Four More Big Names Join 2020 Travelers Field

Defending champ Chez Reavie, 2017 titlist Jordan Spieth, and 2012 champ
Marc Leishman all committed to play this year's Travelers Championship
on Wednesday..

CROMWELL—Three big names, Chez Reavie, Jordan Spieth and Marc Leishman—all formerTravelers champions—were added to the 2020 field on Wednesday. Reavie is the tournament's defending champion.

Chez Reavie had a record-setting week at TPC River Highlands in 2019. He built a tournament-record six-shot lead through three rounds and ended up winning by four shots for his second PGA TOUR victory. In the third round, Reavie matched the tournament record by shooting a 7-under-par 28 on the back nine. It was Reavie’s first TOUR victory since the 2008 RBC Canadian Open and capped his best season on TOUR, with six top-10 finishes. This will be Reavie’s 10th appearance at the Travelers Championship.

Jordan Spieth won the 2017 Travelers Championship in dramatic fashion, holing out from a bunker on the first playoff hole to beat Daniel Berger. Spieth is an 11-time winner on the PGA TOUR, including three major championships: He won the Masters and the U.S. Open in 2015 and the Open Championship in 2017. Spieth has spent 26 weeks as the world’s top-ranked player, was the PGA TOUR Player of the Year in 2015, has played in three Ryder Cups and three Presidents Cups, and will be making his fourth straight appearance at TPC River Highlands.

Marc Leishman overcame a six-shot deficit in the final round of the 2012 Travelers Championship, shooting a 62 for his first PGA TOUR victory. Four more TOUR victories have followed: the 2017 Arnold Palmer Invitational and the 2017 BMW Championship, the 2019 CIMB Classic, and earlier this year when he won the Farmers Insurance Open. Leishman has played in the past four Presidents Cups as a member of the International Team and is No. 15 in the Official World Golf Ranking. He will be making his 10th start at the Travelers Championship.

“Tournament champions become part of the Travelers Championship family, and we’re always happy to see them return,” said Travelers Championship Tournament Director Nathan Grube. “Chez, Jordan and Marc all have great memories from their winning weeks at TPC River Highlands, so I know they’re looking forward to coming back. And we’re looking forward to having them here.”

“We’re so proud of our previous winners, and Chez, Jordan and Marc have all been wonderful champions,” added Andy Bessette, Executive Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer at Travelers. “I am looking forward to see who will win this year’s Travelers Championship and join them in that distinguished club.”

And today, two-time Travelers champion Phil Mickelson announced he would be coming back to Cromwell in 2020. Mickelson, an all-time crowd favorite and a five-time major champion whose 44 career PGA TOUR victories include back-to-back wins at TPC River Highlands.

The legendary Phil Mickelson joined the field today. 'Lefty'
is the only player in Travelers history to win back-to-back
titles in Connecticut.

Elected to the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2012, Mickelson has made 12 appearances on both the U.S. Ryder Cup and Presidents Cup teams, the most by an American player in either competition. He was a four-time, first-team All-American in college, and in 1990 became the only left-handed player to win the U.S. Amateur.

“With the top seven players in the Official World Golf Ranking and eight of the top 10, it already feels like the best player field we’ve ever had, and now we’re adding to it with Phil Mickelson,” said Andy Bessette, Executive Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer at Travelers. “This is great news for the Travelers Championship. We appreciate that he has fit Travelers into his schedule, and I know that millions of Phil’s fans will be rooting for him while watching from home.”

The 2020 Travelers Championship will be held June 25-28 at TPC River Highlands in Cromwell. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the PGA TOUR has announced that the tournament will be a TV-only event, with no spectators permitted on-site. For more information, visit www.TravelersChampionship.com.

Mickelson, who turned 50 on Tuesday, is ninth on the PGA TOUR’s career wins list. His first victory came at the Northern Telecom Open in 1991, when Mickelson was still a student at Arizona State University; he remains the last amateur to win a PGA TOUR event. His most recent TOUR title came in 2019 at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. In between those wins have been five major championships. Mickelson has won the Masters three times (2004, 2006, 2010), the PGA Championship in 2005, and the Open Championship in 2013. He made his mark in Connecticut when he became the only back-to-back winner in Travelers Championship history in 2001 and 2002.

—Staff Reports

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