The Travelers Championship: A Connecticut Golf Tradition

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Travelers Championship - Fans at the 18th   (© Golf Girl Media) 

It's the third week in June and numerous golf fans are undoubtedly experiencing an anual period of post-US-Open-Malaise right about now.

After all, the season's second major is now history, the days will soon be getting shorter, and summer... which doesn't even officially begin till Wednesday... already seems to be waning.

Here in Connecticut however, we've got the perfect antidote to that yearly hangover; it's called the Travelers Championship and it's an event that nutmeg state golf fans... such as myself... look forward to all year.  Our state's biggest sporting event has a colorful history and charitable tradition, with benefits that extend well beyond this yearly week of golf festivities.

 Women's Day at the Travelers (© Golf Girl Media) 

The opening ceremony for the 2012 Travelers Championship took place on the first tee box at TPC River Highlands this morning, celebrating the tournament's 60th anniversary and launching the week of fun filled activities that lead up to Sunday's final round. The field is impressive, to say the least. Defending champion Fredrik Jacobson... who hit a stellar third round 68 at the Olympic Club on Saturday... will be there, along with past champions like Bubba Watson and Hunter Mahan. A bunch of awesome internationals will be making their first appearance in Cromwell including Ryo Ishikawa, Angel Cabrera, Camilo Villegas and Louis Oosthuizen and a very newly minted major champion by the name of Webb Simpson.  Keegan Bradley, Zach Johnson, Vijay Singh are also among the multitude of major champions competing in Connecticut this week. 


We'll be spending some time up in Cromwell later this week and I'm quite sure we'll have some fun stories to share.  In the meantime you may want to check some of my posts from past Travelers Championships and check out the following links for additional tournament info:

Travelers Championship 2012 Schedule of Events
Travelers Championship 2012 Field of Players
Travelers Championship Tournament Charities
Travelers Championship on PGATour.com
The Travelers Championship on Facebook
The Travelers Championship on Twitter