Star field gracing Travellers

SOME of the biggest names in golf are giving up what is normally a week off after a major championship to play on the PGA Tour’s latest event.

Beaudesert’s Jason Day and American stars Jordan Spieth and Bubba Watson are among those in Connecticut this week, giving the Travellers Championship an unusually strong field.

For world No.4 Day, it’s a great opportunity to put last week’s missed cut at Erin Hills behind him.

“I have a pretty good record here,” Day said.

The tournament has become known as the event where in addition to the more than $1 million in prize money, the champion gets a large supply of M&Ms with his face printed on them.

Russell Knox, who won last year, said that may be the coolest thing of all.

He hands out the boxes of chocolates to his friends and sometimes his rivals.

“David Lingmerth’s wife was recently over to the house, and I sent her home with some, just to make sure he had some M&M candies with my face on them,” Knox said.