PGA DFS & Fantasy Golf Preview for the Travelers Championship 2022

The tour of New England continues as the PGA Tour resumes action this week just outside Hartford, Conn., for the 2022 Travelers Championship. Because of such close proximity to last week’s U.S. Open — just about two hours away — the field this week is exceptionally strong. It does boast one of the best PGA Tour events of the year as voted by both the players and the fans. It has been held here at TPC River Highlands for quite some time, providing plenty of data points this week. In this article, we’ll cover some of those course specifics, the players and preview what it takes to play well here in the dense forests of New England. As always, we’ll start our week off with a preview and get our golf DFS advice teed up, with preparations to make the best PGA DFS picks later this week for our DraftKings and FanDuel golf lineups.

PGA DFS Preview | The Travelers Championship 2022

Course Facts and Figures

Par 70, 6,950 yards

Hole Dispersion

  • Four Par 3’s: 223, 202, 158, 171
  • 12 Par 4’s: 434, 341, 431, 481, 443, 406, 462, 511, 421, 296, 420, 444
  • Two Par 5’s: 574, 523

Grass Types

  • Grass Type: Bent/Poa
  • Average Green Size: 5,000 sq. feet.
  • Water Hazards: 4
  • Bunkers: 69

Statistical Averages for TPC River Highlands 

  • Driving Accuracy: 69.8%
  • Average Driving Distance: 283.4
  • Greens In Regulation: 70.3%
  • Most Frequent Range of Approach Shots: 150-175

Designer

Peter Dye — redesign


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There are a couple of spots in the golf course with a run of easy holes, which creates plenty of opportunities for birdies and birdie streaks. Overall, the scores here have gotten lower over the last few years as golfers have taken a more aggressive approach on some of the longer par 4’s. One of the best parts of the course is the last three holes — all very difficult — and plenty of bogeys and doubles will be made.

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  • Number of golfers ranked inside the top 10 of the OWGR: 6
  • Number of golfers ranked inside the top 50 of the OWGR: 25
  • Strength of the field for a non-major (lower numbers represent a stronger field): No. 5

Course History at TPC River Highlands

This is a fantastic technical track that is hard to overpower, even with it measuring under 7,000 yards, and it has created some variance in terms of results. Even those that performed consistently on it have missed cuts as well, including Keegan Brandley and Brian Harman. Harman has four top-10s to Bradley’s two since 2015, but each of them have at least two missed cuts since then as well. Of all top-10 golfers this week, only Jordan Spieth has a win, and only Justin Thomas and Joaquin Niemann have top-fives. Brooks Koepka has some of the best results here, making the cut in all five appearances and coming in the top 10 twice. Harris English, the defending champion of the event, had a string of three missed cuts prior to it but did have a top-10 finish all the way back in 2104.

Then there’s Marc Leishman, who has only missed the cut once since his win in 2012 and has four top-21s in the last six years. Webb Simpson, who is still battling an injury and missed the cut on the number last week, hasn’t played here since missing the cut in 2018. However, he did have two top-10s in his three previous starts here. Mackenzie Hughes, who is coming off a decent performance last week, hasn’t missed the cut here in any of his five trips, coming in the top 20 twice and top five once. Jason Day has had similar results here over the last four years, making the cut in all of them and coming in the top 12 three times. Brendan Steele is also among the golfers with variable results, or boom or bust, one could say, as he has seven top-21s in the event over the last 10 years but also has three missed cuts. Kevin Streelman has had similar success winning back in 2014 and has three missed cuts and three top-15s over the last six years.

A few other names of note that have at least one top-10 in the last five appearances here are Chez Reavie, Patrick Rodgers, Danny Lee, Hank Lebioda, Kevin Tway (twice) and Brice Garnett. 

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One noticeable thing about last year’s leaderboard is that only Koepka and Sepp Straka gained over four strokes on their approaches for the week. In fact, he’s the only one over 2.5 strokes. Typically, strokes gained on the approach are the most important statistic week in and week out, but with greens being easy to hit and on the smaller side, there just isn’t a ton of room to gain strokes on the approach against the field this week. English gained strokes through the board last year en route to his victory. He didn’t gain over four strokes in any category.

  • Strokes Gained Off the Tee: 0.54
  • Strokes Gained on Approach: 0.18
  • Strokes Gained Around the Green: 0.31
  • Strokes Gained Putting: 1.32
  • DFS Points: 97.125
  • Average DFS Salary: $7,700
  • Ownership: 7.94%

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