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Travelers Championship 2024 Round 1 Thursday tee times and pairings
Rory McIlroy is the highest-profile absentee after his US Open collapse, while Tiger Woods is also missing from the field at TPC River Highlands.
The busy schedule on the PGA Tour continues with the Travelers Championship 2024, the eighth and final Signature Event of the season, which comes hot on the heels of the 2024 US Open and the Memorial, which also had elevated status. The tournament at TPC River Highlands in Cromwell, Connecticut gets underway on Thursday (20 June) and a stellar field will be bidding for the $3.6 million first prize, the joint third highest sum on offer on tour this season.
Why aren’t Rory McIlroy and Tiger Woods playing at the Travelers Championship 2024?
One man who won’t be in contention, however, is Rory McIlroy. The Northern Irishman had been due to play this week but withdrew from the tournament following his collapse in the final few holes of the US Open, which allowed Bryson DeChambeau to win. McIlroy bogeyed three of his last four holes at Pinehurst No. 2 on Sunday, which included two missed putts from very close range, throwing away his chance of a first major in 10 years.
“I’m going to take a few weeks away from the game to process everything and build myself back up for my defense of the Genesis Scottish Open and The Open at Royal Troon,” the 35-year-old stated.
15-time major winner Tiger Woods won’t be playing either, despite receiving a lifetime achievement exemption from the PGA Tour earlier this week. That will enable him to feature in Signature Events from 2025 onwards but came too late for him to plan on being involved at TPC River Islands.
Scheffler heads stellar field
Everyone else you’d expect to be there will be, including Scottie Scheffler (World No.1), Xander Schauffele (No. 3), Ludvig Aberg (No. 4), Wyndham Clark (No. 5), Viktor Hovland (No. 6), Collin Morikawa (No. 7) and Patrick Cantlay (No. 8).
Keegan Bradley is the defending champion after winning his sixth PGA Tour title at last year’s event.
Travelers Championship 2024: Round 1 tee times
- 8:05 a.m. - Chris Gotterup
- 8:15 a.m. - Robert MacIntyre, Jake Knapp
- 8:25 a.m. - Akshay Bhatia, Thomas Detry
- 8:35 a.m. - Taylor Pendrith, Victor Perez
- 8:45 a.m. - Davis Riley, Rickie Fowler
- 8:55 a.m. - Lee Hodges, Eric Cole
- 9:05 a.m. - Brian Harman, Tom Hoge
- 9:15 a.m. - Nick Taylor, Harris English
- 9:25 a.m. - Taylor Moore, Seamus Power
- 9:40 a.m. - Kurt Kitayama, Mackenzie Hughes
- 9:50 a.m. - Sahith Theegala, Sepp Straka
- 10:00 a.m. - Jason Day, J.T. Poston
- 10:10 a.m. - Cameron Young, Patrick Rodgers
- 10:20 a.m. - Hideki Matsuyama, Keegan Bradley
- 10:30 a.m. - Scottie Scheffler, Max Homa
- 10:40 a.m. - Wyndham Clark, Jordan Spieth
- 10:50 a.m. - Shane Lowry, Justin Thomas
- 11:00 a.m. - Nick Dunlap, Adam Scott
- 11:15 a.m. - Will Zalatoris, Ben Griffin
- 11:25 a.m. - Austin Eckroat, Webb Simpson
- 11:35 a.m. - Peter Malnati, Christiaan Bezuidenhout
- 11:45 a.m. - Emiliano Grillo, Andrew Putnam
- 11:55 a.m. - Sam Burns, Byeong Hun An
- 12:05 p.m. - Si Woo Kim, Adam Svensson
- 12:15 p.m. - Matt Fitzpatrick, Adam Hadwin
- 12:25 p.m. - Tom Kim, Corey Conners
- 12:35 p.m. - Justin Rose, Adam Schenk
- 12:50 p.m. - Chris Kirk, Sungjae Im
- 1:00 p.m. - Russell Henley, Denny McCarthy
- 1:10 p.m. - Cam Davis, Brendon Todd
- 1:20 p.m. - Lucas Glover, Tommy Fleetwood
- 1:30 p.m. - Collin Morikawa, Viktor Hovland
- 1:40 p.m. - Tony Finau, Patrick Cantlay
- 1:50 p.m. - Xander Schauffele, Matthieu Pavon
- 2:00 p.m. - Ludvig Åberg, Michael Thorbjornsen
- 2:10 p.m. - Billy Horschel, Stephan Jaeger
All times ET.
As one of the PGA Tour’s non-invitational Signature Events, there will be no cut after the second round of the Travelers Championship 2024, which means the 71 participants will play all four rounds.