ORLANDO, Fla. — Bob Dugan’s life changed forever without warning.

The lifelong golfer and avid angler was overseeing the prestigious Northern Amateur in July 1986 when he met the inventor of Thor Guard, a lightning prediction system. Dugan was intrigued by the man’s fish finder but skeptical when the conversation turned to predicting ...Read more

CROMWELL, Conn. — Court was back in session, about 12 hours after it was adjourned due to rain and darkness out in Cromwell.

The verdict was reached quickly at the Travelers Championship Monday morning, in about 15 minutes — a verdict somewhat surprising, arrived at in a most shocking manner.

Even in a sport as hard to predict as golf, the...Read more

CROMWELL, Conn. — Returning to TPC River Highlands for a Monday morning sudden-death playoff to decide the Travelers Championship, Viktor Hovland was surgical.

The confident Norwegian striped his tee shot on No. 18 to the middle of the fairway and landed on the green six feet, seven inches from the hole. Scottie Scheffler, the top-ranked ...Read more

CROMWELL, Conn. — After an 80-minute weather delay that changed the tenor of the TPC River Highlands just ahead of the Travelers Championship finish, Scottie Scheffler and Viktor Hovland were both staring down putts on opposite sides of the 18th green.

Scheffler’s shot for birdie and the lead in the final round was from 27 feet, six inches....Read more

CROMWELL, Conn. – While leaders Scottie Scheffler and Viktor Hovland failed to separate from the pack in the final round of the Travelers Championship on Sunday, World No. 9 Collin Morikawa came charging from nine shots back.

He had just gotten into the clubhouse at 20-under and devoured an ice cream sandwich when the round was delayed for 80...Read more

CROMWELL, Conn. — Things were shaping up pretty much as expected Sunday. Scottie Scheffler, No.1 player in the world, and Viktor Hovland, with his army of fans from Norway following his every stroke, were dueling for the Travelers Championship.

They seemed to be playing it a little too safe, though, and while they were sticking close to par ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Haeran Ryu survived a wet, windy and wild final round at Hazeltine National on Sunday, winning the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship as her first career major on a day that saw four different leaders and world No. 1 Nelly Korda close to within two shots through 10 holes. Korda later faded in her quest for a third straight major ...Read more

CROMWELL, Conn. — U.S. Open champion Wyndham Clark is running on fumes.

He admitted that appearing at the Travelers Championship a week after claiming the second major of his career was challenging, mostly because of the celebration that followed. But TPC River Highlands is where he made his first career start in 2017, so he felt obligated to...Read more

CROMWELL, Conn. — Golf is a relatively simple game at it’s core. Get the ball from the tee to the hole in as few strokes as possible, that’s about it.

The reactions, though, can be complicated. Hundreds of thousands of fans flock to the Travelers Championship each year, cluster around the green, and when you hear the crowd noise swell ...Read more

CROMWELL, Conn. — Norwegian soccer fans surrounded the 18th green dancing and rowed like Vikings as Viktor Hovland leapfrogged Scottie Scheffler with his final putt on Saturday at the Travelers Championship.

Hovland came into the day with the tall task of making up two strokes on the world’s top golfer. He did so with three birdies on the ...Read more

FORT WORTH, Texas — The dividing line on the PGA Tour schedule has existed for decades, but beginning in 2028 that border will be a de facto wall that looks a lot like college football’s Power 4-and-everyone-else calendar.

Think of the PGA Tour’s future Track 1 tournaments as Georgia vs. Tennessee football, and Track 2 closer to ...Read more

CROMWELL, Conn. — The wind was low and the TPC River Highlands course was soft when the second round of the Travelers Championship began after a short weather delay on Friday morning.

The conditions were perfect for some low scores. And the pros provided them.

Scottie Scheffler’s 10-under-par 60, two shots off the tournament record, ...Read more

CROMWELL, Conn. — Scottie Scheffler has made excellence so matter-of-fact, it’s easy to forget he is the best golfer in the world, and has been for years.

It’s easy to wonder what’s wrong when he goes a few months without hoisting a trophy, even though he has been in contention week after week.

It’s easy to forget, too, that we are ...Read more

CROMWELL, Conn. – Eric Cole was early to the top of the leaderboard in Round 1 of the Travelers Championship on Thursday.

He took advantage of the soft greens on a comfortable morning at TPC River Highlands and avoided mistakes as he followed a 2-under front nine with a 5-under 35 on the back. It was a 63-foot, nine-inch chip shot from just ...Read more

CROMWELL, Conn. — Eric Cole was having one of those days; the kind that makes the years it took to make the PGA Tour, and the years toiling, still in search of his first win, worthwhile.

Bogey-free, birdie-laden, Cole leaned over a chip shot, 63 feet, 9 inches from the cup on No. 13. This one hit the softened green just right and rolled in ...Read more

CROMWELL, Conn. – Matt Fitzpatrick, the English golfer ranked fourth in the world and second in the FedExCup standings entering the Travelers Championship, came to Connecticut with a different club in his bag.

He struggled off the tee last week at the U.S. Open, and has been struggling since his driver cracked before the Truist Championship ...Read more

CROMWELL, Conn. — Golf has always been a spectator sport a world apart from the rest. Could you imagine holding up a “quiet please” sign at Gampel Pavilion? Any baseball fan ever get offended when a ballplayer took his bat to the nearest water cooler after striking out?

In golf, a certain decorum has been part of the deal for a century ...Read more

DENVER — Bad guys don’t hug. Would a villain go out of his way to comfort a distraught teen while she watched her mother fade away? Would one of the PGA’s so-called scoundrels, his schedule crammed like weekend traffic on I-70, willingly offer up a free shoulder to cry on?

“He’s been great, just super gracious,” Jeff Higgins told me...Read more

CROMWELL, Conn. — For 20 years, the Travelers Championship has brought world-class golf to our neck of the woods. The tournament’s hierarchy took a struggling PGA stop and ran with it, making it a must-play for most of the top players in the world, and a keeper for the pro golf establishment.

And while pro golf has undergone quite a lot of ...Read more

CROMWELL, Conn. — Ben James walked through the back nine at the TPC River Highlands, his practice round squeezed in between rain showers.

This was his day at the office. It’s all about golf now for the rookie pro from Milford.

“I don’t call it a job, I’m very lucky I get to go play golf every day,” said James, who has played in the...Read more