{"id":28182,"date":"2026-06-27T07:39:52","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T07:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/28182\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T07:39:52","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T07:39:52","slug":"world-no-1-scottie-scheffler-tops-travelers-championship-leaderboard-with-second-round-60","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/28182\/","title":{"rendered":"World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler tops Travelers Championship leaderboard with second-round 60"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CROMWELL \u2013 The golf course at TPC River Highlands was soft and ready for low scores in the second round of the <a href=\"https:\/\/travelerschampionship.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Travelers Championship<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pgatour.com\/player\/46046\/scottie-scheffler\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Scottie Scheffler<\/a> made the most of it.<\/p>\n<p>The world\u2019s No. 1-ranked player, who won the tournament in 2024, tied the record for the best second round ever at the Travelers when he shot 10-under-par 60 with 11 birdies and just one hiccup, a missed 6-foot putt on No. 2, that resulted in a bogey.<\/p>\n<p>Scheffler\u2019s 60 ties Tommy Bolt\u2019s second round in 1954 and Patrick Cantlay\u2019s in 2011. Five players have shot a 60 in the tournament\u2019s history, including Mackenzie Hughes in the first round in 2020, Denny McCarthy in the first round in 2023 and Rickie Fowler in the third round in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Jim Furyk\u2019s 12-under-par 58 in the final round of the 2016 tournament stands as the best in the history of the tournament. Only Furyk and Cameron Young, who shot a 59 in the third round in 2024, have shot below 60.<\/p>\n<p>Scheffler has finished in the top 15 at the Travelers Championship every year since 2022. His previous best round came to start last year\u2019s tournament, when he shot 8-under-par 62 in the first round.<\/p>\n<p>The 20-time PGA Tour winner and four-time major champion hit 13 of 14 fairways and reached 16 of 18 greens in regulation on Friday. After shooting 6-under-64 in Thursday\u2019s first round, Scheffler leads the field at 16-under.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CROMWELL \u2013 The golf course at TPC River Highlands was soft and ready for low scores in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[685,3232,1452,1454,1326,899,1456,827,144,208,1426,1425],"class_list":["post-28182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scottie-scheffler","tag-cameron-young","tag-connecticut-news","tag-ct-news","tag-hartford-courant","tag-jim-furyk","tag-local-news","tag-max-image-preview","tag-pga","tag-pga-tour","tag-scottie-scheffler","tag-tpc-river-highlands","tag-travelers-championship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28182","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=28182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}