Featured groups: Travelers Championship

The PGA TOUR has released the four featured groupings for Thursday-Friday at this week’s Travelers Championship at TPC River Highlands in Cromwell, Connecticut.

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FEATURED GROUPS

Bubba Watson/Brooks Koepka/Tony Finau
Thursday: 7:45 a.m. ET (No. 10); Friday: 1 p.m. ET (No. 1)

• Watson closed the 2018 Travelers Championship with a 63 to win his third title at the event, one shy of Billy Casper’s record of four.
• With two wins (THE CJ CUP @ NINE BRIDGES, PGA Championship) and coming off his third runner-up of the season at last week’s U.S. Open, World No. 1 Koepka is No. 3 in the FedExCup standings.
• In search of his second career PGA TOUR victory, Finau has five runner-up finishes since the start of the 2017-18 season, tied with Koepka for most of any player in that span.

Phil Mickelson/Jordan Spieth/Marc Leishman
Thursday: 1 p.m. ET (No. 1); Friday: 7:45 a.m. (No. 10)

• A two-time winner of the event, Mickelson has not played in the Travelers Championship since 2003.
• Spieth is in search of his first victory since The 2017 Open Championship, which came in his first start following his playoff win at the Travelers Championship.
• Leishman, winner of the 2012 Travelers Championship, leads the Presidents Cup International Team standings.

Paul Casey/Jason Day/Bryson DeChambeau
Thursday: 12:50 p.m. ET (No. 1); Friday: 7:35 a.m. ET (No. 10)

• Casey, a winner this season at the Valspar Championship, has three top-fives in four starts in the Travelers Championship, including a playoff loss to Watson in 2015, and a T2 in 2018.
• Day has four top-fives in 15 starts during the 2018-19 season as he seeks first win of the season.
• DeChambeau, a five-time winner on the PGA TOUR, opened with a pair of 66s en route to a top-10 at the 2018 Travelers Championship (T9).

Patrick Cantlay/Francesco Molinari/Justin Thomas
Thursday: 7:35 a.m. (No. 10); Friday: 12:50 p.m. ET (No. 1)

• Three weeks removed from his win at the Memorial Tournament presented by Nationwide, Cantlay returns to the site where he posted a 60 as a 19-year-old at the 2011 Travelers Championship, the lowest 18-hole score by an amateur in PGA TOUR history.
• Molinari has three top-fives in the 2018-19 season, including his third PGA TOUR victory, coming at the Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by Mastercard.
• Thomas has made five career starts at the Travelers, highlighted by a T3 in 2016.