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Preview & Picks: The Travelers Championship

Preview & Picks: The Travelers Championship

Plus: 3 Min Slice Cure, Trivia, and More.

Josey Orr
June 18, 2025

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The 3 Minute Slice Cure

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Preview & Picks: The Travelers Championship

Oakmont was a grind. A missed fairway was basically an auto-bogey.

The Travelers this week?

A much friendlier setup. And something tells us the TOUR guys are gonna be just fine with that.

TPC River Highlands clocks in just under 6,900 yards - not long by today’s standards - but it’s tight and demands accuracy. Still, let’s not oversell the challenge. Winning scores have hovered around 20-under. It’s a birdie-fest.

Scottie won it last year in a playoff over Tom Kim after both finished at 22-under.

So yeah, expect lower scores, happier golfers, and a whole lot more red numbers on the board.

Scottie had a thoughtful answer this morning about whether courses like this are too easy. Worth a listen.

Are PGA Tour courses too easy?
Scottie Scheffler explains what a “fair test” looks like in the eyes of Tour players and why he thinks it’s weird golf is looked at differently than other pro sports.
— GOLF.com (@GOLF_com)
2:31 PM • Jun 18, 2025

The Details

Previous Winners

How To Watch

TOUR’s final Signature Event of 2025 begins tomorrow on ESPN+ at 8 a.m. ET

Shanks Picks

Oakmont crushed the golfers and our card last week. Did anyone out there pick JJ Spaun?

Winner: Scottie Scheffler +300: We will stop picking Scottie when he’s no longer the best player in the world. Maybe about 10 years from now?

Winner: Viktor Hovland +3000: Vik was awesome last week, but his putter let him down. The test on the greens won’t be nearly as tough at The Travelers.

Winner: Brian Harman +8000: Brian Harman loves TPC River Highlands. He’s finished Top 10 here four years in a row. The odds are long enough to make you raise an eyebrow though, so he may be a safer Top 10 play, where he is +470 incl ties on Fanduel.

Top Twenty: Cameron Young +130: Recent form pick. He’s been knocking on the door of his first PGA Tour Victory, but it just won’t open. Top Twenty feels safe.

Top Twenty: Jason Day +160: Jason Day has the game to succeed at TPC River Highlands and he played pretty well at Oakmont last week, finishing T23.

Top Twenty: Luke Clanton +210: While he only made his professional debut at the Canadian Open a few weeks ago, the kid can flat out play. He may not be ready to win a signature event just yet, but look for him to start hanging around.