2001 WGC-NEC Invitational

2001 WGC-NEC Invitational
Tournament information
Dates	August 23–26, 2001
Location	Akron, Ohio, U.S.
Course(s)	Firestone Country Club
Tour(s)	PGA Tour ; European Tour
Statistics
Par	70
Length	7,139
Field	39 players
Cut	None
Prize fund	$5,000,000
Winner's share	$1,000,000
Champion
	Tiger Woods
	268 (−12), playoff
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Last updated March 03, 2019

The 2001 WGC-NEC Invitational was a golf tournament that was contested from August 23–26, 2001 over the South Course at Firestone Country Club in Akron, Ohio. It was the third WGC-NEC Invitational tournament, and the second of three World Golf Championships events held in 2001.

Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible.

Firestone Country Club is a private golf club in the United States, located in Akron, Ohio. It is a regular stop on the PGA Tour and has hosted the PGA Championship three times. It is the current home of the Bridgestone Senior Players Championship through 2022.

Akron is the fifth-largest city in the U.S. state of Ohio and is the county seat of Summit County. It is located on the western edge of the Glaciated Allegheny Plateau, about 30 miles (48 km) south of Cleveland. As of the 2017 Census estimate, the city proper had a total population of 197,846, making it the 119th-largest city in the United States. The Greater Akron area, covering Summit and Portage counties, had an estimated population of 703,505.

World number 1 Tiger Woods won the tournament to complete a hat-trick of victories at the WGC-NEC Invitational and claim his fourth World Golf Championships title. Woods defeated Jim Furyk on the 7th hole of a sudden-death playoff after both men had tied at 268 (12 under par) at the end of regulation play.

The Official World Golf Ranking is a system for rating the performance level of male professional golfers. It was started in 1986.

Eldrick Tont "Tiger" Woods is an American professional golfer who is one of the most popular athletes of the 21st century. He has been one of the highest-paid athletes in the world for several years. Woods is generally considered to be one of the greatest golfers of all time.

A hat-trick or hat trick is the achievement of a positive feat three times in a game, or another achievement based on the number three.

Field

1. 2001 United States Ryder Cup team*

Paul Azinger (3), Mark Calcavecchia, Stewart Cink (3), David Duval (3), Jim Furyk (3), Scott Hoch, Davis Love III (3), Phil Mickelson (3), Hal Sutton (3), David Toms, Scott Verplank, Tiger Woods (3)

Paul William Azinger is an American professional golfer and TV golf analyst. He won twelve times on the PGA Tour, including one major championship, the 1993 PGA Championship. He spent almost 300 weeks in the top-10 of the Official World Golf Ranking between 1988 and 1994.

Mark John Calcavecchia is an American professional golfer and a former PGA Tour member. During his professional career, he won 13 PGA Tour events, including the 1989 Open Championship. He plays on the Champions Tour as well as a limited PGA Tour schedule that includes The Open Championship.

Stewart Ernest Cink is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour. He won the 2009 Open Championship, famously defeating 59 year-old Tom Watson in a four-hole aggregate playoff. He spent over 40 weeks in the top 10 of the Official World Golf Ranking from 2004 to 2009, reaching a career best ranking of 5th in 2008.

2. The leading 12 players from the European Ryder Cup points list after the PGA Championship and North West of Ireland Open

Thomas Bjørn, Darren Clarke, Niclas Fasth, Pierre Fulke, Pádraig Harrington, Miguel Ángel Jiménez, Bernhard Langer, Paul McGinley, Colin Montgomerie, Ian Poulter, Phillip Price, Lee Westwood

Thomas Bjørn is a professional golfer from Denmark who plays on the European Tour. He is the most successful Danish golfer to have played the game having won fifteen tournaments worldwide on the European Tour. In 1997 he also became the first Dane to qualify for a European Ryder Cup team. Bjørn is remembered for his collapse at Royal St. George's during the 2003 Open Championship, when he led by two strokes with three holes to play, but took three attempts to get out of a greenside bunker on the par three 16th, handing the tournament to Ben Curtis. He captained the winning European side at the 2018 Ryder Cup.

Darren Christopher Clarke, is a professional golfer from Northern Ireland who currently plays on the European Tour and has previously played on the PGA Tour. He has won 21 tournaments worldwide on a number of golf's main tours including the European Tour, the PGA Tour, the Sunshine Tour and the Japan Golf Tour. His biggest victory came when he won the 2011 Open Championship at Royal St George's in England, his first major win after more than 20 years and 54 attempts.

Niclas Fasth is a Swedish professional golfer.

3. 2000 United States and International Presidents Cup teams

United States: Notah Begay III, Loren Roberts, Kirk Triplett

Notah Ryan Begay III is an American professional golfer. He is the only full-blood Native American golfer on the PGA Tour. Since 2013, Begay has served as an analyst with the Golf Channel and NBC Sports.

Loren Lloyd Roberts is an American professional golfer, who has played on the PGA Tour and the PGA Tour Champions

Kirk Alan Triplett is an American professional golfer who has played on the PGA Tour, Nationwide Tour, and PGA Tour Champions.

