The PGA Tour is getting into the meat of its Olympics-influenced schedule, with the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational moving up from the week before the PGA Championship into the July 4 weekend. Shane Lowry is the defending champion of a 61-player field, somewhat depleted because the European Tour chose not to co-sanction the event this year in […]
Shane Lowry channels Seve for WGC-Bridgestone win
August 10, 2015 by
Shane Lowry was ready for a moment like this. He just needed a few things to go his way. They did on Sunday at the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational, as the 28-year-old shot a bogey-free, 4-under 66 to win for the first time on the PGA Tour. His 11-under 269 total was good enough for a two-shot […]
Jim Furyk has built a four-shot edge at WGC-Bridgestone Invitational
August 8, 2015 by
Firestone Country Club’s South Course is a grind. Perhaps it’s no surprise, then, that a grinder is in control of the World Golf Championships event it hosts. Jim Furyk leads the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational by four shots after two rounds, sitting at 8-under 132 after a second-consecutive 66 in the morning wave. Starting on the 10th […]
Power rankings: WGC-Bridgestone Invitational
August 5, 2015 by
The PGA Tour offers its final pair of events before the season’s final major, with the world’s best gathered in Akron, Ohio, for the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational. Defending champion Rory McIlroy won’t be a part of the festivities at Firestone C.C. — and it’s increasingly looking like he won’t be at the PGA Championship either — […]
WGC-Bridgestone Invitational odds are out with Tiger Woods coming in a heavy favorite
July 30, 2013 by
You know what happens when you come to a golf course you’ve won at seven times after picking up four PGA Tour wins already in a season? You’re the favorite. The heavy, heavy favorite. That’s Tiger Woods this week at the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational at Firestone. Woods, coming off a T-6 finish at the British Open, […]
