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World Golf Championships-Bridgestone Invitational Golf Odds And Predictions

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WGC-Bridgestone Invitational Background

This is the last year of the World Golf Championships-Bridgestone Invitational in Akron, Ohio, as it is being replaced by another WGC event next season in Memphis. Only the best of the best qualify for these big-money WGC events (seven players are making their WGC debuts this week) and there’s no cut – there is an opposite-field tournament on the PGA Tour as well this week, the Barracuda Championship in Reno, Nevada.

Firestone County Club’s South Course is a par 70 measuring 7,400 yards. It has hosted since the debut of this event in 1999, although the 2002 edition was played in Washington state because Firestone hosted that year’s Senior PGA Championship. The Bridgestone Senior Players tournament is moving to Firestone in 2019. The course record at Firestone is a 61 by a few guys, last by defending champion Hideki Matsuyama in the final round last year. The tournament scoring record is 21-under 259 by Tiger Woods in 2000.

WGC-Bridgestone Invitational Player Odds

World No. 1 Dustin Johnson won the Canadian Open on Sunday – we recommended betting on a Top-10 finish for him – and looks for his fifth career WGC title. He won here in 2016 at 6-under 274 by a shot over Scott Piercy but has no other Top 10s this decade in Akron. DJ is the +700 Sports Interaction favourite.

Rory McIlroy is +1100 with Justin Rose at +1400. McIlroy won here in 2014 and has finished outside the Top 10 of this event only once this decade. He was one of the runners-up at the British Open two weeks ago. Rose has three Top 5s at Firestone in his past five visits but is yet to win. He was also a runner-up in the Open Championship.

Could we see history this week? No player has won at the same course nine times in his PGA Tour career. Tiger has won at Firestone, Torrey Pines (San Diego area) and at Bay Hill (Orlando) eight times; Sam Snead won eight times in Greensboro. Tiger just snuck into the world’s Top 50 with his tie for sixth at the British Open to qualify for this event. He hasn’t played any WGC tournament since here in 2014. Tiger’s last win at Firestone was in 2013. Woods is +1400 at Sports Interaction.

No Canadian player has won the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational. Adam Hadwin is +17500 this week. He missed the cut in the Canadian Open and debuted in this tournament last year with a tie for fifth at 7 under. He shot rounds of 68-69-67-69. Mackenzie Hughes also played last year and was T66 at 9 over; he didn’t qualify this time. He and a few other Canadians are playing in the Barracuda Championship.

WGC-Bridgestone Invitational Betting Predictions

It’s just too rare to win back-to-back weeks on the PGA Tour so we can’t recommend Johnson, although we’ll take him for another Top 10. Ditto McIlroy and Rose but not Woods or a struggling Hadwin. The winner is Rickie Fowler (+2000), who has been Top 10 at Firestone each of the past four years but yet to win.