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Fantasy Golf Sleeper Report – 2015 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational

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The Sleeper Report: Fantasy Golf Sleepers, Long Shots, and Undervalued Picks for the 2015 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational from Firestone CC

The 2015 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational Preview

The third leg of the WGC series will commence in Akron this week as the top players from around the world compete in the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational.  The event first began back in 1999—along with the other two WGC tourneys that have already taken place this year—and has been played at this par-70, 7,400-yard course in all but one installment.

The field will consist of golfers from the most recent President’s Cup and Ryder Cup teams, players ranked in the top-50 of the Official World Golf Rankings (both a week and two weeks ahead of the event) and selected winners from tours the PGA TOUR of Australasia, Sunshine Tour, Asian Tour and Japan Golf Tour.

Plenty of late additions were made to the group and are highlighted by Troy Merritt who jumped from 180th in the OWGR to 99th with his victory in the Quicken Loans National after a Saturday round of 61 which vaulted him to his first PGA TOUR win and a first visit to a WGC event.  The only two players from the top-50 that will not be making the trip this week are No. 1 Rory McIlroy, who is dealing with his ankle injury, and No. 22 Chris Kirk, who is out with an injured hand.

Speaking of McIlroy, he was the winner here last year with a score of 15-under-par, shooting eight-under over the weekend as he was joined by just Sergio Garcia (-13) and Marc Leishman (-12) in double-digit numbers under par.  It was Garcia who had a three-shot lead late on Sunday in the event, but the Spaniard carded a 71 on the final day and allowed McIlroy to win his second consecutive WGC event.

Since the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational’s inception in 1999, Tiger Woods has won the event an amazing eight times (most recently in 2013), but will not earn a chance this season as he did not qualify.

There will be plenty of opportunities to score on this course as evidenced by the winners here going 10-under-par or better in every year but 2005 and 2007, while Tigers Woods, to nobody’s surprise, holds the tournament record with a score of 21-under back in 2000 when he defeated the runners-up, Justin Leonard and Phillip Price, by an astounding 11 strokes.

Let’s now go through the players and find some sleepers that could stand out among this strong field when the dust settles at Firestone.

The 2015 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational Fantasy Sleeper Report

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