2018 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational

2018 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational
Tournament information
Dates	August 2–5, 2018
Location	Akron, Ohio, U.S.; 41°00′29″N 81°30′29″W / 41.008°N 81.508°WCoordinates: 41°00′29″N 81°30′29″W / 41.008°N 81.508°W
Course(s)	Firestone Country Club; South Course
Tour(s)	PGA Tour; European Tour
Statistics
Par	70
Length	7,400 yards (6,767 m)
Field	71 players
Cut	None
Prize fund	$10,000,000
Winner's share	$1,700,000
Champion
	Justin Thomas
	265 (−15)
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The 2018 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational was a professional golf tournament held August 2–5 on the South Course of Firestone Country Club in Akron, Ohio. It was the 20th WGC-Bridgestone Invitational tournament, and the third of the World Golf Championships events in 2018.

Venue[]

Course layout[]

The South Course was designed by Bert Way and redesigned by Robert Trent Jones in 1960.^[1]

Hole	Yards	Par	Hole	Yards	Par
1	399	4	10	410	4
2	526	5	11	418	4
3	442	4	12	180	3
4	471	4	13	471	4
5	200	3	14	467	4
6	469	4	15	221	3
7	219	3	16	667	5
8	482	4	17	400	4
9	494	4	18	464	4
Out	3,702	35	In	3,698	35
Source:^[2]		Total		7,400	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 2017 United States and International Presidents Cup teams.

Daniel Berger (2,3), Kevin Chappell (2,3), Jason Day (2,3,4), Rickie Fowler (2,3), Branden Grace (2,3,4), Emiliano Grillo, Charley Hoffman (2,3), Dustin Johnson (2,3,4), Kim Si-woo, Kevin Kisner (2,3), Brooks Koepka (2,3,4), Matt Kuchar (2,3), Anirban Lahiri, Marc Leishman (2,3,4), Hideki Matsuyama (2,3,4), Phil Mickelson (2,3,4), Louis Oosthuizen (2,3), Patrick Reed (2,3,4), Charl Schwartzel (2,3), Adam Scott, Jordan Spieth (2,3), Justin Thomas (2,3,4), Jhonattan Vegas

Adam Hadwin did not play.^[4]

2. The top 50 players from the Official World Golf Ranking as of July 23, 2018.

Kiradech Aphibarnrat (3), Rafa Cabrera-Bello (3), Patrick Cantlay (3,4), Paul Casey (3,4), Bryson DeChambeau (3,4), Tony Finau (3), Ross Fisher (3), Matt Fitzpatrick (3,4), Tommy Fleetwood (3,4), Sergio García (3,4), Brian Harman (3), Tyrrell Hatton (3,4), Zach Johnson, Satoshi Kodaira (3,4), Li Haotong (3,4), Luke List (3), Rory McIlroy (3,4), Francesco Molinari (3,4), Kevin Na (3,4), Alex Norén (3,4), Pat Perez (3,4), Ian Poulter (3,4), Jon Rahm (3,4), Xander Schauffele (3,4), Webb Simpson (3,4), Cameron Smith (3,5), Kyle Stanley (3), Henrik Stenson (3,4), Bubba Watson (3,4), Gary Woodland (3,4), Tiger Woods (3)

Justin Rose (3,4,5) did not play.^[4]

3. The top 50 players from the Official World Golf Ranking as of July 30, 2018.

An Byeong-hun

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.^[5]

Alexander Björk, Austin Cook, Paul Dunne, Patton Kizzire, Russell Knox, Andrew Landry, Thorbjørn Olesen, Wade Ormsby, Ted Potter Jr., Shubhankar Sharma, Brendan Steele, Brandon Stone, Aaron Wise

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

Asian Tour: Indonesian Masters (2017) – Justin Rose, also qualified under categories 2, 3 and 4
PGA Tour of Australasia: Australian PGA Championship (2017) – Cameron Smith, also qualified under categories 2 and 3
Japan Golf Tour: Bridgestone Open (2017) – Ryuko Tokimatsu
Japan Golf Tour: Japan Golf Tour Championship (2018) – Kodai Ichihara
Sunshine Tour: Dimension Data Pro-Am – Jaco Ahlers

Nationalities in the field[]

North America (32)	South America (2)	Europe (17)	Oceania (5)	Asia (10)	Africa (5)
United States (32)	Argentina (1)	England (6)	Australia (5)	China (1)	South Africa (5)
	Venezuela (1)	Northern Ireland (1)		India (2)
		Scotland (1)		Japan (4)
		Ireland (1)		South Korea (2)
		Denmark (1)		Thailand (1)
		Italy (1)
		Spain (3)
		Sweden (3)

Past champions in the field[]

Player	Country	Year(s) won	R1	R2	R3	R4	Total	To par	Place
Dustin Johnson	United States	2016	69	71	66	64	270	−10	T3
Rory McIlroy	Northern Ireland	2014	65	67	67	73	272	−8	T6
Tiger Woods	United States	1999, 2000, 2001, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2013	66	68	73	73	280	E	T31
Hideki Matsuyama	Japan	2017	67	72	70	72	281	+1	T39
Adam Scott	Australia	2011	68	75	67	74	284	+4	T57

Round summaries[]

First round[]

