Travelers Championship R1

Travelers Championship 2021 R1
June 24-27
TPC River Highlands, Cromwell, Connecticut
$7,400,000
Round 2, Round 3, Round 4

Estimated reading time: 7 minutes

Satoshi Kodaira and Kramer Hickok both shot 63s to tie for the opening lead in the Travelers Championship at TPC River Island on Thursday.

Travelers Championship 2021 R1

Kodaira made four birdies on the back nine to make the turn in 31, then two birdies and an eagle at the par-4 2nd unfortunately followed by a bogey at the par-3 8th to return in 32. He matched his best score on Tour dating back to the 2018 RBC Heritage, his only victory so far.

“I knew it was on target but didn’t see it go in,” he said of his eagle. “I heard the applause, so I knew it went in.”

Travelers Championship 2021 R1

Hickok’s day started with a terrible warmup session in the morning with balls going everywhere.

“So I really changed my strategy,” he said. “You just take a lot weight off your shoulders and you just go and simplify things. Just saying, ‘I don’t have that shot today. I’m not going to try and hit it.’ Just go with what you got.”

Travelers Championship 2021 R1

His round started with an ominous bogey at the 10th but he soon recovered and fired eight birdies from the 14th without dropping a stroke.

“I really only hit one bad putt – on the par-5 13th. Other than that, I just felt like the holes looked awfully big today. I made a lot of good putts today, and the greens are rolling so good that just the holes look big.”

Hickok’s best result on Tour was a tie for eighth at the Bermuda Championship earlier this season.

Phil Mickelson made his second-longest putt since the Tour started tracking them in 2004. The two-time Travelers champion sank a 64-foot birdie putt on the par-4 9th followed by a 40-footer at the par-4 10th and closed with a 69.

Travelers Championship 2021 R1

“That long birdie putt, it’s just a bonus. You’re just trying to lag it up there close and it just fell in,” said Mickelson. “Same thing on 10, after making a mistake and having that long par putt. To make it was a nice little boost. Unfortunately, I didn’t take advantage of that on the back nine.

“I let a good opportunity go after playing the front nine a couple under. I was very close to hitting a lot of really good shots but they were just fractionally off.”

Defending champion Dustin Johnson, who lost the world number 1 position after the U.S. Open, bogeyed the second, double bogeyed the third hole and made a single bogey at the 10th to make the turn at 2-over. He made three birdies and another bogey at the 13th to close his round at even par and is T76.

