2014 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational

The 2014 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational was a professional golf tournament held July 31 – August 3 on the South Course of Firestone Country Club in Akron, Ohio. It was the 16th WGC-Bridgestone Invitational tournament, and the third of the World Golf Championships events in 2014. Rory McIlroy won the tournament.[1]

2014 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational

Tournament information
Dates	July 31 – August 3, 2014
Location	Akron, Ohio, U.S.
Course(s)	Firestone Country Club South Course
Tour(s)	PGA Tour European Tour
Statistics
Par	70
Length	7,400 yards (6,767 m)
Field	76 players
Cut	None
Prize fund	$9,000,000 €6,703,418
Winner's share	$1,530,000 €1,139,580
Champion
Rory McIlroy
265 (−15)

Akron 

Location in the United States

Firestone CC

Location in Ohio

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 consists of players drawn primarily from the Official World Golf Ranking and the winners of the world-wide tournaments with the strongest fields.[3]

1. Playing members of the 2013 United States and International Presidents Cup teams.

Keegan Bradley (2,3), Ángel Cabrera (4), Jason Day (2,3), Brendon de Jonge, Graham DeLaet (2,3), Jason Dufner (2,3,4), Ernie Els, Branden Grace, Bill Haas (2,3), Zach Johnson (2,3,4), Matt Kuchar (2,3,4), Marc Leishman, Hunter Mahan (2,3), Hideki Matsuyama (2,3), Phil Mickelson (2,3), Louis Oosthuizen (4), Charl Schwartzel (2,3), Adam Scott (2,3,4,5), Webb Simpson (2,3,4), Brandt Snedeker (2,3), Jordan Spieth (2,3), Richard Sterne, Steve Stricker (2,3), Tiger Woods (2,3)

2. The top 50 players from the Official World Golf Ranking as of July 21, 2014.

Thomas Bjørn (3,4), Jonas Blixt (3), Luke Donald (3,4), Jamie Donaldson (3), Victor Dubuisson (3,4), Harris English (3), Matt Every (3,4), Rickie Fowler (3), Jim Furyk (3), Stephen Gallacher (3,4), Sergio García (3,4,5), Mikko Ilonen (3,4), Thongchai Jaidee (3,4), Miguel Ángel Jiménez (3,4), Martin Kaymer (3,4), Chris Kirk (3,4), Joost Luiten (3), Graeme McDowell (3,4), Rory McIlroy (3,4), Francesco Molinari (3), Ryan Moore (3,4), Kevin Na (3), Ian Poulter (3), Patrick Reed (3,4), Justin Rose (3,4), Henrik Stenson (3,4), Kevin Streelman (3,4), Brendon Todd (3,4), Jimmy Walker (3,4), Bubba Watson (3,4), Lee Westwood (3,4), Gary Woodland (3)

Dustin Johnson (3,4) withdrew prior to the tournament[4]

3. The top 50 players from the Official World Golf Ranking as of July 28, 2014.

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]

Steven Bowditch, Tim Clark, Ben Crane, Gonzalo Fernández-Castaño, Brian Harman, Russell Henley, J. B. Holmes, David Howell, Matt Jones, Pablo Larrazábal, Alexander Lévy, David Lynn, Noh Seung-yul, John Senden, Kevin Stadler, Scott Stallings, Fabrizio Zanotti

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

• Asian Tour: Thailand Golf Championship (2013) – Sergio García (already qualified under categories 2 and 4)
• PGA Tour of Australasia: Australian PGA Championship (2013) – Adam Scott (already qualified under categories 1, 2 and 4)
• Japan Golf Tour: Bridgestone Open (2013) – Daisuke Maruyama
• Japan Golf Tour: Japan Golf Tour Championship – Yoshitaka Takeya
• Sunshine Tour: Dimension Data Pro-Am – Estanislao Goya

Nine players were appearing in their first WGC event: Steven Bowditch, Matt Every, Estanislao Goya, Brian Harman, Matt Jones, Alexander Lévy, Yoshitaka Takeya, Brendon Todd and Fabrizio Zanotti.

Nationalities in the field

North America (32)	South America (3)	Europe (23)	Oceania (6)	Asia (5)	Africa (7)
Canada (1)	Argentina (2)	England (6)	Australia (6)	Japan (3)	South Africa (6)
United States (31)	Paraguay (1)	Northern Ireland (2)		South Korea (1)	Zimbabwe (1)
		Scotland (1)		Thailand (1)
		Wales (1)
		Denmark (1)
		Spain (4)
		Finland (1)
		France (2)
		Germany (1)
		Italy (1)
		Netherlands (1)
		Sweden (2)

Past champions in the field

Player	Country	Year(s) won	R1	R2	R3	R4	Total	To par	Place
Keegan Bradley	United States	2012	68	67	67	69	271	−9	T4
Adam Scott	Australia	2011	69	68	65	71	273	−7	T8
Hunter Mahan	United States	2010	71	65	71	68	275	−5	T15
Tiger Woods	United States	1999, 2000, 2001, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2013	68	71	72	WD

Source:[6]

