SportsPulse: USA TODAY Sports’ Steve DiMeglio was on hand to witness a vintage performance from Tiger Woods at the Open Championship. Even though he didn’t win, is it safe to say Tiger is back?
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Tiger Woods is back at Firestone, and you can almost see the reflections of dollar signs in his eyes.
With a T6 finish at the British Open at Carnoustie that put him inside the top 50 in the world golf rankings, Woods qualified for the 2018 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational that tees off Thursday in Akron, Ohio.
Woods will go after his ninth WGC-Bridgestone championship of his career — titles that have been lucrative, to say the least. According to the European Tour, Woods has accrued $10,805,625 in total earnings in the WGC-Bridgestone. That means each finish was worth a whopping $831,202, each round $207,800, each hole $11,544 and each shot $3,046.
That’s you-have-to-see-it-to-believe-it money.
Woods has appeared in 14 WGC-Bridgestone Invitationals, only missing two events between 1999 and 2014.
His last PGA Tour victory came at the 2013 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational, a year before Woods pulled out of the same event during the final round. A ninth win would give him the most victories at the same venue in PGA Tour history.
The WGC-Bridgestone, which will move to Memphis next year, concludes this season’s World Golf Championships.
Woods tees off Thursday at 10:20 a.m. ET alongside Jason Day on the back nine.
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