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 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.


1	Rory McIlroy	69	64	66	66	265	-15
2	Sergio Garcia	68	61	67	71	267	-13
3	Marc Leishman	64	69	68	67	268	-12
T4	Charl Schwartzel	65	69	73	64	271	-9
T4	Justin Rose	65	67	70	69	271	-9
T4	Keegan Bradley	68	67	67	69	271	-9
T4	Patrick Reed	67	68	71	65	271	-9
T8	Adam Scott	69	68	65	71	273	-7
T8	Graeme McDowell	71	70	66	66	273	-7
T8	Rickie Fowler	67	67	72	67	273	-7
T8	Ryan Moore	65	73	68	67	273	-7
T12	Brandt Snedeker	68	68	68	70	274	-6
T12	Hideki Matsuyama	70	71	65	68	274	-6
T12	Matt Kuchar	71	66	72	65	274	-6
T15	Hunter Mahan	71	65	71	68	275	-5
T15	Jim Furyk	69	68	69	69	275	-5
T15	Phil Mickelson	71	73	69	62	275	-5
T15	Thomas Bjørn	69	68	69	69	275	-5
T19	Gary Woodland	70	68	68	70	276	-4
T19	Henrik Stenson	71	66	68	71	276	-4

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: +0.535
Top-20 hit rate: 65%
Top-10 avg model rank: 15.2

Grade is this event’s percentile (97th) 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
Justin Rose	1st	4th
Adam Scott	2nd	8th
Jim Furyk	3rd	15th
Sergio Garcia	4th	2nd
Steve Stricker	5th	63rd
Rory McIlroy	6th	1st
Henrik Stenson	7th	19th
Matt Kuchar	8th	12th
Jordan Spieth	9th	49th
Bubba Watson	10th	37th

Where it was most wrong

Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.

Player	Model	Finish
Steve Stricker	5th	63rd(+58)
Branden Grace	69th	23rd(−46)
Patrick Reed	49th	4th(−45)
Jason Dufner	22nd	66th(+44)
Jordan Spieth	9th	49th(+40)
Thomas Bjørn	55th	15th(−40)
Marc Leishman	34th	3rd(−31)
Luke Donald	21st	50th(+29)
Ian Poulter	24th	52nd(+28)
Louis Oosthuizen	33rd	61st(+28)

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.

This event in the model

OTIS ranks every field on how well each player's game matches the course, then prices their chances. Both are published in full and graded afterwards.

This week's model Probabilities and the track record 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 published final leaderboard for this event. Nothing is estimated or interpolated — where no value was published, 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.