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Woods win No. 8 at Firestone
Tiger Woods closed out what had become a foregone conclusion following his second-round 61, as he cruised to a seven-shot victory for his eighth career World Golf Championship-Bridgestone Invitational and 79th career PGA Tour title on Sunday. Three more victories ties Woods with Sam Snead for the Tour’s career wins mark at 82.
Woods paired safe approach shots with a conservative putting stroke to card 16 pars, a birdie and a three-putt bogey in his final-round 70, en route to an 18th career WGC title. Geoff Ogilvy has the next highest WGC wins total, with three.
“Today I was just conservative,” Woods said. “I figured the highest score I could shoot was going to be 70 today … I just felt that this was a perfect day to protect.”
Defending champion Keegan Bradley put together a 3-under par final round to claim a share of second place along with Henrik Stenson, who played in Sunday’s final group with Woods. Stenson matched Woods with a final round score of 70.
Click here to see photos of Tiger’s golf clubs.
Jason Dufner finished the week with a 1-over 71, while Miguel Angel Jimenez and Zach Johnson posted rounds of 69 and 67, respectively, to match Dufner for the week at 6-under in a tie for fourth.
The win is Woods’ fifth of 2013, locking up his 10th season with five or more Tour victories, the most ever. Snead posted eight such seasons.
Woods now owns eight victories in both the Arnold Palmer Invitational and the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational, which is tops in history for a single event along with Sam Snead’s eight wins at the Greater Greensboro Open.
All facets of Woods’ game shined at one point or another during the week, leading to his 12th victory at a Tour event by seven or more shots. He led the field in birdies for the tournament (19), ranked second in greens in regulation (73.2 percent), fifth in putting average (1.67) and 11th in driving accuracy (63.6 percent).
Much of the focus — and understandably so — lies on Woods’ week and what lies ahead at next week’s PGA Championship, where Woods will look to put an end to his majorless streak and collect his 15th career major championship.
The WGC win is Woods’ 20th in his final start before a major, and is his fourth victory the week immediately before a major. In 2002, Woods won the Buick Open, then earned a runner-up finish at the PGA Championship. In 2007, he followed the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational up with a PGA Championship, while 2009’s WGC-Bridgestone Invitational win came before another runner-up finish in the PGA Championship.
While some critics may not term Tiger as being “back” until he wins another major, five wins this season, a healthy lead in the Official World Golf Rankings and the No. 1 position in FedEx Cup points are all pretty telling signs of where Woods’ game is.
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Tour Photo Galleries
Photos from the 2024 Texas Children’s Houston Open
GolfWRX is on site in the Lone Star State this week for the Texas Children’s Houston Open.
General galleries from the putting green and range, WITBs — including Thorbjorn Olesen and Zac Blair — and several pull-out albums await.
As always, we’ll continue to update as more photos flow in. Check out links to all our photos from Houston below.
General Albums
- 2024 Texas Children’s Houston Open – Monday #1
- 2024 Texas Children’s Houston Open – Monday #2
- 2024 Texas Children’s Houston Open – Tuesday #1
- 2024 Texas Children’s Houston Open – Tuesday #2
- 2024 Texas Children’s Houston Open – Tuesday #3
WITB Albums
- Thorbjorn Olesen – WITB – 2024 Texas Children’s Houston Open
- Ben Silverman – WITB – 2024 Texas Children’s Houston Open
- Jesse Droemer – SoTX PGA Section POY – WITB – 2024 Texas Children’s Houston Open
- David Lipsky – WITB – 2024 Texas Children’s Houston Open
- Martin Trainer – WITB – 2024 Texas Children’s Houston Open
- Zac Blair – WITB – 2024 Texas Children’s Houston Open
- Jacob Bridgeman – WITB – 2024 Texas Children’s Houston Open
- Trace Crowe – WITB – 2024 Texas Children’s Houston Open
- Daniel Berger – WITB(very mini) – 2024 Texas Children’s Houston Open
- Chesson Hadley – WITB – 2024 Texas Children’s Houston Open
- Callum McNeill – WITB – 2024 Texas Children’s Houston Open
- Rhein Gibson – WITB – 2024 Texas Children’s Houston Open
- Patrick Fishburn – WITB – 2024 Texas Children’s Houston Open
- Peter Malnati – WITB – 2024 Texas Children’s Houston Open
- Raul Pereda – WITB – 2024 Texas Children’s Houston Open
- Gary Woodland WITB (New driver, iron shafts) – 2024 Texas Children’s Houston Open
- Padraig Harrington WITB – 2024 Texas Children’s Houston Open
Pullout Albums
- Tom Hoge’s custom Cameron – 2024 Texas Children’s Houston Open
- Cameron putter – 2024 Texas Children’s Houston Open
- Piretti putters – 2024 Texas Children’s Houston Open
- Ping putter – 2024 Texas Children’s Houston Open
- Kevin Dougherty’s custom Cameron putter – 2024 Texas Children’s Houston Open
- Bettinardi putter – 2024 Texas Children’s Houston Open
- Cameron putter – 2024 Texas Children’s Houston Open
- Erik Barnes testing an all-black Axis1 putter – 2024 Texas Children’s Houston Open
- Tony Finau’s new driver shaft – 2024 Texas Children’s Houston Open
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Photos from the 2024 Players Championship
On the heels of Scottie Scheffler’s dominant victory at Bay Hill, the PGA Tour heads a little farther north in Florida to TPC Sawgrass this week for The Players Championship. And of course, GolfWRX is on site to get a look at what the players are playing.
