Tournaments / 2017-2018
Travelers Championship
2018-06-21 · TPC River Highlands
- Winner
- Bubba Watson
- Winning score
- -17
- Field
- 156
- Field strength
- +0.064 SG
The 2017-2018 Travelers Championship was played at TPC River Highlands, starting 21 June 2018. Bubba Watson won at 17 under par (263), 3 strokes ahead of Beau Hossler. The winning card was 70, 63, 67 and 63, and the win paid $1,260,000. Beau Hossler, J.B. Holmes, Paul Casey and Stewart Cink tied for second. 156 players started the event. The field averaged +0.064 strokes gained per round against the tour baseline, with strokes-gained data covering 89% 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 156. Search finds any player in the field, including those who missed the cut.
- Bubba Watson
- Pos
- 1
- R1
- 70
- R2
- 63
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 63
- Total
- 263
- Beau Hossler
- Pos
- T2
- R1
- 65
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 266
- J.B. Holmes
- Pos
- T2
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 266
- Paul Casey
- Pos
- T2
- R1
- 65
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 62
- R4
- 72
- Total
- 266
- Stewart Cink
- Pos
- T2
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 62
- Total
- 266
- Brian Harman
- Pos
- T6
- R1
- 64
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 267
- Kevin Tway
- Pos
- T6
- R1
- 71
- R2
- 64
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 65
- Total
- 267
- Russell Henley
- Pos
- T6
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 65
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 267
- Anirban Lahiri
- Pos
- T9
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 268
- Bryson DeChambeau
- Pos
- T9
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 68
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 268
- Chase Seiffert
- Pos
- T9
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 71
- R3
- 67
- R4
- 64
- Total
- 268
- Jason Day
- Pos
- T12
- R1
- 66
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 269
- Rory McIlroy
- Pos
- T12
- R1
- 64
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 67
- Total
- 269
- Ryan Blaum
- Pos
- T12
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 65
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 269
- Charley Hoffman
- Pos
- T15
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 66
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 270
- Danny Lee
- Pos
- T15
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 66
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 270
- Kyle Stanley
- Pos
- T15
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 69
- Total
- 270
- Patrick Cantlay
- Pos
- T15
- R1
- 69
- R2
- 68
- R3
- 65
- R4
- 68
- Total
- 270
- Brooks Koepka
- Pos
- T19
- R1
- 68
- R2
- 69
- R3
- 69
- R4
- 65
- Total
- 271
- David Lingmerth
- Pos
- T19
- R1
- 67
- R2
- 67
- R3
- 71
- R4
- 66
- Total
- 271
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 74 players actually finished. It was not published in advance, so this measures the model, not a call we made.
- Rank correlation
- +0.386
- Top-20 hit rate
- 55%
- Top-10 avg model rank
- 22.9
Grade is this event’s percentile (80th) 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Jordan Spieth | 1st | 42nd |
| Justin Thomas | 2nd | 56th |
| Paul Casey | 3rd | 2nd |
| Jason Day | 4th | 12th |
| Daniel Berger | 5th | 67th |
| Patrick Cantlay | 6th | 15th |
| Brooks Koepka | 7th | 19th |
| Russell Henley | 8th | 6th |
| Charley Hoffman | 9th | 15th |
| Rory McIlroy | 10th | 12th |
Where it was most wrong
Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.
| Player | Model | Finish |
|---|---|---|
| Daniel Berger | 5th | 67th(+62) |
| Justin Thomas | 2nd | 56th(+54) |
| Beau Hossler | 54th | 2nd(−52) |
| Chase Seiffert | 61st | 9th(−52) |
| Martin Laird | 14th | 61st(+47) |
| Steve Marino | 69th | 26th(−43) |
| Jordan Spieth | 1st | 42nd(+41) |
| Ryan Blaum | 52nd | 12th(−40) |
| Tyler Duncan | 70th | 33rd(−37) |
| Sam Ryder | 62nd | 26th(−36) |
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 2017-2018?
- Bubba Watson won the 2017-2018 Travelers Championship at TPC River Highlands, finishing 17 under par.
Where was the 2017-2018 Travelers Championship played?
- The 2017-2018 Travelers Championship was played at TPC River Highlands, starting 21 June 2018.
What was the winning score at the 2017-2018 Travelers Championship?
- The winning score was 17 under par (263 strokes), posted by Bubba Watson.
How many players were in the Travelers Championship field?
- 156 players started the 2017-2018 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.