Tournaments / 2016-2017
World Golf Championships-Bridgestone Invitational
2017-08-03 · Firestone CC (South)
- Winner
- Hideki Matsuyama
- Winning score
- -16
- Field
- 77
- Field strength
- +0.773 SG
The 2016-2017 World Golf Championships-Bridgestone Invitational was played at Firestone CC (South), starting 3 August 2017. Hideki Matsuyama won at 16 under par (264), 5 strokes ahead of Zach Johnson. The winning card was 69, 67, 67 and 61, and the win paid $1,660,000. Zach Johnson finished second, and Charley Hoffman was third. 77 players started the event. The field averaged +0.773 strokes gained per round against the tour baseline, with strokes-gained data covering 69% 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 77. Search finds any player in the field, including those who missed the cut.
- Hideki Matsuyama
- Pos
- 1
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 61
- Total
- 264
- Zach Johnson
- Pos
- 2
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 269
- Charley Hoffman
- Pos
- 3
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 270
- Thomas Pieters
- Pos
- 4
- R1
- 65
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 272
- Adam Hadwin
- Pos
- T5
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 273
- Paul Casey
- Pos
- T5
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 273
- Rory McIlroy
- Pos
- T5
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 273
- Russell Knox
- Pos
- T5
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 273
- Rickie Fowler
- Pos
- 9
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 274
- Hudson Swafford
- Pos
- T10
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 275
- Scott Hend
- Pos
- T10
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 63
- R4
- 73
- Total
- 275
- Thorbjørn Olesen
- Pos
- T10
- R1
- 73
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 65
- Total
- 275
- Adam Scott
- Pos
- T13
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 276
- Jordan Spieth
- Pos
- T13
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 71
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 276
- Kevin Chappell
- Pos
- T13
- R1
- 72
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 276
- Xander Schauffele
- Pos
- T13
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 276
- Brooks Koepka
- Pos
- T17
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 277
- Bubba Watson
- Pos
- T17
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 74
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 277
- Daniel Berger
- Pos
- T17
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 70
- Total
- 277
- Dustin Johnson
- Pos
- T17
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 75
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 277
Model score
Backtest · reconstructedOur 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 75 players actually finished. It was not published in advance, so this measures the model, not a call we made.
- Rank correlation
- +0.489
- Top-20 hit rate
- 55%
- Top-10 avg model rank
- 25.2
Grade is this event’s percentile (96th) 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.
| Player | Model | Finish |
|---|---|---|
| Rory McIlroy | 1st | 5th |
| Henrik Stenson | 2nd | 17th |
| Hideki Matsuyama | 3rd | 1st |
| Jordan Spieth | 4th | 13th |
| Paul Casey | 5th | 5th |
| Rickie Fowler | 6th | 9th |
| Jason Day | 7th | 24th |
| Justin Rose | 8th | 63rd |
| Dustin Johnson | 9th | 17th |
| Adam Scott | 10th | 13th |
Where it was most wrong
Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.
| Player | Model | Finish |
|---|---|---|
| Thorbjørn Olesen | 74th | 10th(−64) |
| Scott Hend | 68th | 10th(−58) |
| Justin Rose | 8th | 63rd(+55) |
| Thomas Pieters | 48th | 4th(−44) |
| Adam Hadwin | 47th | 5th(−42) |
| Russell Henley | 28th | 66th(+38) |
| Xander Schauffele | 51st | 13th(−38) |
| Louis Oosthuizen | 17th | 50th(+33) |
| J.B. Holmes | 27th | 60th(+33) |
| Gary Woodland | 30th | 63rd(+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 2016-2017?
- Hideki Matsuyama won the 2016-2017 World Golf Championships-Bridgestone Invitational at Firestone CC (South), finishing 16 under par.
Where was the 2016-2017 World Golf Championships-Bridgestone Invitational played?
- The 2016-2017 World Golf Championships-Bridgestone Invitational was played at Firestone CC (South), starting 3 August 2017.
What was the winning score at the 2016-2017 World Golf Championships-Bridgestone Invitational?
- The winning score was 16 under par (264 strokes), posted by Hideki Matsuyama.
How many players were in the World Golf Championships-Bridgestone Invitational field?
- 77 players started the 2016-2017 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.