Tom Lehman did not play.

International: Robert Allenby, Stuart Appleby, Michael Campbell, Steve Elkington, Ernie Els, Carlos Franco, Retief Goosen, Shigeki Maruyama, Greg Norman, Nick Price, Vijay Singh, Mike Weir

Robert Allenby is an Australian professional golfer.

Stuart Appleby is an Australian professional golfer.

Michael Shane Campbell, CNZM is a retired New Zealand professional golfer who is best known for having won the 2005 U.S. Open and the richest prize in golf, the £1,000,000 HSBC World Match Play Championship, in the same year. He played on the European Tour and the PGA Tour of Australasia.

*The Ryder Cup scheduled for 2001 would be postponed to 2002 due to the September 11 attacks.

Round summaries

First round

#	Player	Country	Score	To par
T1	Jim Furyk	United States	65	−5
T1	Greg Norman	Australia	65	−5
T3	Thomas Bjørn	Denmark	66	−4
	Darren Clarke	Northern Ireland
	Colin Montgomerie	Scotland
	Tiger Woods	United States
T7	Paul Azinger	United States	67	−3
	Ernie Els	South Africa
	Phil Mickelson	United States
	Ian Poulter	England

Second round

#	Player	Country	Score	To par
1	Jim Furyk	United States	65-66=131	−9
T2	Phil Mickelson	United States	67-66=133	−7
T2	Tiger Woods	United States	66-67=133	−7
T4	Stuart Appleby	Australia	70-64=134	−6
	Darren Clarke	Northern Ireland	66-68=134
	Pádraig Harrington	Ireland	68-66=134
7	Robert Allenby	Australia	68-67=135	−5
T8	Stewart Cink	United States	69-67=136	−4
	Bernhard Langer	Germany	69-67=136
	Davis Love III	United States	68-68=136
	Greg Norman	Australia	65-71=136
	Vijay Singh	Fiji	68-68=136

Third round

#	Player	Country	Score	To par
1	Jim Furyk	United States	65-66-66=197	−13
2	Tiger Woods	United States	66-67-66=199	−11
T3	Paul Azinger	United States	67-70-65=202	−8
T3	Darren Clarke	Northern Ireland	66-68-68=202	−8
T5	Ernie Els	South Africa	67-70-66=203	−7
	Phil Mickelson	United States	67-66-70=203
	Colin Montgomerie	Scotland	66-71-66=203
T8	Stuart Appleby	Australia	70-64-70=204	−6
T8	Bernhard Langer	Germany	69-67-68=204	−6
T10	Retief Goosen	South Africa	72-69-64=205	−5
T10	Vijay Singh	Fiji	68-68-69=205	−5

Final round

#	Player	Country	Score	To par	Winnings ($)
T1	Tiger Woods	United States	66-67-66-69=268	−12	1,000,000
T1	Jim Furyk	United States	65-66-66-71=268	−12	500,000
3	Darren Clarke	Northern Ireland	66-68-68-69=271	−9	375,000
4	Colin Montgomerie	Scotland	66-71-66-70=273	−7	300,000
T5	Stuart Appleby	Australia	70-64-70-70=274	−6	201,667
	Paul Azinger	United States	67-70-65-72=274
	Davis Love III	United States	68-68-70-68=274
T8	Ernie Els	South Africa	67-70-66-72=275	−5	147,500
T8	Phil Mickelson	United States	67-66-70-72=275	−5	147,500
10	Retief Goosen	South Africa	72-69-64-71=276	−4	131,000

Scorecard

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Par	4	5	4	4	3	4	3	4	4	4	4	3	4	4	3	5	4	4
Woods	−11	−12	−13	−13	−13	−12	−12	−12	−12	−12	−12	−12	−13	−13	−12	−13	−13	−12
Furyk	−13	−14	−14	−14	−14	−13	−13	−13	−13	−13	−13	−13	−12	−12	−13	−13	−13	−12
Clarke	−8	−9	−10	−9	−9	−8	−7	−7	−7	−8	−8	−8	−9	−9	−9	−9	−9	−9
Montgomerie	−7	−6	−7	−7	−7	−7	−7	−7	−6	−6	−6	−6	−7	−7	−7	−7	−7	−7
Appleby	−6	−7	−8	−8	−8	−8	−9	−9	−8	−8	−8	−8	−8	−8	−7	−7	−6	−6
Azinger	−9	−10	−10	−10	−10	−9	−8	−7	−7	−7	−7	−7	−6	−6	−6	−6	−6	−6
Love	−5	−6	−6	−6	−6	−5	−5	−5	−5	−5	−5	−4	−4	−5	−6	−6	−6	−6

Cumulative tournament scores, relative to par

	Birdie		Bogey

Source:^[1]

Sudden-death playoff

Player	Score
Player	18	17	18	17	18	17	18	Total
Tiger Woods	4	4	4	4	4	4	3	27
Jim Furyk	4	4	4	4	4	4	5	29

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References

↑ "WGC-NEC Invitational". ESPN. Retrieved October 11, 2018.

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