Tournaments / 2015-2016
Travelers Championship
2016-08-04 · TPC River Highlands
- Winner
- Russell Knox
- Winning score
- -14
- Field
- 154
- Field strength
- -0.002 SG
The 2015-2016 Travelers Championship was played at TPC River Highlands, starting 4 August 2016. Russell Knox won at 14 under par (266), 1 stroke ahead of Jerry Kelly. The winning card was 67, 67, 64 and 68, and the win paid $1,188,000. Jerry Kelly finished second, and Justin Thomas and Patrick Rodgers tied for third. 154 players started the event. The field averaged -0.002 strokes gained per round against the tour baseline, with strokes-gained data covering 88% of the players. The full leaderboard below lists every player's finish position, round scores and total to par. Every figure on this page comes from the PGA Tour's published final leaderboard for the event — nothing here is estimated or modelled.
Final leaderboard
Top 20 of 154. Search finds any player in the field, including those who missed the cut.
- Russell Knox
- Pos
- 1
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 64
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 266
- Jerry Kelly
- Pos
- 2
- R1
- 64
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 64
- Total
- 267
- Justin Thomas
- Pos
- T3
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 62
- Total
- 268
- Patrick Rodgers
- Pos
- T3
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 268
- Daniel Berger
- Pos
- T5
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 62
- R4
- 74
- Total
- 269
- Jim Furyk
- Pos
- T5
- R1
- 73
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 72
- R4
- 58
- Total
- 269
- Robert Garrigus
- Pos
- T5
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 269
- Tyrone Van Aswegen
- Pos
- T5
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 71
- Total
- 269
- Brooks Koepka
- Pos
- T9
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 70
- R3
- 64
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 270
- Marc Leishman
- Pos
- T9
- R1
- 65
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 71
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 270
- Alex Cejka
- Pos
- T11
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 65
- Total
- 271
- Daniel Summerhays
- Pos
- T11
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 271
- Patrick Reed
- Pos
- T11
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 271
- Russell Henley
- Pos
- T11
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 65
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 73
- Total
- 271
- Shawn Stefani
- Pos
- T11
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 65
- Total
- 271
- Spencer Levin
- Pos
- T11
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 271
- Andres Gonzales
- Pos
- T17
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 272
- Brendan Steele
- Pos
- T17
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 64
- Total
- 272
- Carlos Ortiz
- Pos
- T17
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 272
- Louis Oosthuizen
- Pos
- T17
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 272
Model score
Backtest · reconstructedOur course-fit model re-run as it would have seen this week — using only data that existed before the first tee shot — then compared with how the 72 players actually finished. It was not published in advance, so this measures the model, not a call we made.
- Rank correlation
- +0.311
- Top-20 hit rate
- 60%
- Top-10 avg model rank
- 26.7
Grade is this event’s percentile (58th) against every other event we have scored — not an absolute pass mark. Rank correlation runs −1 to +1, where 0 is a coin flip and a full-field golf model landing near +0.35 is a genuine read.
Who the model liked
Its top 10, and where they finished.
| Player | Model | Finish |
|---|---|---|
| Matt Kuchar | 1st | 17th |
| Bubba Watson | 2nd | 25th |
| Zach Johnson | 3rd | 47th |
| Webb Simpson | 4th | 34th |
| Paul Casey | 5th | 17th |
| Justin Thomas | 6th | 3rd |
| Jim Furyk | 7th | 5th |
| Brooks Koepka | 8th | 9th |
| Francesco Molinari | 9th | 47th |
| Brendan Steele | 10th | 17th |
Where it was most wrong
Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.
| Player | Model | Finish |
|---|---|---|
| Robert Garrigus | 63rd | 5th(−58) |
| Patrick Rodgers | 57th | 3rd(−54) |
| Andres Gonzales | 67th | 17th(−50) |
| David Toms | 26th | 73rd(+47) |
| Zach Johnson | 3rd | 47th(+44) |
| Tyrone Van Aswegen | 47th | 5th(−42) |
| Spencer Levin | 53rd | 11th(−42) |
| Carlos Ortiz | 58th | 17th(−41) |
| Henrik Norlander | 65th | 25th(−40) |
| Francesco Molinari | 9th | 47th(+38) |
One known caveat. Player stats, form and course history are all restricted to what existed before this event. The course archetype is not — it is derived from the venue’s full history, including this edition. That flatters the model slightly and equally at every venue. How the model works.
The venue
This event was played at TPC River Highlands in Cromwell, Connecticut, USA. The venue page carries its scorecard, hosting history and every other tour event played there.
Common questions
Who won the Travelers Championship in 2015-2016?
- Russell Knox won the 2015-2016 Travelers Championship at TPC River Highlands, finishing 14 under par.
Where was the 2015-2016 Travelers Championship played?
- The 2015-2016 Travelers Championship was played at TPC River Highlands, starting 4 August 2016.
What was the winning score at the 2015-2016 Travelers Championship?
- The winning score was 14 under par (266 strokes), posted by Russell Knox.
How many players were in the Travelers Championship field?
- 154 players started the 2015-2016 Travelers Championship. Every one of them appears on the leaderboard below.
Where these numbers come from
Finishes, round scores and to-par figures are the PGA Tour's own published final leaderboard for this event. Nothing is estimated or interpolated — where the tour published no value, this page shows a gap rather than a guess. Full sourcing notes are on the methodology page, and every stat name is defined in the glossary.