Travelers Championship 2021 R1

Pos.	Player	To Par	R1
T1	Kramer Hickok *	-7	63
T1	Satoshi Kodaira *	-7	63
3	Talor Gooch *	-6	64
T4	Brice Garnett	-5	65
T4	Beau Hossler	-5	65
T4	Maverick McNealy	-5	65
T4	Henrik Norlander *	-5	65
T4	Patrick Rodgers *	-5	65
T9	Sam Burns	-4	66
T9	Zach Johnson *	-4	66
T9	Seamus Power	-4	66
T9	Kevin Stadler	-4	66
T9	Sepp Straka *	-4	66
T9	Bubba Watson	-4	66
T15	Joseph Bramlett	-3	67
T15	Harris English	-3	67
T15	Russell Henley *	-3	67
T15	Tom Hoge *	-3	67
T15	Mackenzie Hughes *	-3	67
T15	Tom Lewis *	-3	67
T15	Sebastián Muñoz	-3	67
T15	Ted Potter, Jr.	-3	67
T15	Cameron Smith	-3	67
T15	Kevin Streelman *	-3	67
T25	Byeong Hun An	-2	68
T25	Jonas Blixt *	-2	68
T25	Patrick Cantlay *	-2	68
T25	Kevin Chappell	-2	68
T25	Stewart Cink *	-2	68
T25	Doug Ghim *	-2	68
T25	Michael Gligic *	-2	68
T25	Brian Harman *	-2	68
T25	Jim Herman	-2	68
T25	Sung Kang	-2	68
T25	Peter Malnati *	-2	68
T25	Troy Merritt *	-2	68
T25	Joaquin Niemann	-2	68
T25	John Pak *	-2	68
T25	Pat Perez	-2	68
T25	Ian Poulter *	-2	68
T25	Brandt Snedeker *	-2	68
T25	Stephen Stallings Jr. *	-2	68
T25	Robert Streb *	-2	68
T25	Brendon Todd	-2	68
T45	Scott Brown *	-1	69
T45	Jason Day	-1	69
T45	Bryson DeChambeau *	-1	69
T45	Tyler Duncan	-1	69
T45	Rickie Fowler	-1	69
T45	Scott Harrington	-1	69
T45	Garrick Higgo *	-1	69
T45	Max Homa *	-1	69
T45	Mark Hubbard	-1	69
T45	Brooks Koepka	-1	69
T45	Chase Koepka *	-1	69
T45	Nate Lashley	-1	69
T45	Hank Lebioda *	-1	69
T45	K.H. Lee	-1	69
T45	Marc Leishman *	-1	69
T45	Hunter Mahan	-1	69
T45	Tyler McCumber *	-1	69
T45	Phil Mickelson	-1	69
T45	Guido Migliozzi *	-1	69
T45	Kevin Na	-1	69
T45	Scott Piercy *	-1	69
T45	Doc Redman	-1	69
T45	Patrick Reed *	-1	69
T45	Sam Ryder	-1	69
T45	Scottie Scheffler *	-1	69
T45	Adam Scott *	-1	69
T45	Brendan Steele	-1	69
T45	Brian Stuard	-1	69
T45	Andrew Svoboda *	-1	69
T45	Kris Ventura	-1	69
T45	Vincent Whaley	-1	69
Projected Cut: ( -1 )
T76	Ryan Armour *	E	70
T76	David Hearn	E	70
T76	Lucas Herbert	E	70
T76	J.B. Holmes *	E	70
T76	Dustin Johnson	E	70
T76	Matt Jones	E	70
T76	Kevin Kisner *	E	70
T76	Patton Kizzire	E	70
T76	Anirban Lahiri	E	70
T76	Sean O’Hair *	E	70
T76	Carlos Ortiz *	E	70
T76	Cameron Percy	E	70
T76	Andrew Putnam	E	70
T76	Chez Reavie	E	70
T76	Justin Rose *	E	70
T76	Kyle Stanley	E	70
T76	Nick Taylor *	E	70
T76	Vaughn Taylor *	E	70
T76	Kevin Tway	E	70
T76	Harold Varner III *	E	70
T96	Paul Casey	1	71
T96	Wyndham Clark	1	71
T96	Will Gordon	1	71
T96	Lanto Griffin *	1	71
T96	Adam Hadwin	1	71
T96	J.J. Henry *	1	71
T96	Chris Kirk	1	71
T96	Danny Lee *	1	71
T96	William McGirt *	1	71
T96	Keith Mitchell	1	71
T96	Rob Oppenheim	1	71
T96	J.J. Spaun *	1	71
T96	Cameron Tringale *	1	71
T96	Richy Werenski *	1	71
T110	Abraham Ancer *	2	72
T110	Keegan Bradley *	2	72
T110	Rafa Cabrera Bello *	2	72
T110	Rafael Campos	2	72
T110	Sebastian Cappelen	2	72
T110	Jason Dufner *	2	72
T110	Austin Eckroat *	2	72
T110	Brian Gay *	2	72
T110	Brandon Hagy *	2	72
T110	Charley Hoffman	2	72
T110	Denny McCarthy *	2	72
T110	Ryan Moore	2	72
T110	C.T. Pan *	2	72
T110	Adam Schenk	2	72
T110	Scott Stallings	2	72
T110	Michael Thompson *	2	72
T126	Alex Beach *	3	73
T126	Ryan Brehm	3	73
T126	Bronson Burgoon *	3	73
T126	Harry Higgs	3	73
T126	Russell Knox	3	73
T126	Francesco Molinari	3	73
T126	Grayson Murray	3	73
T126	Rory Sabbatini	3	73
T126	Chase Seiffert	3	73
T126	Robby Shelton *	3	73
T126	Roger Sloan *	3	73
T126	Davis Thompson	3	73
T126	D.J. Trahan *	3	73
T126	Aaron Wise *	3	73
T140	Austin Cook *	4	74
T140	Dylan Frittelli	4	74
T140	Emiliano Grillo *	4	74
T140	Chesson Hadley	4	74
T140	Si Woo Kim	4	74
T140	Michael Kim	4	74
T140	Matthew NeSmith	4	74
T140	Martin Trainer *	4	74
T148	David Lipsky	5	75
T148	Hudson Swafford *	5	75
T150	Tony Finau	6	76
T150	Adam Long *	6	76
T150	Matthew Wolff	6	76
153	Bo Van Pelt	7	77
T154	Nick Watney	8	78
T154	Luke Donald *	8	78
156	Brian Keiser *	13	83
* Player started on the back nine