Casey, Day commit to TPC River Highlands

20th-ranked PGA Tour golfer, former world No. 1 player to compete

Paul Casey, the 20th-ranked PGA Tour golfer in the world, and former world No. 1 Jason Day have committed to the 2021 Travelers Championship, the tournament announced Wednesday.

“Paul and Jason have both played well at our tournament over the years, and I wouldn’t be surprised to see them near the top of the leaderboard again this year,” Travelers Championship tournament director Nathan Grube said in a statement.

Casey, 43, will make his seventh start at TPC River Highlands this summer. The Englishman has come close to a victory in Cromwell before: Casey lost to Bubba Watson in a playoff in 2015, tied for second in 2018 and tied for fifth in 2017.

Day, a former PGA Championship winner, is making his seventh start at the Travelers Championship. His best finish was tied for eighth in 2019. The 33-year-old has won 12 times on the PGATour and is currently ranked 59th in the world.

Casey and Day are the eighth and ninth players to commit, joining Watson, Dustin Johnson, Bryson DeChambeau, Brooks Koepka, Patrick Reed, Justin Rose and Marc Leishman.

The tournament, which runs

June 23-27, announced last Friday that tickets will go on sale May 25, and it expects to allow nearly 10,000 fans per day.

“There’s stuff we’re going to be able to do that we’ve never done before,” Grube said. “These courtyards that we’re building, we’ve never had the space to do it before. Fans are going to see the course in a totally different way than they have before. I’m excited about that. We’re a theater, we’re a stage, and people are going to see things in a different way.”