We’ve already spotted a new Titleist mini driver this week, and there’s plenty more.
Check out our photos below!
Pullout Albums
- New Titleist 2 wood – 2024 The Players Championship
- Cam Young testing Titleist’s new 2-wood – 2024 THE PLAYERS Championship
- Hole Nos. 17 and 18 – 2024 THE PLAYERS Championship
- Toulon Small Batch Texas putter – 2024 The Players Championship
- Swag Golf custom headcovers – 2024 The Players Championship
- New Ping PLD staff bags – 2024 The Players Championship
- SuperStroke St. Patrick’s Day putter grip – 2024 The Players Championship
- Taylor Montgomery using PuttView X training goggles – 2024 The Players Championship
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Photos from the 2024 Arnold Palmer Invitational
GolfWRX is on the ground in Orlando ahead of the 2024 Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill Club & Lodge.
We’re assembling our usual collection of WITB photos, general galleries, and of course, gear inspired by the King himself.
We’ll continue to add to the photos below as more flow in from Florida.
General Albums
- 2024 Arnold Palmer Invitational – Monday #1
- 2024 Arnold Palmer Invitational – Monday #2
- 2024 Arnold Palmer Invitational – Monday #3
- 2024 Arnold Palmer Invitational – Tuesday #1
- 2024 Arnold Palmer Invitational – Tuesday #2
- 2024 Arnold Palmer Invitational – Tuesday #1 (thanks, bvmagic!)
- 2024 Arnold Palmer Invitational – Tuesday #3 (bvmagic)
- 2024 Arnold Palmer Invitational – Tuesday #2 (bvmagic)
WITB Albums
- Matt (LFG) Every – WITB – 2024 Arnold Palmer Invitational
- Sahith Theegala – WITB – 2024 Arnold Palmer Invitational
- Scottie Scheffler – WITB – 2024 Arnold Palmer Invitational
- Luke List – WITB – 2024 Arnold Palmer Invitational
- Adam Schenk – WITB – 2024 Arnold Palmer Invitational
- Taylor Moore – WITB – 2024 Arnold Palmer Invitational
- David Ford – WITB – 2024 Arnold Palmer Invitational
- Patrick Cantlay – WITB – 2024 Arnold Palmer Invitational
Pullout Albums
- New Cameron putters (and new “LD” grip) – 2024 Arnold Palmer Invitational
- New Bettinardi MB & CB irons – 2024 Arnold Palmer Invitational
- Custom Bettinardi API putter cover – 2024 Arnold Palmer Invitational
- Custom Swag API covers – 2024 Arnold Palmer Invitational
- New Golf Pride Reverse Taper grips – 2024 Arnold Palmer Invitational
- New PXG putters – 2024 Arnold Palmer Invitational
- Scottie Scheffler putter change – 2024 Arnold Palmer Invitational
- Sepp Straka – shaft change to new Ventus blue – 2024 Arnold Palmer Invitational
- Rickie Fowler’s new Cobra Darkspeed X driver and Denali shaft (and Radspeed 3-wood) – 2024 Arnold Palmer Invitational
- Justin Rose testing Srixon Z Forged II irons – 2024 Arnold Palmer Invitational
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Paul
Aug 5, 2013 at 2:57 pm
I’m a Tiger fan as much as anyone else… Yet the driver is still a bit of a chink in his golf club artillery. Many of us here have revisited the steel shaft cut to a shorter length then today’s more common length of 45 1/2 or so inches. My own experiment lead me to dump the graphite shafted driver and return to a drive with a steel shaft. My results have produced so much more consistency. I sense that for no other reason, it would be something that would create an great deal of discussion in the golf world. So Tiger himself needs to revisit a steel shafted driver or try a heavier graphite shaft in is driver. Just a thought…!
spencer
Aug 5, 2013 at 1:24 am
I’m pulling for Tiger next weekend but I do hope it’s more interesting than what we saw this weekend.
Ryan
Aug 4, 2013 at 9:30 pm
Ditto on Keith’s comment
keith
Aug 4, 2013 at 9:05 pm
Let’s go Tiger, he was dominating this weeks field. I hope he gets his first major in sometime next weekend.