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Tiger Week: Tournaments That Tiger Woods Has Dominated

By Tim Letcher

AUGUSTA, : Tiger Woods of the US gives a thumbs up to the crowd after getting his third green jacket 14 April 2002, after winning the 2002 Masters golf tournament at the Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, GA. Woods finished the round one under par for a four day total of 12 under par. AFP PHOTO/Timathoy A. CLARY (Photo credit should read TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty Images)
AUGUSTA, : Tiger Woods of the US gives a thumbs up to the crowd after getting his third green jacket 14 April 2002, after winning the 2002 Masters golf tournament at the Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, GA. Woods finished the round one under par for a four day total of 12 under par. AFP PHOTO/Timathoy A. CLARY (Photo credit should read TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty Images) /
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AKRON, OH – AUGUST 04: Ryder Cup Director Richard Hills (L) poses with Tiger Woods after the Final Round of the World Golf Championships-Bridgestone Invitational at Firestone Country Club South Course on August 4, 2013 in Akron, Ohio. Woods won the tournament with a score of -15. (Photo by Sam Greenwood/Getty Images)
AKRON, OH – AUGUST 04: Ryder Cup Director Richard Hills (L) poses with Tiger Woods after the Final Round of the World Golf Championships-Bridgestone Invitational at Firestone Country Club South Course on August 4, 2013 in Akron, Ohio. Woods won the tournament with a score of -15. (Photo by Sam Greenwood/Getty Images) /

WGC-NEC/Bridgestone Invitational

Woods has dominated the course at Firestone Country Club like no other course he has played. Tiger has won there eight times overall.

His first win in Akron, Ohio, came in 1999. He shot 10-under par that year, when he topped Phil Mickelson by one shot.

Woods would repeat the following year when he shot an incredible 21-under par. That allowed him to beat Justin Leonard and Phillip Price by 11 shots.

Tiger made it three in a row the following year, although it was in much closer fashion. Woods topped Jim Furyk in a playoff to win the 2001 WGC-NEC Invitational.

After not winning for three seasons in a row, Woods returned to the winner’s circle in Akron in 2005. His 6-under par total was enough to beat Chris DiMarco by a single shot.

Woods won at Firestone again in 2006, the first year that the event was called the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational. It took a playoff for Woods to dispatch of Stewart Cink.

In 2007, Tiger made it three in a row, and six overall, at Firestone. He was the only player under par that week, shooting 8-under and beating Justin Rose and Rory Sabbatini by eight shots.

Woods didn’t win in Akron in 2008 but did in 2009. He shot 12-under par that week to win by four shots over Robert Allenby and Padraig Harrington.

Tiger’s last win at the Bridgestone came in 2013, when he was 15-under par to crush the field, including runners-up Keegan Bradley and Henrik Stenson, by seven shots.

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