2012 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational explained

2012 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational
Dates:	August 2–5, 2012
Location:	Akron, Ohio, U.S.
Course:	Firestone Country Club South Course
Tour:	PGA Tour European Tour
Par:	70
Yardage:	7400yd
Field:	78 players
Cut:	None
Purse:	$8,500,000 €6,770,017
Winners Share:	$1,400,000 €1,131,130
Champion:	Keegan Bradley
Score:	267 (−13)
Previous:	2011
Next:	2013

The 2012 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 14th WGC-Bridgestone Invitational tournament, and the third of four World Golf Championships events held in 2012. Keegan Bradley shot a 64 (−6) in the final round to finish with 267 (−13) to win his first WGC event, one stroke ahead of runners-up Jim Furyk and Steve Stricker.^[1]

Venue

See main article: Firestone Country Club.

Course layout

The South Course was designed by Bert Way and redesigned by Robert Trent Jones in 1960.^{[2] [3]}

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 world-wide tournaments with the strongest fields.^{[4] [5]}

1. Playing members of the 2011 United States and International Presidents Cup teams.
Robert Allenby, Aaron Baddeley, K. J. Choi (2,3), Jason Day (2,3), Ernie Els (2,3,4), Jim Furyk (2,3), Retief Goosen, Bill Haas (2,3,4), Ryo Ishikawa, Dustin Johnson (2,3,4), Matt Kuchar (2,3,4), Kim Kyung-tae, Hunter Mahan (2,3,4), Phil Mickelson (2,3,4), Geoff Ogilvy (2,3), Charl Schwartzel (2,3), Adam Scott (2,3,4), Steve Stricker (2,3,4), David Toms (2,3), Nick Watney (2,3), Bubba Watson (2,3,4), Tiger Woods (2,3,4), Y. E. Yang

• Webb Simpson (2,3,4) did not compete for personal reasons.^[6]

2. The top 50 players from the Official World Golf Ranking as of July 23, 2012.^[7]
Bae Sang-moon (3), Thomas Bjørn (3,4), Keegan Bradley (3,4), Jonathan Byrd (3), Rafa Cabrera-Bello (3,4), Nicolas Colsaerts (3,4), Luke Donald (3,4), Jason Dufner (3,4), Simon Dyson (3,4), Gonzalo Fernández-Castaño (3,4), Rickie Fowler (3,4), Sergio García (3,4), Peter Hanson (3), Freddie Jacobson (3), Zach Johnson (3,4), Martin Kaymer (3,4), Martin Laird (3), Paul Lawrie (3,4), Graeme McDowell (3), Rory McIlroy (3,4), Francesco Molinari (3,4), Kevin Na (3), Louis Oosthuizen (3,4), Carl Pettersson (3,4), Ian Poulter (3,5), Álvaro Quirós (3,4), Justin Rose (3,4), John Senden (3), Brandt Snedeker (3,4), Bo Van Pelt (3), Lee Westwood (3,5), Mark Wilson (3,4)

3. The top 50 players from the Official World Golf Ranking as of July 30, 2012.^[8]

4. Tournament winners of worldwide events since the prior year's tournament with an Official World Golf Ranking Strength of Field Rating of 115 points or more.^[9]
Greg Chalmers, Ben Crane, Jamie Donaldson, Branden Grace, Michael Hoey, Thongchai Jaidee, Marc Leishman, Tom Lewis, Joost Luiten, Toshinori Muto, Scott Piercy, Ted Potter Jr., Robert Rock, Marcel Siem, Jeev Milkha Singh, Lee Slattery, Kyle Stanley, Johnson Wagner, Bernd Wiesberger, Danny Willett

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

• Asian Tour

Thailand Golf Championship (2011)^[10] – Lee Westwood, also qualified in categories 2 and 3

• PGA Tour of Australasia

JBWere Masters (2011) – Ian Poulter, also qualified in categories 2 and 3

• Japan Golf Tour

Bridgestone Open (2011) – Toru Taniguchi

• Japan Golf Tour

Japan Golf Tour Championship (2012) – Yoshinori Fujimoto

• Sunshine Tour

Dimension Data Pro-Am (2012) – Oliver Bekker

Nine of the field were appearing in their first WGC event: Oliver Bekker, Jamie Donaldson, Yoshinori Fujimoto, Joost Luiten, Toshinori Muto, Scott Piercy, Ted Potter Jr., Marcel Siem and Bernd Wiesberger.

