Keegan Bradley wins Travelers Championship for 6th PGA Tour title

When Keegan Bradley first got here out on the PGA Tour, his thoughts didn’t instantly bounce to enjoying in golf’s greatest tournaments just like the majors or Gamers Championship.

He thought of attending to play within the Travelers Championship, the closest factor the Woodstock, Vermont native needed to a hometown PGA Tour occasion.

In fact, Bradley bought his first main out of the way in which early on the 2011 PGA Championship. That left the Tour’s solely common cease in New England because the one Bradley actually wished.

Sunday, he bought it completed.

Starting the day with a one-shot lead, Bradley birdied three of the primary six holes to drag away from and open up a six-shot lead. Regardless of an up-and-down again 9, Bradley recovered and closed out the Vacationers Championship by three pictures at 23 below.

It’s Bradley’s sixth profession PGA Tour title and second already this season after he was victorious on the Zozo Championship in Japan final October. The one different time Bradley gained twice in a season was his rookie 12 months when he captured the PGA and HP Byron Nelson Championship.

Rising up about two and a half hours north of TPC River Highlands, Bradley mentioned Saturday night time this was the place the place he bought his first style of what the PGA Tour was like when he was simply 10 years outdated.

Years in a while the identical observe, Bradley was almost flawless by 66 holes as he had made only one bogey all week. Nonetheless, his assured play was derailed after knocking his tee shot into the water on the par-5 thirteenth. He made two consecutive bogeys, didn’t birdie the quick par-4 fifteenth from proper in entrance of the inexperienced after which made a 3rd bogey on the sixteenth.

Nonetheless, as Bradley stood over his tee shot on 17, his closest pursuer, Patrick Cantlaymissed a six-foot birdie putt that might have reduce the result in simply two. Bradley heard the group react, backed off, reset after which stripped a fairway wooden into the guts of the green, ignoring the water proper.

His straightforward par on 17 all however slammed the door as he took a three-shot result in the 72nd. He bought to relish because the New England followers gave their native son a standing ovation.

The win just about ensures Bradley a return journey to East Lake for the Tour Championship for the primary time since 2018 when he gained a FedEx Cup Playoff occasion. It additionally locations him firmly within the combine for a return to the U.S. Ryder Cup team since 2014.

Jack Hirsh

Golf.com Editor

Jack Hirsh is an assistant editor at GOLF. A Pennsylvania native, Jack is a 2020 graduate of Penn State College, incomes levels in broadcast journalism and political science. He was captain of his highschool golf crew and nonetheless *tries* to stay aggressive in native amateurs. Earlier than becoming a member of GOLF, Jack spent two years working at a TV station in Bend, Oregon, primarily as Multimedia Journalist/reporter, but in addition producing, anchoring and even presenting the climate. He may be reached at jack.hirsh@golf.com.