Tournaments / 2017-2018
World Golf Championships-Bridgestone Invitational
2018-08-02 · Firestone CC (South)
- Winner
- Justin Thomas
- Winning score
- -15
- Field
- 73
- Field strength
- +0.761 SG
The 2017-2018 World Golf Championships-Bridgestone Invitational was played at Firestone CC (South), starting 2 August 2018. Justin Thomas won at 15 under par (265), 4 strokes ahead of Kyle Stanley. The winning card was 65, 64, 67 and 69, and the win paid $1,700,000. Kyle Stanley finished second, and Dustin Johnson and Thorbjørn Olesen tied for third. 73 players started the event. The field averaged +0.761 strokes gained per round against the tour baseline, with strokes-gained data covering 82% 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 73. Search finds any player in the field, including those who missed the cut.
- Justin Thomas
- Pos
- 1
- R1
- 65
- R2
- 64
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 265
- Kyle Stanley
- Pos
- 2
- R1
- 63
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 269
- Dustin Johnson
- Pos
- T3
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 64
- Total
- 270
- Thorbjørn Olesen
- Pos
- T3
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 64
- Total
- 270
- Brooks Koepka
- Pos
- 5
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 271
- Aaron Wise
- Pos
- T6
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 272
- Anirban Lahiri
- Pos
- T6
- R1
- 65
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 272
- Patrick Cantlay
- Pos
- T6
- R1
- 64
- R2
- 72
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 272
- Rory McIlroy
- Pos
- T6
- R1
- 65
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 73
- Total
- 272
- Ian Poulter
- Pos
- T10
- R1
- 62
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 70
- R4
- 74
- Total
- 273
- Jason Day
- Pos
- T10
- R1
- 65
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 73
- Total
- 273
- Si Woo Kim
- Pos
- T10
- R1
- 64
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 72
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 273
- Tony Finau
- Pos
- T10
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 71
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 273
- Marc Leishman
- Pos
- T14
- R1
- 65
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 73
- Total
- 274
- Matt Kuchar
- Pos
- T14
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 274
- Tommy Fleetwood
- Pos
- T14
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 63
- R3
- 74
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 274
- Gary Woodland
- Pos
- T17
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 275
- Jon Rahm
- Pos
- T17
- R1
- 64
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 73
- Total
- 275
- Rafa Cabrera Bello
- Pos
- T17
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 275
- Rickie Fowler
- Pos
- T17
- R1
- 63
- R2
- 74
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 73
- Total
- 275
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 71 players actually finished. It was not published in advance, so this measures the model, not a call we made.
- Rank correlation
- +0.320
- Top-20 hit rate
- 50%
- Top-10 avg model rank
- 25.8
Grade is this event’s percentile (61st) 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Rickie Fowler | 1st | 17th |
| Jordan Spieth | 2nd | 60th |
| Henrik Stenson | 3rd | 39th |
| Dustin Johnson | 4th | 3rd |
| Tiger Woods | 5th | 31st |
| Paul Casey | 6th | 31st |
| Jon Rahm | 7th | 17th |
| Justin Thomas | 8th | 1st |
| Hideki Matsuyama | 9th | 39th |
| Jason Day | 10th | 10th |
Where it was most wrong
Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.
| Player | Model | Finish |
|---|---|---|
| Si Woo Kim | 71st | 10th(−61) |
| Jordan Spieth | 2nd | 60th(+58) |
| Anirban Lahiri | 61st | 6th(−55) |
| Ross Fisher | 66th | 17th(−49) |
| Thorbjørn Olesen | 51st | 3rd(−48) |
| Aaron Wise | 54th | 6th(−48) |
| Xander Schauffele | 23rd | 68th(+45) |
| Henrik Stenson | 3rd | 39th(+36) |
| Adam Scott | 22nd | 57th(+35) |
| Emiliano Grillo | 33rd | 66th(+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 2017-2018?
- Justin Thomas won the 2017-2018 World Golf Championships-Bridgestone Invitational at Firestone CC (South), finishing 15 under par.
Where was the 2017-2018 World Golf Championships-Bridgestone Invitational played?
- The 2017-2018 World Golf Championships-Bridgestone Invitational was played at Firestone CC (South), starting 2 August 2018.
What was the winning score at the 2017-2018 World Golf Championships-Bridgestone Invitational?
- The winning score was 15 under par (265 strokes), posted by Justin Thomas.
How many players were in the World Golf Championships-Bridgestone Invitational field?
- 73 players started the 2017-2018 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.