Travelers Championship 2021

[MattyO1984]

Post major blues might be abound but the Tour carries on and this week heads back to Connecticut for the Travelers Championship. It is a tournament which seems to have gotten stronger over the years, with low scoring usually the order of the day with TPC River Highlands being the course that Furyk shot his famous 58. With five of the top 10 in the OWGR teeing it up there are plenty of big names about to keep everything interesting after an exciting finish to the 3rd major of the year last week.

 

Defending Champion:-

Dustin Johnson

 

Notables in the Field:-

Patrick Cantlay

Paul Casey

Bryson DeChambeau

Tony Finau

Rickie Fowler

Max Homa

Dustin Johnson

Brooks Koepka

Phil Mickelson

Patrick Reed

Justin Rose

Adam Scott

Bubba Watson

Matt Wolff

 

 

Course:-

TPC River Highlands

Par 70

6,841 Yards

 

 

[iBanesto]

Feels like a tournament Paul Casey may pull off a win.

[MattyO1984]

2 minutes ago, iBanesto said:

Feels like a tournament Paul Casey may pull off a win.

 

Funny, when I saw that he was playing, that was exactly my thought. I have recollections of him running Bubba pretty close in years gone by. 

[Ferguson]

I like Paul Casey for the British Open. 

 

 

[MattyO1984]

26 minutes ago, Ferguson said:

I like Paul Casey for the Open. 

 

Fixed it for you Ferg 😉

[Ferguson]

40 minutes ago, MattyO1984 said:

 

Fixed it for you Ferg 😉

 

Could these major outlets have it wrong? 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited June 21, 2021 by Ferguson

[the bishop]

I'll take Bubba ftw.  Has won here a couple of times.  Played pretty well at Torrey all things considered.  As a darkhorse maybe Kevin Streelman who had a good US Open despite a weak Sunday.  Also a winner here he birdied I want to say the last 7 holes on Sunday the year he won.

[Hawkeye77]

Been spending a fair amount of time researching British newspaper archives going way back to when golf was first reported just for fun.  "British Open" referring to the golf championship is used by journalists in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland with regularity over the decades.  Of course, it also is used to refer to championships in curling, squash and snooker, lol.  Which makes me wonder if the change to make it known as "The Open Championship" was branding and marketing, which I'm sure it was, and maybe to give it a bit of loftier status, lol.

 

Anyway, it is now and for many years been officially known as "The Open Championship" and Americans of a certain age (me) and some journalists still occasionally refer to it as the "British Open".  Maybe we shouldn't now it's been officially something else for quite some time, but darn it . . . . it's not our fault!

[Duct Tape]

No question though on best introduction line in any sport, “The champion golfer of the year”. 

[tiderider]

we'll compromise: the Brit's Open ... could shorten that to the Britz Open, which i'm sure the RA would love ... 

 

 

Edited June 21, 2021 by tiderider

[Ferguson]

1 hour ago, Hawkeye77 said:

Been spending a fair amount of time researching British newspaper archives going way back to when golf was first reported just for fun.  "British Open" referring to the golf championship is used by journalists in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland with regularity over the decades.  Of course, it also is used to refer to championships in curling, squash and snooker, lol.  Which makes me wonder if the change to make it known as "The Open Championship" was branding and marketing, which I'm sure it was, and maybe to give it a bit of loftier status, lol.

 

Anyway, it is now and for many years been officially known as "The Open Championship" and Americans of a certain age (me) and some journalists still occasionally refer to it as the "British Open".  Maybe we shouldn't now it's been officially something else for quite some time, but darn it . . . . it's not our fault!

 

 

Other habits we can claim "not to be our fault."

 

 

 

 

[Hawkeye77]

"I am Richard, King of the . . . . well, I'm not sure what!"

 

All in good fun, @MattyO1984!

Edited June 21, 2021 by Hawkeye77

[MattyO1984]

1 hour ago, Hawkeye77 said:

"I am Richard, King of the . . . . well, I'm not sure what!"

 

All in good fun, @MattyO1984!

 

King of the Travelers Championship and all of Connecticut. 

[BombinJim]

I’ll be attending Saturday! Looking forward to it.

[KRAMER1997]

Back on CBS thank the lord! If this tournament was on NBC Jimmy Roberts would have a 10 minute segment about the umbrella that's in the middle of the pond by 15.

[PhilsFanDrew]

Impressive field coming off a major.  Although I'm pulling for someone like HVIII to break through or a past PGA Tour Champion who hasn't had much going in recent years to get back in the winners circle (Dufner, Watney, etc).  

