PGA Tour picks: Travelers Championship best bets, long shots, predictions

There are plenty of reasons to be dubious of the FedEx Cup Standings and how the PGA Tour has formatted its schedule, but this year’s table does paint a pretty solid picture of how the 2026 campaign has shaken out.Scottie Scheffler remains in his usual perch, but the gap between him and the chasing pack is as close as it has been in recent years.Scheffler’s results are still elite, but he has set such a high standard that one win, which came in his first start of the season, in 13 outings seems like a disappointment, even if he also has three runners-up and eight top-5 finishes to boot.Fresh off a T4 at the U.S.Open, Scheffler is the +440 favorite to win the Travelers Championship, the final “Signature Event” of the season.Xander Schauffele (18/1), Tommy Fleetwood (18/1), Ludvig Aberg (20/1), and Sam Burns (22/1) round out the top five on the oddsboard at FanDuel Sportsbook.

Wyndham Clark, who is still in the field after winning the U.S.Open at Shinnecock, is 33/1.Played at TPC River Highlands in Cromwell, Conn., the Travelers normally produces a winner around 20-under par, and that player usually fits a certain stereotype.

Namely, somebody who can bomb the ball off the tee and turn one of the shortest courses on the circuit into a glorified pitch-and-putt.Keegan Bradley has two wins in the last three years in Cromwell, with Scheffler taking the prize in 2024 and Schauffele lifting the trophy in 2022.All three of those guys can rip it with their 1-wood.He missed the cut at the U.S.Open, but don’t let that scare you off Patrick Cantlay at this price on this course.Although he’s never won at TPC River Highlands, his average finishing position is 11th in eight trips, and he’s never finished worse than 15th.

Cantlay finished 12th here last year, was fifth the year before, and then fourth in 2023.It’s been four years since he won a PGA Tour event, but Cantlay has been trending in the right direction for the last three months.

He’s finished 17th or ...