Welcome to our 2011 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational World Federation of Golf Tours golf tournament page - formerly known as the NEC Invitational).  

The 2011 Bridgestone Invitational is being played this week and is the third World Federation of Golf Tours (WGC) event of the 2011 Season. Tiger Woods had won this one five out of the first six times he'd played it exclusively at Firestone County Club. 

Woods won it again in 2009 a record 6th triumph there. Tiger is making only his second attempt to play since reinjuring his knee at the 2011 Masters in April - the last time being only 9 holes played at the Players Championship in May with a withdrawal due to that reinjury.

 This week he'll be trying to get in some tournament play and get ready for next week's PGA Championship in Atlanta. Tiger has now completely revamped his old camp - first with the departure of swing coach Hank Haney, the divorce from his wife Elin, and now with the firing of long time tour caddy Steve Williams.

Though the Williams firing came as a surprise to most and supposedly Steve himself changing caddies is a commonplace thing in professional golf especially when a player is not getting results.  Steve's comments about 'wasting the last two years' of his life by hanging in there for Tiger are rather laughable however.

As a caddy for the past 12 years for at least a decade of those years Williams earned what we speculate to be nearly a million a year - and folks that annual dollar amount - earned by a caddie mind you - is more than what 2/3rds of today's professional golfers earn per season on the PGA Tour!  (My guess is Williams is eating his words crying in his beer etc.)

Don't get me wrong however.  Steve's a damn good caddy.  Let's see if he can get Adam Scott his first major championship and then maybe he can start talking tough again.

Once Tiger is back and healthy again it's my speculation that he'll pull a veteran caddy from ranks of either the PGA or European golf tours.  Tiger has a friend and business partner on the bag this week.

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16th hole Firestone C.C. South Course

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