[ebrasmus21]

7 hours ago, Ferguson said:

 

Could these major outlets have it wrong? 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I smell a conspiracy 

[TheIncelGolfer]

10 hours ago, KRAMER1997 said:

Back on CBS thank the lord! If this tournament was on NBC Jimmy Roberts would have a 10 minute segment about the umbrella that's in the middle of the pond by 15.

Also means I can stream the broadcast 😁 im running out of 7 day free trials here. Hulu, youtube.tv, and fubo are all tapped. Only have philo tv left for the Open Championship!

[bscinstnct]

[Go Cougs]

12 hours ago, tiderider said:

we'll compromise: the Brit's Open ... could shorten that to the Britz Open, which i'm sure the RA would love ... 

 

 

Well, maybe post-brexit the Brit's really have taken it back as their own.  The British Open's back in business baby.   

[bscinstnct]

13 hours ago, tiderider said:

we'll compromise: the Brit's Open ... could shorten that to the Britz Open, which i'm sure the RA would love ... 

 

 

 

Nice. I’m thinkin just….

 

The Britz 

 

Oh, or how bout,

 

The PXG Britzkrieg of Golf

 

 

Edited June 22, 2021 by bscinstnct

[tiderider]

1 hour ago, bscinstnct said:

 

Nice. I’m thinkin just….

 

The Britz 

 

Oh, or how bout,

 

The PXG Britzkrieg of Golf

 

 

[tacklingdummy]

6841 yards, Par 70. It is a pitch and putt course for these guys. Gonna be a birdie-fest unlike this past week. 

[grm24]

2 hours ago, tacklingdummy said:

6841 yards, Par 70. It is a pitch and putt course for these guys. Gonna be a birdie-fest unlike this past week. 

The Travelers is always a birdie fest.

[elwhippy]

A great event on a strong course. Always enjoy this week.

[Ferguson]

15 hours ago, ebrasmus21 said:

I smell a conspiracy 

 

I’m sure there’s an inner circle of "influential" art collectors that assembled under the guise of an "investment meeting" and decided to market the British Open as The Open.  This may or may not be a picture from that meeting.  The guy in the blue tie, - yeah, his last name is Morris, first name is Thomas.

 

 

 

[Superbrit]

23 hours ago, Hawkeye77 said:

Been spending a fair amount of time researching British newspaper archives going way back to when golf was first reported just for fun.  "British Open" referring to the golf championship is used by journalists in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland with regularity over the decades.  Of course, it also is used to refer to championships in curling, squash and snooker, lol.  Which makes me wonder if the change to make it known as "The Open Championship" was branding and marketing, which I'm sure it was, and maybe to give it a bit of loftier status, lol.

 

Anyway, it is now and for many years been officially known as "The Open Championship" and Americans of a certain age (me) and some journalists still occasionally refer to it as the "British Open".  Maybe we shouldn't now it's been officially something else for quite some time, but darn it . . . . it's not our fault!

The Open has only ever been officially called The Open Golf Championship, or simply Open Golf Championship, it started getting referred to as the Biritish Open when there became an open competition in each country, there use to be the welsh open, English open, Scottish open, Irish open etc etc, it caused less confusion

[MattyO1984]

20 hours ago, KRAMER1997 said:

Back on CBS thank the lord! If this tournament was on NBC Jimmy Roberts would have a 10 minute segment about the umbrella that's in the middle of the pond by 15.

 

It would be one of his better monologues. 

[Hawkeye77]

25 minutes ago, Superbrit said:

The Open has only ever been officially called The Open Golf Championship, or simply Open Golf Championship, it started getting referred to as the Biritish Open when there became an open competition in each country, there use to be the welsh open, English open, Scottish open, Irish open etc etc, it caused less confusion

True, and I should correct something - what I meant was what has been the intentional emphasis relatively recently in history on making sure it is known as The Open Championship.  You may be right on the more or less confusion, certainly makes sense.  But some suggest "British Open" came about more as an American journalist driven description, as if nobody over there called it that,  when in fact the term originated across the pond and was a common way of describing the event in the press over there for almost 100 years - hand in hand really with "The Open".  

[Hawkeye77]

1 hour ago, Ferguson said:

 

I’m sure there’s an inner circle of "influential" art collectors that assembled under the guise of an "investment meeting" and decided to market the British Open as The Open.  This may or may not be a picture from that meeting.  The guy in the blue tie, - yeah, his last name is Morris, first name is Thomas.

 

 

 

So Greg Norman took the pic?