Travelers Championship Director Says He Would 'love' To Have Liv Players Back At Tournament

The Travelers Championship does not request immoderate thief bringing successful play fans successful June.

It's already nan second-most attended PGA Tour arena of nan year, down only nan Waste Management Open successful Scottsdale.

The tourney itself is besides a hit. Last year, Scottie Scheffler defeated Tom Kim successful a playoff. And, pinch nan deficiency of a tourney successful nan tri-state area, fans from galore states flock to TPC River Highlands successful Cromwell, Connecticut. for nan experience.

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A wide position of nan Travelers Championship Tee connected nan 3rd spread during nan 3rd information of nan Travelers Championship play tourney astatine TPC River Highlands.  (Gregory Fisher-USA Today Sports)

But immoderate stars, of course, are missing.

Some of nan sport's biggest names (Jon Rahm, Bryson DeChambeau, Brooks Koepka) are, of course, ineligible for nan Travelers, being a portion of LIV Golf.

But, arsenic LIV and nan PGA proceed to activity connected their woody (two years successful nan making), nan Travelers would invited those who defected backmost pinch unfastened arms, if and erstwhile it happens.

"I’ve been doing this for 20 years, I cognize nan guys. These are individual to us," Travelers Championship head Nathan Grube said successful an question and reply pinch Fox News Digital. We saw each nan LIV guys astatine Augusta, and we emotion those guys. It’s individual for us. I person nary power complete erstwhile nan guys will beryllium back, but we’re making judge that erstwhile that does happen, we cognize they’re going to want to travel present and play. I person nary thought what’s going to happen, but we emotion nan guys, we put successful them, we get to cognize them. I wish them nan best, and I’d emotion to spot them here."

A wide position of nan 18th greenish during nan last information of nan Travelers Championship play tournament.  (Vincent Carchietta-USA Today Sports)

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Since nan Northern Trust nary longer exists, though, galore successful New Jersey and New York don't person a much section option, and Grube and his squad person jumped astatine nan chance to make their tournament's attendance 1 of nan champion connected circuit (while still claiming New England arsenic their target audience).

"We've done media events pinch different groups of people. We spell down there, we person sponsors. I person committee members successful nan tri-state area. We do media buys, players person helped us. We are New England's event, right? And we clasp that, we effort to beryllium alert of that, and we effort to make judge families understand that you tin walk your time pinch us. And we're starting to propulsion much and much and much from nan full New England region. I emotion that. This is thing that New England should beryllium proud of."

The pin successful nan first spread during nan 2nd information of nan Travelers Championship play tourney astatine TCP River Highlands.  (Gregory Fisher-USA Today Sports)

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Scheffler tin concur.

"It's a week successful which nan players, our families and our caddies get treated arsenic bully arsenic we spell each year. If you inquire immoderate caddie connected circuit what their favourite arena is, I deliberation they'd opportunity nan Travelers Championship," Schefflersaid astatine nan tournament's media day this week.

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