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World Golf Championships-Bridgestone Invitational

2016-06-30 · Firestone CC (South)

Winner
Dustin Johnson
Winning score
-6
Field
61
Field strength
+0.638 SG

The 2015-2016 World Golf Championships-Bridgestone Invitational was played at Firestone CC (South), starting 30 June 2016. Dustin Johnson won at 6 under par (274), 1 stroke ahead of Scott Piercy. The winning card was 69, 73, 66 and 66, and the win paid $1,620,000. Scott Piercy finished second. 61 players started the event. The field averaged +0.638 strokes gained per round against the tour baseline, with strokes-gained data covering 80% 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 61. 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 57 players actually finished. It was not published in advance, so this measures the model, not a call we made.

Cgrade
Rank correlation
+0.267
Top-20 hit rate
40%
Top-10 avg model rank
17.8

Grade is this event’s percentile (44th) 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
Jordan Spieth1st3rd
Jason Day2nd3rd
Justin Rose3rd46th
Bubba Watson4th14th
Hideki Matsuyama5th42nd
Matt Kuchar6th3rd
Jim Furyk7th42nd
Rickie Fowler8th10th
Paul Casey9th16th
Dustin Johnson10th1st

Where it was most wrong

Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.

PlayerModelFinish
Justin Rose3rd46th(+43)
Patrick Reed12th52nd(+40)
Russell Knox15th54th(+39)
Hideki Matsuyama5th42nd(+37)
Jason Dufner14th51st(+37)
Scott Piercy39th2nd(37)
Jim Furyk7th42nd(+35)
Danny Lee21st56th(+35)
George Coetzee55th21st(34)
Brian Stuard49th16th(33)

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 2015-2016?

Dustin Johnson won the 2015-2016 World Golf Championships-Bridgestone Invitational at Firestone CC (South), finishing 6 under par.

Where was the 2015-2016 World Golf Championships-Bridgestone Invitational played?

The 2015-2016 World Golf Championships-Bridgestone Invitational was played at Firestone CC (South), starting 30 June 2016.

What was the winning score at the 2015-2016 World Golf Championships-Bridgestone Invitational?

The winning score was 6 under par (274 strokes), posted by Dustin Johnson.

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

61 players started the 2015-2016 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.