{"id":43198,"date":"2026-07-27T21:41:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T21:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/43198\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T21:41:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T21:41:07","slug":"travelers-to-remain-top-pga-tour-event-in-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/43198\/","title":{"rendered":"Travelers to remain top PGA Tour event in ’28"},"content":{"rendered":"

As the PGA Tour<\/a> continues to evolve and move forward, there was good news for Connecticut on Monday. The Travelers Championship will not be left behind.<\/p>\n

The TPC River Highlands in Cromwell<\/a> will be the site for one more \u201cSignature Event\u201d tournament next June, before that term is retired. The new competitive model will feature a \u201cChampionship Series\u201d of 23 or 24 events during the course of the season, and the PGA Tour announced the Travelers will be one of those<\/a> starting in 2028.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis has been an extremely successful tournament by every metric,\u201d Brian Rolapp, the PGA Tour\u2019s<\/a> CEO and incoming commissioner, said during the Travelers in June. \u201cOur members love it. Travelers is an amazing partner. We obviously have an affinity for this course. \u2026 I think they do a lot of things that we\u2019re looking for in a Championship Series event.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dom Amore: As PGA Tour evolves, Travelers Championship expects to be, and should remain top-shelf<\/a><\/p>\n

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Signature Events were established four years ago, in response to the defection of many of the top golfers to Saudi-backed LIVGolf <\/a>for large paydays. The field was cut down to about 80, with no cuts, and with the top golfers required to play in a certain number of Signature Events, the Travelers has gotten nearly all of them, including 49 of the top 50 ranked players on The Tour in 2026 to compete for the $20 million purse.<\/p>\n

The Championship Series will assemble fields of about 120, closer to the old concept, with a cut down after two rounds.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we\u2019re moving in the right direction for sure,\u201d said Scottie Scheffler,\u00a0 the No. 1<\/a> golfer in the world, during the Travelers. \u201cI think what people want is to get the best players playing together more often. I\u2019m not sure if the smaller fields were a huge fan favorite, so getting fields back to 120-man fields, getting a cut back, I think those are good changes. The more we can simplify it for people, the better, especially when you\u2019re looking at tournaments stretched across an entire season. So kind of the simplifying of you\u2019re going to see the same 120 guys most of the time at the same tournaments across the country for throughout our season. I think it\u2019s easier for our fans to follow.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the competition will get better. I think when you look at larger fields it will be much harder to win tournaments.\u201d<\/p>\n

The full slate of Championship Series events and the dates they will be played will be revealed at a later date. The plan is for 23 or 24, including The Players Championship, the four major championships, postseason events and international team events, such as the Presidents Cup and Ryder Cup. The regular PGA Tour season will run from February through August. The purse is expected to be similar to Signature Events, but is bound to rise over time.<\/p>\n

Rolapp, who came from the NFL, took over the business side of the PGA a year ago before succeeding Jay Monahan as commissioner. With a background in TV rights revenue, he has floated the idea of having more events, particularly championship events, in major markets, including New York and Boston. Currently,\u00a0 the Travelers is the only Tour stop in the Northeast.<\/p>\n

Dom Amore: World\u2019s best golfer will lament one that got away at Travelers Championship<\/a><\/p>\n

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But at the outset, Connecticut will remain in the top tier of the new structure.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur goal every year is for the Travelers Championship to be one of the best tournaments on the PGA Tour, so being part of the upcoming Championship Series is validation of the collective effort that Travelers, the tournament team, fans and volunteers have invested over the past two decades,\u201d said Andy Bessette, executive VP<\/a> and chief administrative officer at Travelers. \u201cWe thank the Tour for this opportunity and are excited to partner with them on working hard to deliver a world-class experience.\u201d<\/p>\n

The PGA has stopped in Connecticut since 1952, with the Greater Hartford Open at Wethersfield CC, moving to the redesigned TPC in Cromwell in 1984. Several title sponsors came and went before The Travelers took over in 2007. Since then, the tournament has garnered several awards from the ballots of fans and players as a favorite stop on The Tour.\u00a0 It won the Players Choice award in 2017 and 18.<\/a> Last month it was named \u201cBest Golf Tournament for Fans\u201d in the USA Today Sports Readers\u2019 Choice Awards<\/a>. The event has raised more than $40 million for more than 1,000 local charities, including a record $5 million in 2026.<\/p>\n

An estimated 200,000 attended the tournament in June, as Viktor Hovland defeated Scheffler i<\/a>n a one-hole playoff on June 29 to take home $3.6 million. Scheffler, the 2024 Travelers champ, took home $2.1 million.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis partnership with Travelers and with the PGA Tour has taken the tournament to incredible new heights,\u201d said Nathan Grube, longtime tournament director. \u201cWe\u2019re proud of the Travelers Championship, the economic impact it makes on our community and the state of Connecticut, and the hundreds of local charities that continue to benefit financially.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the PGA Tour continues to evolve and move forward, there was good news for Connecticut on Monday.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43199,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[1453,10029,1454,899,1456,10293,144,399,208,1814,1426,1425,424],"class_list":["post-43198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scottie-scheffler","tag-connecticut","tag-ctnews","tag-hartford-courant","tag-local-news","tag-max-image-preview","tag-pga-championship-series","tag-pga-tour","tag-rory-mcilroy","tag-scottie-scheffler","tag-signature-event","tag-tpc-river-highlands","tag-travelers-championship","tag-wyndham-clark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43198","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=43198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}