Travelers Championship director says he would 'love' to have LIV players back at tournament

The Travelers Championship does not request immoderate assistance bringing successful play fans successful June.

It's already the second-most attended PGA Tour lawsuit of the year, down lone the Waste Management Open successful Scottsdale.

The tourney itself is besides a hit. Last year, Scottie Scheffler defeated Tom Kim successful a playoff. And, with the deficiency of a tourney successful the tri-state area, fans from galore states flock to TPC River Highlands successful Cromwell, Connecticut. for the experience.

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A wide presumption of the Travelers Championship Tee connected the 3rd spread during the 3rd circular of the Travelers Championship play tourney astatine TPC River Highlands.  (Gregory Fisher-USA Today Sports)

But immoderate stars, of course, are missing.

Some of the sport's biggest names (Jon Rahm, Bryson DeChambeau, Brooks Koepka) are, of course, ineligible for the Travelers, being a portion of LIV Golf.

But, arsenic LIV and the PGA proceed to enactment connected their woody (two years successful the making), the Travelers would invited those who defected backmost with unfastened arms, if and erstwhile it happens.

"I’ve been doing this for 20 years, I cognize the guys. These are idiosyncratic to us," Travelers Championship manager Nathan Grube said successful an interrogation with Fox News Digital. We saw each the LIV guys astatine Augusta, and we emotion those guys. It’s idiosyncratic for us. I person nary power implicit erstwhile the guys volition beryllium back, but we’re making definite that erstwhile that does happen, we cognize they’re going to privation to travel present and play. I person nary thought what’s going to happen, but we emotion the guys, we put successful them, we get to cognize them. I privation them the best, and I’d emotion to spot them here."

A wide presumption of the 18th greenish during the last circular of the Travelers Championship play tournament.  (Vincent Carchietta-USA Today Sports)

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Since the Northern Trust nary longer exists, though, galore successful New Jersey and New York don't person a much section option, and Grube and his squad person jumped astatine the accidental to marque their tournament's attendance 1 of the champion connected circuit (while inactive claiming New England arsenic their people audience).

"We've done media events with antithetic groups of people. We spell down there, we person sponsors. I person committee members successful the tri-state area. We bash media buys, players person helped us. We are New England's event, right? And we clasp that, we effort to beryllium alert of that, and we effort to marque definite families recognize that you tin walk your time with us. And we're starting to propulsion much and much and much from the full New England region. I emotion that. This is thing that New England should beryllium arrogant of."

The pin successful the archetypal spread during the 2nd circular of the Travelers Championship play tourney astatine TCP River Highlands.  (Gregory Fisher-USA Today Sports)

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Scheffler tin concur.

"It's a week successful which the players, our families and our caddies get treated arsenic bully arsenic we spell each year. If you inquire immoderate caddie connected circuit what their favourite lawsuit is, I deliberation they'd accidental the Travelers Championship," Schefflersaid astatine the tournament's media time this week.

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