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The tournament changed sponsorship in 2006 , with Bridgestone taking over from NEC as title sponsor. As a part of the five-year sponsorship agreement, the event will continue to be held at its traditional site of the Firestone Country Club in Akron, Ohio . THE WGC-NEC/BRIDGESTONE INVITATIONAL The current event has a field of about seventy-five players, which is roughly half that for a standard professional golf event. Basically, invitations are issued to the top few dozen golfers in the world. The specific eligibility criteria are as follows.
All of the events up to 2005 were held in the United States , all of them except the 2002 edition at Firestone Country Club. The most frequently shown finish in the event's history was in 2000, when the final round was delayed and Tiger Woods capped a sizeably-margined win by birdying the final hole in near-total darkness; as his arms rose in victory, he was immediately illuminated by dozens of camera flashes from the gallery and press around the green. THE WORLD SERIES OF GOLF Up until 1998, there was a tournament called the World Series of Golf, which was also played at Firestone Country Club for many years, and sponsored by NEC. It was founded as a four man invitational event in 1962, but later became a PGA Tour event, and eventually one of the leading events on the Tour. For many years a victory in the World Series of Golf gave a golfer a 10-year exemption on the Tour, which was the same as was granted for a victory in a Major Championship at that time, and twice as long as is given even for winning a major now. The field consisted of the winners of all the high status men's professional golf tournaments around the world in the previous twelve months. This was quite different from the criteria for the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational listed above, but produced much the same sort of global field. WGC-BRIDGESTONE INVITATIONAL WINNERS
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