction the tournament this year.

Dustin Johnson won his first WGC-Bridgestone Invitational and third WGC overall.^[1]

Venue[]

Course layout[]

The South Course was designed by Bert Way and redesigned by Robert Trent Jones in 1960.^[2]

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Out	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	In	Total
Yards	399	526	442	471	200	469	219	482	494	3702	410	418	180	471	467	221	667	400	464	3698	7400
Par	4	5	4	4	3	4	3	4	4	35	4	4	3	4	4	3	5	4	4	35	70

Field[]

The field consisted of players drawn primarily from the Official World Golf Ranking and the winners of the worldwide tournaments with the strongest fields.^[3]

1. Playing members of the 2015 United States and International Presidents Cup teams.

Steven Bowditch, Jason Day (2,3,4), Rickie Fowler (2,3,4), Branden Grace (2,3,4), Bill Haas (2,3), J. B. Holmes (2,3), Dustin Johnson (2,3,4), Zach Johnson (2,3), Chris Kirk, Matt Kuchar (2,3), Anirban Lahiri, Danny Lee (2,3), Marc Leishman (2,3,4), Hideki Matsuyama (2,3,4), Phil Mickelson (2,3), Louis Oosthuizen (2,3), Patrick Reed (2,3), Charl Schwartzel (2,3,4), Adam Scott (2,3,4), Jordan Spieth (2,3,4), Jimmy Walker (2,3), Bubba Watson (2,3,4)

Bae Sang-moon was unable to compete due to a military obligation in South Korea.
Thongchai Jaidee (4) opted to compete in the Open de France.

2. The top 50 players from the Official World Golf Ranking as of June 20, 2016.

An Byeong-hun (3), Daniel Berger (3,4), Paul Casey (3), Kevin Chappell (3), Harris English, Jim Furyk (3), Emiliano Grillo (3,4), Charley Hoffman (3,4), Kim Kyung-tae (3), Kevin Kisner (3,4), Søren Kjeldsen (3), Russell Knox (3,4), Brooks Koepka (3), David Lingmerth (3), Shane Lowry (3,4), William McGirt (3,4), Kevin Na (3), Scott Piercy (3), Justin Rose (3,4), Brandt Snedeker (3,4), Justin Thomas (3,4)

Rafa Cabrera-Bello (3), Matt Fitzpatrick (3,4), Rory McIlroy (3,4), Andy Sullivan (3), Lee Westwood (3), Bernd Wiesberger (3), Danny Willett (3,4), and Chris Wood (3,4) opted to compete in the Open de France.
Sergio García (3,4) and Henrik Stenson (3,4) did not play.

3. The top 50 players from the Official World Golf Ranking as of June 27, 2016.

Kiradech Aphibarnrat

4. Tournament winners, whose victories are considered official, of tournaments from the Federation Tours since the prior season's Bridgestone Invitational with an Official World Golf Ranking Strength of Field Rating of 115 points or more.^[4]

Jason Dufner, Marcus Fraser, Fabián Gómez, James Hahn, Jim Herman, Billy Hurley III, Andrew Johnston, Matt Jones, Smylie Kaufman, Davis Love III, Song Young-han, Brian Stuard, Vaughn Taylor

Kristoffer Broberg, Victor Dubuisson, and Thorbjørn Olesen opted to compete in the Open de France.

5. The winner of selected tournaments from each of the following tours:

Asian Tour: Thailand Golf Championship (2015) – Jamie Donaldson (opted to compete in the Open de France)
PGA Tour of Australasia: Australian PGA Championship (2015)^[5] – Nathan Holman
Japan Golf Tour: Bridgestone Open (2015) – Michio Matsumura
Japan Golf Tour: Japan Golf Tour Championship – Yosuke Tsukada
Sunshine Tour: Dimension Data Pro-Am – George Coetzee

Nationalities in the field[]

North America (32)	South America (2)	Europe (7)	Oceania (8)	Asia (8)	Africa (4)
United States (32)	Argentina (2)	England (3)	Australia (7)	India (1)	South Africa (4)
		Scotland (1)	New Zealand (1)	Japan (3)
		Ireland (1)		South Korea (3)
		Denmark (1)		Thailand (1)
		Sweden (1)

Past champions in the field[]

Player	Country	Year won	R1	R2	R3	R4	Total	To par	Place
Adam Scott	Australia	2011	71	68	73	68	280	E	T10
Shane Lowry	Ireland	2015	76	72	70	68	286	+6	T36

Source:^[6]

Round summaries[]

First round[]

Thursday, June 30, 2016

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par
1	William McGirt	United States	64	−6
T2	Jason Day	Australia	67	−3
	Emiliano Grillo	Argentina
	Jimmy Walker	United States
T5	Rickie Fowler	United States	68	−2
	Charley Hoffman	United States
	Anirban Lahiri	India
	Jordan Spieth	United States
T9	Harris English	United States	69	−1
	Branden Grace	South Africa
	Billy Hurley III	United States
	Dustin Johnson	United States
	Kevin Kisner	United States
	Matt Kuchar	United States
	Scott Piercy	United States
	Justin Rose	England
	Vaughn Taylor	United States

Source^[6]

Second round[]

