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Tournaments / 2013-2014

World Golf Championships-Bridgestone Invitational

2014-07-31 · Firestone CC (South)

Winner
Rory McIlroy
Winning score
-15
Field
75
Field strength
+0.705 SG

The 2013-2014 World Golf Championships-Bridgestone Invitational was played at Firestone CC (South), starting 31 July 2014. Rory McIlroy won at 15 under par (265), 2 strokes ahead of Sergio Garcia. The winning card was 69, 64, 66 and 66, and the win paid $1,530,000. Sergio Garcia finished second, and Marc Leishman was third. 75 players started the event. The field averaged +0.705 strokes gained per round against the tour baseline, with strokes-gained data covering 73% of the players. The full leaderboard below lists every player's finish position, round scores and total to par. Every figure on this page comes from the PGA Tour's published final leaderboard for the event — nothing here is estimated or modelled.

Final leaderboard

Top 20 of 75. Search finds any player in the field, including those who missed the cut.

Model score

Backtest · reconstructed

Our course-fit model re-run as it would have seen this week — using only data that existed before the first tee shot — then compared with how the 71 players actually finished. It was not published in advance, so this measures the model, not a call we made.

Agrade
Rank correlation
+0.482
Top-20 hit rate
55%
Top-10 avg model rank
18.3

Grade is this event’s percentile (95th) against every other event we have scored — not an absolute pass mark. Rank correlation runs −1 to +1, where 0 is a coin flip and a full-field golf model landing near +0.35 is a genuine read.

Who the model liked

Its top 10, and where they finished.

PlayerModelFinish
Steve Stricker1st63rd
Justin Rose2nd4th
Henrik Stenson3rd19th
Jim Furyk4th15th
Jordan Spieth5th49th
Rory McIlroy6th1st
Matt Kuchar7th12th
Adam Scott8th8th
Sergio Garcia9th2nd
Keegan Bradley10th4th

Where it was most wrong

Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.

PlayerModelFinish
Steve Stricker1st63rd(+62)
Branden Grace69th23rd(46)
Jordan Spieth5th49th(+44)
Patrick Reed48th4th(44)
Jason Dufner24th66th(+42)
Marc Leishman44th3rd(41)
Thomas Bjørn56th15th(41)
Louis Oosthuizen22nd61st(+39)
Luke Donald14th50th(+36)
Fabrizio Zanotti61st26th(35)

One known caveat. Player stats, form and course history are all restricted to what existed before this event. The course archetype is not — it is derived from the venue’s full history, including this edition. That flatters the model slightly and equally at every venue. How the model works.

The venue

This event was played at Firestone CC (South) in Akron, Ohio, USA. The venue page carries its scorecard, hosting history and every other tour event played there.

Common questions

Who won the World Golf Championships-Bridgestone Invitational in 2013-2014?

Rory McIlroy won the 2013-2014 World Golf Championships-Bridgestone Invitational at Firestone CC (South), finishing 15 under par.

Where was the 2013-2014 World Golf Championships-Bridgestone Invitational played?

The 2013-2014 World Golf Championships-Bridgestone Invitational was played at Firestone CC (South), starting 31 July 2014.

What was the winning score at the 2013-2014 World Golf Championships-Bridgestone Invitational?

The winning score was 15 under par (265 strokes), posted by Rory McIlroy.

How many players were in the World Golf Championships-Bridgestone Invitational field?

75 players started the 2013-2014 World Golf Championships-Bridgestone Invitational. Every one of them appears on the leaderboard below.

Where these numbers come from

Finishes, round scores and to-par figures are the PGA Tour's own published final leaderboard for this event. Nothing is estimated or interpolated — where the tour published no value, this page shows a gap rather than a guess. Full sourcing notes are on the methodology page, and every stat name is defined in the glossary.