Firestone Country Club
Clubhouse in 2006
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| Club information | |
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| Location | Akron, Ohio |
| Established | 1929, 88 years ago |
| Type | Private |
| Owned by | ClubCorp |
| Total holes | 54 |
| Tournaments hosted |
WGC-Bridgestone Invitational (1962–present) PGA Championship (1960, 1966, 1975) American Golf Classic (1961–1976) Rubber City Open Invitational (1954–1959) |
| Website | firestonecountryclub.com |
| South | |
| Designed by | Bert Way (1929) redesigned in 1960 by Robert Trent Jones |
| Par | 70 |
| Length | 7,400 yards (6,800 m) |
| Course rating | 76.1 |
| Slope rating | 132 |
| North | |
| Designed by | Robert Trent Jones (1969) |
| Par | 72 |
| Length | 7,125 yards (6,515 m) |
| Course rating | 74.8 |
| Slope rating | 134 |
| West | |
| Designed by | Tom Fazio (1989) |
| Par | 70 |
| Length | 6,904 yards (6,313 m) |
| Course rating | 73.5 |
| Slope rating | 128 |
The 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.
The club comprises three courses—those of the North, South, and West. In 1974 the club hosted three televised golf events: the American Golf Classic, the CBS Golf Classic and the World Series of Golf. No other club has hosted three televised golf events in the same calendar year.
One of four World Golf Championships constituent events, the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational, directed by the International Federation of PGA Tours and sanctioned on the PGA and European Tours, is contested at the club. The North and West courses also serve as the home course for the University of Akron Zips golf team.
Harvey Firestone commissioned the club 88 years ago in 1929 as a park for employees of the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company. Its first course, the South, was designed by Bert Way and opened on August 10, 1929, with Firestone driving the first ball. For the sixth and final Rubber City Open Invitational in 1959, the course was 6,620 yards (6,053 m) at par 71. A major redesign by Robert Trent Jones in 1960 for the PGA Championship added over fifty bunkers and two ponds, and extended the course to 7,165 yards (6,552 m) at par 70. The course was renovated by Golforce in 2007 and played at 7,400 yards (6,767 m) for the WGC event in 2015.
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