Friday, July 1, 2016

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par
1	Jason Day	Australia	67-69=136	−4
2	David Lingmerth	Sweden	70-67=137	−3
T3	Emiliano Grillo	Argentina	67-71=138	−2
	William McGirt	United States	64-74=138
	Scott Piercy	United States	69-69=138
T6	Kevin Kisner	United States	69-70=139	−1
	Adam Scott	Australia	71-68=139
	Jordan Spieth	United States	68-71=139
	Justin Thomas	United States	70-69=139
T10	Kevin Na	United States	71-69=140	E
	Song Young-han	South Korea	70-70=140
	Brian Stuard	United States	71-69=140
	Jimmy Walker	United States	67-73=140

Source^[6]

Third round[]

Saturday, July 2, 2016

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par
T1	Jason Day	Australia	67-69-69=205	−5
T1	Scott Piercy	United States	69-69-67=205	−5
3	David Lingmerth	Sweden	70-67-69=206	−4
4	Brian Stuard	United States	71-69-67=207	−3
T5	Dustin Johnson	United States	69-73-66=208	−2
	William McGirt	United States	64-74-70=208
	Charl Schwartzel	South Africa	72-69-67=208
T8	Emiliano Grillo	Argentina	67-71-71=209	−1
T8	Justin Thomas	United States	70-69-70=209	−1
T10	Kevin Chappell	United States	71-70-69=210	E
T10	Jordan Spieth	United States	68-71-71=210	E

Source^[6]

Final round[]

Sunday, July 3, 2016

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par	Money ($)
1	Dustin Johnson	United States	69-73-66-66=274	−6	1,620,000
2	Scott Piercy	United States	69-69-67-70=275	−5	1,018,000
T3	Kevin Chappell	United States	71-70-69-67=277	−3	449,250
	Jason Day	Australia	67-69-69-72=277
	Matt Kuchar	United States	69-72-70-66=277
	Jordan Spieth	United States	68-71-71-67=277
T7	David Lingmerth	Sweden	70-67-69-72=278	−2	233,333
	William McGirt	United States	64-74-70-70=278
	Charl Schwartzel	South Africa	72-69-67-70=278
T10	Rickie Fowler	United States	68-73-72-67=280	E	167,750
	Branden Grace	South Africa	69-72-71-68=280
	Zach Johnson	United States	72-74-69-65=280
	Adam Scott	Australia	71-68-73-68=280

Source^[6]^[7]

Scorecard[]

Final round

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Par	4	5	4	4	3	4	3	4	4	4	4	3	4	4	3	5	4	4
Johnson	−2	−3	−2	−2	−3	−4	−4	−4	−4	−4	−4	−4	−5	−6	−6	−6	−7	−6
Piercy	−5	−5	−5	−5	−5	−5	−5	−6	−5	−6	−6	−5	−4	−5	−4	−4	−4	−5
Chappell	E	−2	−3	−3	−3	−3	−4	−5	−5	−5	−4	−4	−5	−4	−3	−3	−3	−3
Day	−5	−7	−7	−7	−7	−7	−7	−7	−6	−7	−7	−7	−7	−7	−6	−4	−4	−3
Kuchar	+1	E	E	E	E	E	E	E	−1	−1	−1	−1	−1	−1	−1	−2	−2	−3
Spieth	E	E	+1	+1	+1	E	−1	−1	−1	−1	−2	−3	−3	−3	−3	−3	−3	−3
Lingmerth	−4	−4	−4	−4	−4	−5	−4	−4	−4	−4	−4	−4	−3	−3	−3	−2	−2	−2
McGirt	−2	−3	−3	−3	−3	−3	−3	−3	−3	−3	−3	−3	−3	−3	−3	−2	−2	−2
Schwartzel	−2	−2	−2	−1	−1	E	−1	−1	−1	−1	−2	−2	−2	−2	−2	−2	−2	−2

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par

	Eagle		Birdie		Bogey		Double bogey

Source^[6]

References[]

^ "Dustin Johnson wins the Bridgestone Invitational for 2nd straight victory". ESPN. Associated Press. July 3, 2016.
^ "Courses". Firestone Country Club. 2013. Retrieved March 1, 2013.
^ "Inside the Field: WGC-Bridgestone Invitational". PGA Tour. June 29, 2016.
^ The 'Strength of Field Rating' is a loose term for what the Official World Golf Ranking calls the 'Total Rating Value' (see Event ranking).
^ "New sanctioning agreement for 2015 Australian PGA Championship". Archived from the original on October 6, 2015. Retrieved September 8, 2015.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "WGC-Bridgestone Invitational". ESPN. July 3, 2016. Retrieved July 25, 2017.
^ "World Golf Championships-Bridgestone Invitational". World Golf Championship. July 3, 2016. Retrieved July 3, 2016.

External links[]

Coordinates: 41°00′29″N 81°30′29″W / 41.008°N 81.508°W / 41.008; -81.508

[1] "Dustin Johnson wins the Bridgestone Invitational for 2nd straight victory". ESPN. Associated Press. July 3, 2016.

[2] "Courses". Firestone Country Club. 2013. Retrieved March 1, 2013.

[3] "Inside the Field: WGC-Bridgestone Invitational". PGA Tour. June 29, 2016.

[4] The 'Strength of Field Rating' is a loose term for what the Official World Golf Ranking calls the 'Total Rating Value' (see Event ranking).

[5] "New sanctioning agreement for 2015 Australian PGA Championship". Archived from the original on October 6, 2015. Retrieved September 8, 2015.

[espnldr-6] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "WGC-Bridgestone Invitational". ESPN. July 3, 2016. Retrieved July 25, 2017.

[7] "World Golf Championships-Bridgestone Invitational". World Golf Championship. July 3, 2016. Retrieved July 3, 2016.

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