Round summaries

First round

Thursday, August 2, 2012

Place	Player	Score	To par
1		63	−7
2		65	−5
T3		66	−4
	Ben Crane
	Luke Donald
	Simon Dyson
	John Senden
	Bubba Watson
T9		67	−3
	Jason Dufner
	Sergio García
	Retief Goosen
	Bill Haas
	Kim Kyung-tae
	Geoff Ogilvy
	Louis Oosthuizen
	Carl Pettersson

Source:^[11]

Second round

Friday, August 3, 2012

Place	Player	Score	To par
1		63-66=129	−11
2		66-65=131	−9
3		67-65=132	−8
4		67-66=133	−7
5		67-67=134	−6
T6		66-69=135	−5
		68-67=135
T8		67-69=136	−4
		66-70=136
		65-71=136
		68-68=136

Source:^[11]

Third round

Saturday, August 4, 2012

Place	Player	Score	To par
1		63-66-70=199	−11
2		67-65-68=200	−10
3		67-69-67=203	−7
T4		70-67-67=204	−6
		68-68-68=204
T6		70-69-66=205	−5
		66-70-69=205
		70-69-66=205
T9		66-69-71=206	−4
		67-66-73=206

Source:^[11]

Final round

Sunday, August 5, 2012

Place	Player	Score	To par	Money ($)
1	Keegan Bradley	67-69-67-64=267	−13	1,400,000
T2		63-66-70-69=268	−12	665,000
		68-68-68-64=268
4		67-65-68-69=269	−11	365,000
T5		70-67-67-68=272	−8	276,500
		70-69-66-67=272
7		67-66-73-68=274	−6	210,000
T8	Aaron Baddeley	73-66-71-66=276	−4	128,750
	K. J. Choi	71-72-67-66=276
	Luke Donald	66-69-71-70=276
	Matt Kuchar	70-70-70-66=276
	Lee Slattery	65-71-72-68=276
	David Toms	68-67-73-68=276
	Bo Van Pelt	70-69-66-71=276
	Tiger Woods	70-72-68-66=276

Source:^[11]

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
Bradley	−7	−7	−8	−8	−8	−8	−9	−9	−9	−10	−11	−11	−11	−12	−12	−13	−13	−13
Furyk	−12	−13	−14	−14	−14	−13	−13	−13	−13	−13	−13	−13	−13	−13	−13	−14	−14	−12
Stricker	−6	−6	−6	−6	−7	−7	−7	−8	−8	−8	−8	−8	−8	−9	−9	−10	−11	−12
Oosthuizen	−11	−12	−12	−12	−11	−11	−11	−11	−10	−9	−9	−10	−10	−10	−10	−11	−11	−11
McIlroy	−6	−7	−8	−8	−8	−8	−8	−8	−7	−7	−7	−7	−7	−7	−8	−8	−8	−8
Rose	−5	−6	−7	−7	−7	−7	−7	−7	−7	−6	−6	−7	−7	−7	−7	−8	−8	−8

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par

Double Eagle

Eagle -->

Birdie

Bogey

Double bogey

Triple bogey+ -->

Source:^[11]

External links

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

41.008°N -81.508°W

Notes and References

1. News: Keegan Bradley wins after 64 . ESPN . Associated Press . August 6, 2012 . February 22, 2013.
2. Web site: Courses. Firestone Country Club. 2012. July 23, 2012.
3. Web site: Inside the course: Firestone Country Club . worldgolfchampionships.com . 2012 . July 31, 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120801210656/http://www.worldgolfchampionships.com/2012/tournaments/r476/07/30/inside.the.course/index.html . August 1, 2012 . dead . mdy-all .
4. Web site: How players qualify . July 24, 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120801063505/http://www.worldgolfchampionships.com/tournaments/r476/field-qualify/ . August 1, 2012 . dead . mdy-all .
5. Web site: Past and Future Championships . July 24, 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120717053919/http://www.worldgolfchampionships.com/wgc/pastfuturechampionships/index.html . July 17, 2012 . dead . mdy-all .
6. News: Webb Simpson out of Bridgestone . ESPN . Bob . Harig . 29 July 2012.
7. http://dps.endavadigital.net/owgr/doc/content/archive/2012/owgr29f2012.pdf Official World Golf Ranking – July 22, 2012
8. http://dps.endavadigital.net/owgr/doc/content/archive/2012/owgr30f2012.pdf Official World Golf Ranking – July 29, 2012
9. The 'Strength of Field Rating' is a loose term for what the Official World Golf Ranking calls the 'Total Rating Value' (see Event Ranking).
10. Web site: Stars to Help Launch Thailand Golf Championship . https://archive.today/20130117075915/http://www.asiantour.com/news.aspx?sid=20110802164604501176 . dead . January 17, 2013 . July 24, 2012 .
11. News: WGC-Bridgestone Invitational . ESPN . August 5, 2012 . July 25, 2017.