2020 Travelers Championship

[Darth Putter]

The PGA Tour comes to Cromwell, Connecticut this week for a tournament that is on its original date.

 

COURSE: TPC of River Highlands: a par 70 of 6841 yards that was redesigned by Pete Dye 37 years ago and a few more times since.

FED EX CUP: 500 points

PURSE: $7,400,000 with a first place check of $1,332,000

 

FIELD: for the third straight week it is a tournament's best field ever

20 out of the top 25 in the OWGR are here (Scott, Woods, Kuchar, Fleetwood and Matsuyama are missing)

first place projection of 72 points again

 

full field: https://www.pgatour.com/tournaments/travelers-championship/field.html (now with double Koepka after Monday qualifying)

 

tee times: https://www.pgatour.com/tournaments/travelers-championship/tee-times.html

 

FEATURED GROUPS

Bryson DeChambeau/ Rory McIlroy/ Phil Mickelson

Brooks Koepka/ Justin Thomas/ Xander Schauffele

John Rahm/ Webb Simpson/ Chez Reavie (our Defending Champion)

Dustin Johnson/ Collin Morikawa/ Jordan Spieth

 

 

 

[Medson]

All these events are loaded. Good for audience.

[Catty]

I Like the McIIroy group the best. Phil will have to try and go with them, wont be able to help himself. Fore left.

[grm24]

Probably another M/C for Phil in 2020. 5 M/C in 6 events on the PGA Tour in 2020. Since the start of 2019 Phil only has 3 top 10's on the PGA Tour. All in California. 14 M/C since the start of 2019. Phil has played a ton of bad to poor golf since the start of 2019. His end of 2018 wasn't much better. Only 1 top 10 in 2018 after the Masters.

[tiderider]

yeah, sunglasses ain't gonna help him find the fairway ...

 

any reason webb can't win this week, again? ... in roughly a year of golf, he's got 2 wins, 6 other top tens (including 3 2nds & a 3rd), and only 1 mc ...

[MattyO1984]

Looking forward to this one over the weekend. JT seems to be trending in the right direction and BDC is knocking on the door. Seems like there would be a bit more room for both of them off the tee to have this as a good fit for them compared to the last couple of weeks.

[Rangeballz]

I wonder how much longer Phil and JS are going to be in featured groups. Phil I can probably understand, still being a good draw and very popular, but JS??

[snizzle]

I wonder if Scott and Fleetwood are kicking themselves now. They had plenty of time to get over here and do the quarantine stuff to play in these events. Anyway just thinking out loud as I know we can't really discuss these issues on this forum.

[bigred90gt]

The course is only 6800 yards. It wont be able to stand up to the monsters of today. Boring event of drivers and flip wedges. A blight on the game.

 

 

 

And if you cannot read the sarcasm in the above, my apologies. I tried to lay it on pretty thick, but it doesnt come across well over text.

[smashdn]

I like JT.

 

Wonder why TIger has not played yet somewhere?

[flushem]

 

[smashdn]

I see Gary Woodland down there are 50/1.

[howaboutme]

I think the draw here is the story. I know I am interested and really want to see him back to where he was. Because of that, I want to see him featured. I think Phil is similar. It's a good story and we hope good golf comes from it. Even if they don't play well, seeing some of the emotions is part of the entertainment.

[QuigleyDU]

Second player to withdraw this week due to an illness that we are not supposed to talk about. Good news is he feels fine, and will be back in a few weeks.

[bscinstnct]

Cameron Champ tests positive for COVID-19, withdraws from Travelers Championship

[bscinstnct]

 

He playin ; )

Tiger Woods played golf course in St. Simons Island with son Charlie

[QuigleyDU]

 

 

haha. Come on man! Play along.. Hahaha.

[bscinstnct]

 

lol, sorry, sorry.

 

CChamp like,

 

I don’t see how I could have got it. I only was at that pool party for an hour and we were super careful during the chicken fights.

 

[Mr. Grumpy]

Yeah, I like JT here as well. Another great field!

[manku]

I put a couple shekels of Sergio...played well last weekend, was a runner up in Hartford a few years ago...at 55-1...plus he wasn't picked by anyone on the PGATour.com Expert Picks...traditionally a kiss of death.

Like 99% of my golf bets, I expect this to be a wipe out and is really for entertainment purposes only.

But it's a lot of fun when every few years you hit a winner!

[c7015]

not worth getting covid if not a major

[HOF19]

I always give players who reportedly like a course a fair chance at winning......... Seems Bubba enjoys playing this one lets see if he has another happy experience here .

[Darth Putter]

Due to the WDs, the first place points drop to 68. It is still the strongest field ever at Hartford.

[flushem]

UPDATED

 

[Titleist99]

This weeks golf course is 6841 yards. If I recall a bunch of posters claimed that today pros couldn't have a tournament on a course this short and that the classic courses are obsolete. If the ball goes to far what is the PGATOUR doing here? Hopefully we can table that argument going forward.....

[Stanks]

It'll be an interesting course. Can't wait to see the pros play.

[Imp]

I always enjoy watching rounds being played on courses I've also played. Humbled I am. ;)

Bryson just tried going for 2 from the tee. OOps.

--kC

[smashdn]

It is also a par 70 course and isn't terribly hard based upon rating and slope. The par fives are 574 and 523 (on the scorecard), 589 and 523 on the PGA Tour website. 4.400 and 4.436 scoring average on those two holes. Fairly benign despite water all over on the back nine par five.

 

The PGA is there because it is a TPC course and the PGA Tour is in the business of making money.

Why are they not at Yale? It is a similar yardage, par 70, higher slope and better architectural pedigree (CBM course, biarritz anyone?) Fairfield is a Raynor design but is only 6200 yards par 70.

TPC River Highlands is not even in the Golf Digest top ten in state.

[Imp]

As you said, Tour is in the business of making money. That means accessibility for the public to get to the course, room for them to spread out safely and watch, more people more tickets sold, means more money. Courses with smaller public viewing areas/capability hardly make the list. as playable on tour.

That said, remove/halve/quarter ticket sales for the public... and you open up the number of courses that CAN be played as you only need a minimal (mostly volunteer) staff. I'd love to see this myself.

I mean, just compare the clubhouse/parking lot size near the site for all the support vehicles, media tents, etc.... and where would the public be dropped off? You can do that near TPC, Yale? Not so much. There are certain logistical necessities needing to be met to get a tour.

 

[QuigleyDU]

Rory looking pretty good..

 

Hahaha. As I typed that, he snipes one into the bush...