The Travelers long ago found its sweet spot on the schedule, hot on the feels of the U.S. Open every year.<\/p>\n
For all the live updates, leaderboard changes, video highlights, tee times and more, stay with Golfweek all day Thursday.<\/p>\n
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See all the Thursday, first-round tee times and groupings<\/a> and keep tabs on the 2026 Travelers Championship leaderboard<\/a>.<\/p>\n Need a news break? Check out the all new PLAY hub with puzzles, games and more!<\/a> Travelers Thursday weather forecastWhere to watch, stream, follow the 2026 Travelers ChampionshipWhat’s the prize money at the 2026 Travelers Championship?<\/p>\n This being a signature event, there is a $20 million prize fund and a $3.6 million first-place check to be deposited in the winner’s bank account.<\/p>\n No there is not. The Travelers is one of five signature events that does not feature a 36-hole cut. Everyone in the field plays all 72 holes and everyone gets paid. There are eight signature events in all but only the three “player-hosted” ones (Genesis, Arnold Palmer, Memorial) have a 36-hole cut.<\/p>\n Who’s in the field for the 2026 Travelers?<\/p>\n First, you should know who isn’t: Rory McIlroy. This will be the third signature event he has missed in 2026. He’s the only one in the OWGR’s top 50 who won’t play<\/a>. So that means No. 1 Scottie Scheffler, No. 3 Cameron Young, No. 4 Matt Fitzpatrick, No. 5 Russell Henley and U.S. Open Wyndham Clark, who said \u201cit\u2019s not great to be disliked” but he does not sound consumed by it<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated June 25, 2026, 8:09 a.m. ET The season is zooming by. This week features the eighth and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27157,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[58,59,1236,1237,65,68,307,304,80,193,305,67,306,1425,62],"class_list":["post-27156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-travelers-championship","tag-accessfree","tag-sourcegolfweek","tag-sstssportsgolfpga","tag-sstsnpga-tour","tag-taggolf","tag-taginternational-sports-competitions","tag-taglive-coverage","tag-tagmodular-story","tag-tagoverall-neutral","tag-tagpga-tour","tag-tagsmg-listicle","tag-tagsports-news","tag-tagttp-live-blog","tag-travelers-championship","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/90677451007-img-4818.jpeg\")