Thursday, August 2, 2018

Ian Poulter shot an 8-under-par 62 to lead by one stroke over Rickie Fowler and Kyle Stanley. Defending champion Hideki Matsuyama was 5 strokes back at −3. Tiger Woods, eight-time winner of the event, was 4 strokes back at −4. His last PGA Tour win was at the 2013 event. The scoring average of 68.37 was the lowest opening round of a PGA Tour event this season.^[6]

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par
1	Ian Poulter	England	62	−8
T2	Rickie Fowler	United States	63	−7
T2	Kyle Stanley	United States	63	−7
T4	Patrick Cantlay	United States	64	−6
	Kim Si-woo	South Korea
	Jon Rahm	Spain
T7	Jason Day	Australia	65	−5
	Anirban Lahiri	India
	Marc Leishman	Australia
	Luke List	United States
	Rory McIlroy	Northern Ireland
	Kevin Na	United States
	Justin Thomas	United States

Second round[]

Friday, August 3, 2018

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par
T1	Tommy Fleetwood	England	66-63=129	−11
	Ian Poulter	England	62-67=129
	Justin Thomas	United States	65-64=129
T4	Jason Day	Australia	65-66=131	−9
T4	Kyle Stanley	United States	63-68=131	−9
T6	Kim Si-woo	South Korea	64-68=132	−8
T6	Rory McIlroy	Northern Ireland	65-67=132	−8
T8	Li Haotong	China	66-67=133	−7
T8	Luke List	United States	65-68=133	−7
T10	Tony Finau	United States	68-66=134	−6
	Marc Leishman	Australia	65-69=134
	Louis Oosthuizen	South Africa	68-66=134
	Jon Rahm	Spain	64-70=134
	Webb Simpson	United States	69-65=134
	Tiger Woods	United States	66-68=134

Third round[]

Saturday, August 4, 2018

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par
1	Justin Thomas	United States	65-64-67=196	−14
T2	Rory McIlroy	Northern Ireland	65-67-67=199	−11
T2	Ian Poulter	England	62-67-70=199	−11
4	Jason Day	Australia	65-66-69=200	−10
T5	Marc Leishman	Australia	65-69-67=201	��9
T5	Kyle Stanley	United States	63-68-70=201	��9
T7	Rickie Fowler	United States	63-74-65=202	−8
T7	Jon Rahm	Spain	64-70-68=202	−8
T9	Tommy Fleetwood	England	66-63-74=203	−7
T9	Louis Oosthuizen	South Africa	68-66-69=203	−7

Final round[]

Sunday, August 5, 2018

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par	Prize money (US$)
1	Justin Thomas	United States	65-64-67-69=265	−15	1,700,000
2	Kyle Stanley	United States	63-68-70-68=269	−11	1,072,000
T3	Dustin Johnson	United States	69-71-66-64=270	−10	510,000
T3	Thorbjørn Olesen	Denmark	71-67-68-64=270	−10	510,000
5	Brooks Koepka	United States	66-70-68-67=271	−9	357,000
T6	Patrick Cantlay	United States	64-72-68-68=272	−8	241,375
	Anirban Lahiri	India	65-70-69-68=272
	Rory McIlroy	Northern Ireland	65-67-67-73=272
	Aaron Wise	United States	67-71-67-67=272
T10	Jason Day	Australia	65-66-69-73=273	−7	160,875
	Tony Finau	United States	68-66-71-68=273
	Kim Si-woo	South Korea	64-68-72-69=273
	Ian Poulter	England	62-67-70-74=273

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
Thomas	−14	−15	−15	−15	−15	−14	−14	−14	−14	−14	−14	−14	−15	−15	−15	−15	−15	−15
Stanley	−9	−8	−8	−8	−9	−9	−9	−10	−10	−11	−11	−12	−11	−10	−10	−11	−11	−11
Johnson	−5	−6	−7	−8	−8	−9	−9	−10	−10	−11	−11	−11	−11	−11	−11	−11	−11	−10
Olesen	−4	−5	−5	−4	−4	−4	−5	−5	−6	−6	−7	−7	−7	−8	−9	−9	−10	−10
Koepka	−6	−7	−7	−5	−5	−6	−6	−7	−7	−6	−7	−7	−8	−9	−8	−9	−9	−9

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par

	Birdie		Bogey		Double bogey

References[]

^ "Courses". Firestone Country Club. 2013. Retrieved March 1, 2013.
^ "WGC Bridgestone Invitational – Course". PGA Tour. 2017. Retrieved April 7, 2017.
^ "2018 Qualifiers for majors, The Players, WGCs". PGA Tour. Retrieved October 8, 2017.
^ ^a ^b Beall, Joel (August 1, 2018). "Justin Rose withdraws from WGC-Bridgestone Invitational with back injury". Golf Digest.
^ The 'Strength of Field Rating' is a loose term for what the Official World Golf Ranking calls the 'Total Rating Value' (see Event ranking).
^ "Motivated Ian Poulter holds first-round lead at Bridgestone Invitational". ESPN. August 2, 2018.

External links[]

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

[course-2] "WGC Bridgestone Invitational – Course". PGA Tour. 2017. Retrieved April 7, 2017.

[3] "2018 Qualifiers for majors, The Players, WGCs". PGA Tour. Retrieved October 8, 2017.

[rose-4] Beall, Joel (August 1, 2018). "Justin Rose withdraws from WGC-Bridgestone Invitational with back injury". Golf Digest.

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

[6] "Motivated Ian Poulter holds first-round lead at Bridgestone Invitational". ESPN. August 2, 2018.

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