2012 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational

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]

2012 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational

Tournament information
Dates	August 2–5, 2012
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	78 players
Cut	None
Prize fund	$8,500,000 €6,770,017
Winner's share	$1,400,000 €1,131,130
Champion
Keegan Bradley
267 (−13)
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Akron 

Location in the United States

Firestone CC

Location in Ohio

Venue

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	Jim Furyk	63	−7
2	Lee Slattery	65	−5
T3	Rafa Cabrera-Bello	66	−4
	Ben Crane
	Luke Donald
	Simon Dyson
	John Senden
	Bubba Watson
T9	Keegan Bradley	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	Jim Furyk	63-66=129	−11
2	Rafa Cabrera-Bello	66-65=131	−9
3	Louis Oosthuizen	67-65=132	−8
4	Jason Dufner	67-66=133	−7
5	Kim Kyung-tae	67-67=134	−6
T6	Luke Donald	66-69=135	−5
	David Toms	68-67=135
T8	Keegan Bradley	67-69=136	−4
	John Senden	66-70=136
	Lee Slattery	65-71=136
	Steve Stricker	68-68=136

Source:^[11]

Third round

Saturday, August 4, 2012

Place	Player	Score	To par
1	Jim Furyk	63-66-70=199	−11
2	Louis Oosthuizen	67-65-68=200	−10
3	Keegan Bradley	67-69-67=203	−7
T4	Rory McIlroy	70-67-67=204	−6
	Steve Stricker	68-68-68=204
T6	Justin Rose	70-69-66=205	−5
	John Senden	66-70-69=205
	Bo Van Pelt	70-69-66=205
T9	Luke Donald	66-69-71=206	−4
	Jason Dufner	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	Jim Furyk	63-66-70-69=268	−12	665,000
	Steve Stricker	68-68-68-64=268
4	Louis Oosthuizen	67-65-68-69=269	−11	365,000
T5	Rory McIlroy	70-67-67-68=272	−8	276,500
	Justin Rose	70-69-66-67=272
7	Jason Dufner	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

Birdie

Bogey

Double bogey

Source:^[11]