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, July 31, 2014

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par
1	Marc Leishman	Australia	64	−6
T2	Ryan Moore	United States	65	−5
	Justin Rose	England
	Charl Schwartzel	South Africa
T5	Graham DeLaet	Canada	67	−3
	Rickie Fowler	United States
	Francesco Molinari	Italy
	Patrick Reed	United States
T9	Keegan Bradley	United States	68	−2
	Jamie Donaldson	Wales
	Sergio García	Spain
	Brandt Snedeker	United States
	Tiger Woods	United States

Source:[6]

Second round

Friday, August 1, 2014

Sergio García birdied his last seven holes, tying the course record of 61 (−9), which included a new course record of 27 (−8) on the back nine.[6][7]

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par
1	Sergio García	Spain	68-61=129	−11
2	Justin Rose	England	65-67=132	−8
T3	Marc Leishman	Australia	64-69=133	−7
	Rory McIlroy	Northern Ireland	69-64=133
T5	Rickie Fowler	United States	67-67=134	−6
	Charl Schwartzel	South Africa	65-69=134
T7	Keegan Bradley	United States	68-67=135	−5
	Patrick Reed	United States	67-68=135
T9	Graham DeLaet	Canada	67-69=136	−4
	Hunter Mahan	United States	71-65=136
	Brandt Snedeker	United States	68-68=136

Source:[6]

Third round

Saturday, August 2, 2014

With threatening weather in the forecast, the field went off early in the morning from split tees in threesomes. A weather delay in the early afternoon affected the final several groups, but all rounds were finished.

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par
1	Sergio García	Spain	68-61-67=196	−14
2	Rory McIlroy	Northern Ireland	69-64-66=199	−11
3	Marc Leishman	Australia	64-69-68=201	−9
T4	Keegan Bradley	United States	68-67-67=202	−8
	Justin Rose	England	65-67-70=202
	Adam Scott	Australia	69-68-65=202
7	Brandt Snedeker	United States	68-68-68=204	−6
T8	J. B. Holmes	United States	69-69-67=205	−5
	Henrik Stenson	Sweden	71-66-68=205
T10	Thomas Bjørn	Denmark	69-68-69=206	−4
	Harris English	United States	69-69-68=206
	Rickie Fowler	United States	67-67-72=206
	Jim Furyk	United States	69-68-69=206
	Hideki Matsuyama	Japan	70-71-65=206
	Ryan Moore	United States	65-73-68=206
	Patrick Reed	United States	67-68-71=206
	Gary Woodland	United States	70-68-68=206

Source:[6]

Final round

Sunday, August 3, 2014

The field went off the first tee in conventional pairs on Sunday, but a midday weather delay of over an hour was incurred before half the field teed off.

Place	Player	Country	Score	To par	Money ($)
1	Rory McIlroy	Northern Ireland	69-64-66-66=265	−15	1,530,000
2	Sergio García	Spain	68-61-67-71=267	−13	900,000
3	Marc Leishman	Australia	64-69-68-67=268	−12	522,000
T4	Keegan Bradley	United States	68-67-67-69=271	−9	308,000
	Patrick Reed	United States	67-68-71-65=271
	Justin Rose	England	65-67-70-69=271
	Charl Schwartzel	South Africa	65-69-73-64=271
T8	Rickie Fowler	United States	67-67-72-67=273	−7	170,000
	Graeme McDowell	Northern Ireland	71-70-66-66=273
	Ryan Moore	United States	65-73-68-67=273
	Adam Scott	Australia	69-68-65-71=273

Source:[6][8]

Scorecard

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
McIlroy	−12	−13	−14	−14	−15	−15	−15	−14	−14	−14	−15	−15	−15	−15	−15	−15	−15	−15
García	−14	−14	−13	−13	−13	−13	−13	−13	−14	−14	−14	−14	−14	−14	−13	−13	−13	−13
Leishman	−9	−10	−11	−10	−10	−9	−10	−11	−11	−11	−11	−12	−12	−11	−11	−12	−12	−12
Bradley	−9	−9	−9	−10	−10	−10	−11	−11	−11	−11	−12	−11	−11	−10	−10	−9	−9	−9
Rose	−8	−10	−10	−10	−9	−8	−9	−9	−9	−9	−9	−10	−10	−10	−9	−9	−9	−9
Scott	−8	−9	−9	−9	−9	−9	−9	−9	−9	−10	−10	−10	−10	−9	−8	−7	−7	−7

Eagle

Birdie

Bogey

Source:[6][8]

References

1. "Rory McIlroy wins WGC Bridgestone Invitational and marches back to world No 1 spot in form of his life". Daily Telegraph. August 4, 2014.
2. "Courses". Firestone Country Club. 2013. Retrieved March 1, 2013.
3. "How players qualify". Retrieved March 1, 2013.
4. Ridenour, Marla (July 29, 2014). "Dustin Johnson withdraws, leaves field at 76". Akron Beacon Journal.
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. "WGC-Bridgestone Invitational". ESPN. August 3, 2014. Retrieved July 25, 2017.
7. Ferguson, Doug (August 1, 2014). "Sergio Garcia shoots 61 to take Firestone lead". Yahoo! Sports. Associated Press.
8. "Leaderboard: WGC-Bridgestone Invitational". Yahoo! Sports. August 3, 2014. Retrieved August 4, 2014.

External links

• Official website
• Coverage on European Tour's official site
• Firestone Country Club site