Firestone Country Club South Course Profile

By Dave Shedloski
Perhaps no golf facility in the world has been more utilitarian to the professional ranks than Firestone Country Club in Akron, Ohio. Site of this week’s World Golf Championships-Bridgestone Invitational, Firestone, which has 54 holes of championship-caliber golf, has hosted a tournament annually since 1954, when the Rubber City Open first was contested on the famed — but not yet fearsome — South Course.
The list of events held at Firestone is impressive, star