The Travelers Championship is one of the most beloved stops on the PGA Tour, a Connecticut tradition played each June at TPC River Highlands in Cromwell, the week after the U.S. Open. Known for its electric atmosphere, charitable impact, and dramatic finishes on a course where legends are made down the closing stretch, it consistently draws one of the strongest fields and largest crowds in golf.
The tournament’s roll of champions reads like a who’s who of the modern game. The most recent winner is Keegan Bradley, who captured the 2025 title with a clutch closing birdie, his second Travelers victory after also winning in 2023. Recent years have crowned stars like Scottie Scheffler, Xander Schauffele, and Harris English, while the event’s all-time wins record belongs to the legendary Billy Casper with four titles.
The chart below lists every Travelers Championship winner since the title sponsorship began in 2007, plus the players with the most wins and the tournament’s most memorable records. Take a look, then we’ll get into the highlights.
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The most recent champions
Keegan Bradley enters the record books as the most recent Travelers champion, winning the 2025 tournament with a clutch six-foot birdie putt on the final hole to finish at 15 under. It was Bradley’s second title at TPC River Highlands, having also won in dominant fashion in 2023 at 23 under par. His back-to-the-winner’s-circle performance cemented his status as one of the event’s modern stalwarts and added his name to the short list of multiple Travelers winners.
The years just before Bradley’s wins featured some of golf’s biggest names. World number one Scottie Scheffler captured the 2024 title in a playoff over Tom Kim, part of a historic season. Before him, Xander Schauffele won in 2022, Harris English outlasted Kramer Hickok in a marathon eight-hole playoff in 2021, and Dustin Johnson took the pandemic-era 2020 edition. The quality of recent champions reflects how the Travelers has grown into one of the most coveted titles outside the majors.
The all-time wins leader
While recent stars have shone, the record for the most Travelers Championship victories belongs to a legend of an earlier era: Billy Casper, who won four times in 1963, 1965, 1968, and 1973, back when the event was known as the Insurance City Open and later the Greater Hartford Open. Casper, a Hall of Famer and one of the finest golfers of his generation, made the Hartford-area tournament a personal stronghold across three different decades.
In the modern era, the player most associated with the event is Bubba Watson, who claimed three titles in 2010, 2015, and 2018, making him the winningest player of the Travelers-sponsored era. A number of golfers have won twice, including Keegan Bradley, Phil Mickelson, Stewart Cink, Peter Jacobsen, Paul Azinger, and the great Arnold Palmer, whose first U.S. PGA Tour victory came at this very event in 1956.
A tournament with many names
One reason the Travelers Championship has such a deep history is that it has existed since 1952, cycling through several names along the way. It began as the Insurance City Open, fitting for an event held in Hartford, the self-styled insurance capital of the world. In 1967 it became the Greater Hartford Open, a title it carried for decades under various sponsors, including a long stretch associated with entertainer Sammy Davis Jr. and camera maker Canon.
After a brief run as the Buick Championship from 2003 to 2006, the tournament faced an uncertain future when Buick declined to renew. Travelers Insurance stepped in to sponsor the event beginning in 2007, securing its place on the schedule and ushering in its current era of prominence. Throughout all the name changes, the tournament has remained a fixture of Connecticut sports and, since 1984, a permanent resident of TPC River Highlands.
Legendary finishes at River Highlands
TPC River Highlands has produced some of the most memorable moments in PGA Tour history, thanks to a dramatic closing stretch perfectly designed for late charges and collapses. The most famous may be Jim Furyk’s 58 in the final round of 2016, the first sub-59 score in PGA Tour history and still one of the lowest rounds ever recorded. The following year, Jordan Spieth provided an iconic image by holing a greenside bunker shot on the first playoff hole to win, sprinting and chest-bumping his caddie in celebration.
The drama has continued throughout. Harris English won the 2021 title on the eighth hole of a sudden-death playoff, one of the longest in Tour history, while Kevin Streelman famously birdied his final seven holes to steal the 2014 trophy. More recently, in 2024, Cameron Young shot a 59, making the Travelers the first PGA Tour event ever to feature multiple sub-60 rounds. These finishes are why players and fans alike rank the Travelers among the Tour’s most exciting weeks.
Final Word
The Travelers Championship has crowned champions since 1952, evolving from the Insurance City Open into one of the PGA Tour’s premier non-major events. Keegan Bradley is the most recent winner, taking the 2025 title for his second Travelers crown, while Billy Casper’s four victories remain the all-time standard and Bubba Watson leads the modern era with three. From Furyk’s 58 to Spieth’s walk-off bunker shot, the event’s history at TPC River Highlands is packed with unforgettable moments.
With a $20 million purse and one of the strongest fields outside the majors, the Travelers continues to grow in stature each June. The next champion will join a storied list stretching back more than seven decades. For more golf history, see our full list of US Open golf winners by year.