Travelers Championship – Second-Round Notes – Friday, June 20, 2025

Weather: Mostly sunny. High of 83. Wind W 10-18 mph, gusting to 26 mph.

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Tommy Fleetwood (T1/-9)

• Only player with multiple eagles through 36 holes (Nos. 13 and 15/R2); marks his seventh career stroke-play round on TOUR with multiple eagles (most recent: 2023 U.S. Open/R4)
• Cumulative 6-under on holes 13 and 15 combined through 36 holes
• Eight-time DP World Tour winner is in search of his first PGA TOUR victory in his 159^th start; owns five runner-up finishes (most recent: 2023 RBC Canadian Open where he lost a playoff to Nick Taylor)
• Fifth time holding the 36-hole lead/co-lead on TOUR (most recent: 2019 PLAYERS Championship/T5)
• Makes fifth appearance at Travelers Championship (T13/2019, T46/2022, MC/2023, 15^th/2024); 15 of 16 rounds of par-or-better at TPC River Highlands (71/R4/2022)
• Three of his four top-10s this season have come in Signature Events (T5/The Genesis Invitational, 7^th/RBC Heritage, T4/Truist Championship); other: T4/Charles Schwab Challenge

Justin Thomas (T1/-9)

• Cards five consecutive birdies (Nos. 11-15) en route to 64, his ninth consecutive round in the 60s at TPC River Highlands
• 15th career 36-hole lead/co-lead on TOUR and second this season (RBC Heritage/Won); 7-for-14 to date
• 4-under 31 ties his lowest back-nine score at this event (fifth time)
• 34-under in his last nine rounds at Travelers Championship
• A top-10 result would mark his third consecutive at this event and fourth overall (T3/2016, T9/2023, T5/2024)
• Entered this week No. 4 in the FedExCup standings after one win (RBC Heritage) and three runner-up results this season (2^nd/American Express, 2^nd/Valspar Championship, T2/Truist Championship)
• Seeks 17^th PGA TOUR title in his 255^th start; looks to become the sixth multiple winner this season (Scottie Scheffler/3, Rory McIlroy/3, Ryan Fox/2, Ben Griffin/2, Sepp Straka/2) 

Scottie Scheffler (T1/-9)

• 18th career 36-hole lead/co-lead on TOUR and third this season (Texas Children’s Houston Open/T2, THE CJ CUP Byron Nelson/Won); 7-for-17 to date
• World No. 1 makes double bogey on No. 17 en route to 1-under 69; fifth double bogey (or worse) in 360 holes at TPC River Highlands and first in 100 holes at this event (No. 7/R4/2023)
• Owns two top-10 finishes in five career starts in the Travelers Championship (T4/2023, Won/2024)
• Seeks to become the first player since Phil Mickelson (2001-2002) to win consecutive Travelers Championship titles
• One of two players to win the Travelers Championship and the FedExCup in the same season (Dustin Johnson/2020)
• 16-time PGA TOUR winner in search of fourth victory of the season (THE CJ CUP Byron Nelson, PGA Championship, the Memorial Tournament presented by Workday)
• Ranks T54 on the all-time wins list, tied with five others (Jack Burke, Jr., Ralph Guldahl, Mark O’Meara, Justin Thomas, Tom Weiskopf)

Justin Thomas/Scottie Scheffler third-round pairing

• Last time the pair were grouped together: rounds one and two at the Masters Tournament earlier this year
• Duo played together in the fourth-to-last pairing in the final round of the 2023 Travelers Championship (Scheffler/65, Thomas/67)
• 11^th round they have been grouped together on the PGA TOUR (stroke-play events only)

Additional notes:

• 13-time PGA TOUR winner Jason Day’s (4^th/-8) best result in 10 appearances at Travelers Championship is T8/2019; best finish in 11 starts this season: T3/American Express
• Denny McCarthy’s (T5/-7) 6-under 64 ties Justin Thomas for low round of the day and marks his second-lowest round in 23 rounds at this event (60/R1/2023); seeks first win in his 205^th start on the PGA TOUR; owns two runner-up finishes on TOUR with playoff losses at the 2023 Memorial Tournament presented by Workday (Viktor Hovland) and the 2024 Valero Texas Open (Akshay Bhatia); best finish in seven appearances at Travelers Championship: T7/2023
• First-round co-leader Austin Eckroat (T5/-7) makes his fourth start at the Travelers Championship (T47/2021, T24/2023, T27/2024); made his PGA TOUR debut at the 2021 Travelers Championship on a sponsor exemption
• World No. 2 Rory McIlroy (T9/-5) was 3-over through four holes en route to carding a 1-over 71; has finished in the top-20 in five previous starts at the Travelers Championship (best: T7/2023)
• 70.686 scoring average marks the highest single-round scoring average at Travelers Championship since 2017 (70.824/R2)
• Si Woo Kim withdrew during the second round with a back injury