Harris English wins PGA Tour No. 4 (Photo – PGA Tour)

Final Leaderboard

*Harris English                  67-68-67-65—267 (-13)

Kramer Hickok                   63-69-68-67—267 (-13)

Marc Leishman                  69-66-69-64—268 (-12)

Abraham Ancer                  72-66-66-65—269 (-11)

*won with a birdie on the eighth hole of sudden death

Things to Know

• Harris English sinks 27’8” birdie putt on the 72^nd hole to claim outright lead and victory with birdie on the eighth extra hole
• Eight extra holes is T2 for most in PGA TOUR history (11/1949 Motor City Open)
• English claims second PGA TOUR title of the season, with both having been decided by playoffs
• Seeking his first career PGA TOUR title, Kramer Hickok birdies 72^nd hole to force sudden death with Harris English; settles for career-best finish of second
• 2012 Travelers Championship winner Marc Leishman posts bogey-free 6-under 64 to finish third
• In bid to join Billy Casper as a four-time Travelers Championship winner, Bubba Watson plays last five holes in 6-over par
• Dustin Johnson finishes T25 in effort to join Phil Mickelson as players to successfully defend Travelers Championship title

Harris English (1^st/-13)

• Beginning the final round two strokes off the lead at 8-under 202, sank a 27’8” birdie on the 72^nd hole to post 5-under 65 and take the clubhouse lead at 13-under 267; after matching pars with Kramer Hickok on the first seven extra holes, made birdie on the eighth hole of sudden death (No. 18) for the win
• Claims his fourth career PGA TOUR title in his 264^th start at the age of 31 years, 11 months, 4 days
• Win comes in his eighth Travelers Championship start and marks his second top-10 finish (T7/2014)
• Win comes in the eighth playoff of the 2020-21 season and marks the longest on TOUR since the 2012 Mayakoba Golf Classic presented by UNIFIN (John Huh over Robert Allenby); longest playoff in PGA TOUR history was 11 holes at the 1949 Motor City Open (Lloyd Mangrum and Cary Middlecoff declared mutual winners due to darkness)
• Marks the 24^th playoff in Travelers Championship history and first since Jordan Spieth defeated Daniel Berger after one extra hole in 2017
• With the win, moves to No. 2 in the FedExCup for the third time this season
• Projected to move inside the top 12 in the Official World Golf Ranking (from 19^th)
• Having most recently won the 2021 Sentry Tournament of Champions, also via a playoff, becomes the fifth multiple winner this season (Bryson DeChambeau, Patrick Cantlay, Jason Kokrak and Stewart Cink)
• Win marks his seventh top-10 finish of the season (21 starts), comes a week after finishing third in last week’s U.S. Open

 Kramer Hickok (2^nd/-13)

• Beginning the final round tied for the lead at 10-under with Bubba Watson, birdied the 72^nd hole from 8’10” to shoot 3-under 67 and force sudden death with Harris English
• Was seeking his first career PGA TOUR title in his 68^th start
• With his career-best finish, moves from No. 139 to 69^th in the FedExCup
• Runner-up finish supplants previous-best showing of T8 from the 2020 Bermuda Championship
• Runner-up finish comes in his second Travelers Championship start (2019/T60)
• Was looking to join Mackenzie Hughes (2016), Adam Hadwin (2017) and Aaron Wise (2018) as players to win on Mackenzie Tour-PGA TOUR Canada, Korn Ferry Tour and PGA TOUR

 Additional Notes

• 2012 Travelers Championship winner Marc Leishman (3^rd/-12) sank 123’6” of putts en route to a bogey-free 6-under 64 in his 11^th tournament start, and 10^th consecutive since his 2012 victory
• Abraham Ancer (4^th/-11) closed with a 5-under 65, his lowest score of the week to collect his second top-10 finish in five starts at the Travelers Championship (T8/2019)
• On his way to a bogey-free 7-under 63, Kevin Kisner (T5/-10) made six birdies in a seven-hole stretch, including five straight on Nos. 11-15; his round-by-round performance on Nos. 11-15 this week: R1/E, R2/-5, R3/+4, R4/-5; marks the first occasion to post multiple scores of 63 in a TOUR event (rounds two and four); only player to post multiple bogey-free rounds (R1, R4)
• Following a bogey at No. 1 for the third time this week, Brooks Koepka (T5/-10) made six birdies to close his fifth Travelers Championship with a 5-under 65
• Jason Day (T10/-9) closed with an even-par 70 in search of his 13^th career TOUR victory and first since 2018 Wells Fargo Championship; claims his third top-10 finish of the season (T7/Vivint Houston Open, T7/AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am);  marks his second top-10 finish in seven Travelers Championship starts (2019/T8)
• A week after finishing T4 at the U.S. Open in his first-ever PGA TOUR start, Italy’s Guido Migliozzi (T13/-8) closed with a bogey-free 3-under 67
• Jim Herman (T25/-6) used an 8-iron to ace the par-3 16^th from 154 yards, his third career hole-in-one and first since round two of the 2015 Mayakoba Golf Classic presented by UNIFIN
• Defending champion Dustin Johnson closed with a 1-over 71 to finish T25 at 6-under 274
• 2001-02 Travelers Championship winner Phil Mickelson finished T61 at 1-under 279

 Course Statistics

Toughest Hole                                 Easiest Hole

R1: Par-4 4^th (4.231)                         Par-4 15^th (3.718)

R2: Par-4 4^th (4.237)                         Par-5 6^th (4.641)

R3: Par-4 10^th (4.203)                       Par-5 6^th (4.759)

R4: Par-4 12^th/Par-4 17^th (4.177)      Par-5 6^th (4.722)

Week: Par-4 4^th (4.196)                    Par-5 6^th (4.728)

Scoring Averages

              Front 9                 Back 9                  Total                    Cumulative

R1:         35.199                  34.891                  70.090                  —

R2:         34.776                  34.173                  68.949                  69.519

R3:         34.835                  35.228                  70.063                  69.629

R4:         34.722                  35.165                  69.886                  69.742

Bogey-Free Scores

R1 (6): Talor Gooch (64), Maverick McNealy (65), Henrik Norlander (65), Kevin Stadler (66), Ben An (68), Kevin Kisner (70)

R2 (12): Jason Day (62), Charley Hoffman (63), Ryan Armour (64), Robby Shelton (64), Troy Merritt (65), Ryan Moore (65), Austin Eckroat (66), Russell Henley (66), Austin Cook (67), Tom Lewis (67), Harris English (68), Brendon Todd (69)

R3 (1): Adam Scott (67)

R4 (4): Kevin Kisner (63), Beau Hossler (64), Marc Leishman (64), Guido Migliozzi (67)