The Travelers Championship donates 100 percent of net proceeds to charity and has generated more than $33 million since the event began in 1952.
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Thompson is another strong value option following a tie for fourth at the PGA Championship and another top-15 finish the week before at the RBC Canadian Open.
Traditionally, the bentgrass greens are some of the slowest on the PGA TOUR.
When he’s not playing – men’s golf is August 11-13 and Watson will fly to Rio Sunday night after the completion of this week’s Travelers Championship, where he’s the defending champion – he’ll be a fan, sitting in general admission with his manager Jens Beck and his “money man”, business associate Randall Wells.
“With the kids’ zone (among other activities), they go beyond what other tournaments do”, said Watson, who along with his wife travels with two small children – daughter Dakota, 2, and son Caleb, 4.
Watson has fond memories of last year’s Travelers Championship where he beat England’s Paul Casey in a playoff to win the title for a second time. Other short odds to prevail are Branden Grace and Brooks Koepka, who have 16/1 odds. “My wife and I love the area, love the support of the people, love the golf course”. Which golfers should you consider wagering on this weekend? Some rolling hills sprinkle through the course and a scattering of trees, the front nine plays much more open and forgiving then the back 9. Until then there is no scar tissue.
It looks as if the double major victor is doing all the things that he needs to, to perform well this week. That’s about as divergent as you can get on golfing styles. With all the first-time major winners this year, Reed is one of the best yet to win one. What does he have to do to turn it around? But anytime you come back to a place where you’ve had success, you can get something rekindled, get some confidence.
The 2016 Travelers Championship starts on Thursday at TPC River Highlands in Cromwell, Conn., with PGA Tour Live, Golf Channel and CBS Sports all streaming coverage of the tournament. IS turning into a streaky player and this could kick start him. “Fencing, I think I bought”.
In an event which has been kind to first-time winners, I’m going for Kevin Chappell to shed his maiden tag this week. With our schedule this year, it’s been hard for players to get into a rhythm.
Bryson DeChambeau has had a lot of company among the younger crowd since he turned pro after the Masters.
Did you happen to notice in my write up above who re-designed this course?
It’s possible any one of them could win. Jon Rahm is the leader of the pack right now. The Aussie, over the last six weeks, has an average adjusted round score of 68.4 (7th best in the field), and a GIR percentage of 76.4% (4th best in the field).
Either way, he’s running out of time. Finally he’s 22 on the tour in strokes gained from putting.
Give us your favorites and dark horses, please.
Justin Spieth, Rory McElroy and No. 1 player Jason Day, who played last year after the U.S. Open, are not part of the field, but the Travelers has thrived for years without landing some of the game’s biggest names, such as Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson. Also, Baddeley did have a top-five finish at the Travelers Championship back in 2014. And you can’t dismiss Bubba.
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Eight players in the world Top 20 are playing this week, and Watson is the highest-ranked at No. 6.
