Francesco Molinari, Tiger Woods, Dustin Johnson, Rory McIlroy, Jordan Spieth: the cream of world golf gathers this week in Ohio for the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational, competition reserved for the best 50 players in the World Ranking. At stake are 10 million dollars, a first coin of 1,7 million and 550 points for Fedex, as a fiery season finale approaches with great strides, with the last major of the year, the Pga Championship, in calendar next week and two of the four Playoffs to follow in the last two weeks of August.
A marathon in which Molinari is a candidate to play a leading role after the victory in the Open Championship (third annual appointment of the grande siam) and the leap to sixth place in the world rankings.
It is a career record for Molinari, who has undoubtedly changed pace with the arrival of Phil Kanyon as coach for the game on the greens. At this point, the Turinese can aspire to any goal, including world leadership. However, Dustin Johnson does not seem ready to give up his scepter, given that he scored in Canada last week. The confrontation between these two great champions today will be live, since they start together from the tee of hole one, at 14,10 pm American time, 20,10 pm in Italy.
He feels ready for a win too Tiger Woods who, after 5 years of fasting, try to win this race for the ninth time. His last success was at Bridgestone in 2013, before being sucked into the tunnel of back surgery and long convalescences. Tiger has climbed back in recent months and from the abyss of the 1200th place in the world he has returned to zone 50, thanks to the good performance in the Open Championship, where he finished sixth.
Defends the title the Japanese Hideki Matsuyama, which is not in the form conditions in last year. Together with Molinari, Justin Rose, Justin Thomas and Brooks Koepka are in the first band of title candidates, who follow him in the ranking. I am one step behind, because they are a bit discontinuous, the other five among the top ten, namely Jon Rahm, Rory McIlroy, Jordan Spieth, Rickie Fowler and Jason Day.
