TPC River Highlands

TPC River Highlands sits on a piece of Cromwell, Connecticut Connecticut River bluff land that was originally Edgewood Country Club, founded in 1928. The PGA Tour acquired the property in the late 1980s and redesigned the routing with Bobby Weed and Pete Dye consulting on the modifications. The Travelers Championship has been played at TPC River Highlands every June since 1985 (the year before the formal Tour acquisition), making the host relationship one of the longest continuous PGA Tour venues in the modern era — only Bay Hill (API), Pebble Beach (AT&T), and a handful of others compete on consecutive-years measure.

The course plays around 6,841 yards par 70 from the championship markers, with bent fairways and a slope in the upper 130s. The yardage is short by modern Tour standards, but the Connecticut River setting and the routing's natural elevation changes — the property drops 130 feet from the highest point to the river — give the course defense modern equipment doesn't entirely overcome. The fifteenth hole is a 296-yard par-4 that plays drivable for most of the field; the sixteenth, a 171-yard par-3 across a lake to an island green, is the routing's most-televised hole and has produced multiple Tour aces. The eighteenth closes with a 444-yard par-4 that has decided multiple Travelers editions in playoff format.

TPC River Highlands is open to public daily-fee play at premium rates with PGA Tour-affiliated discounts for members of the TPC network. The Travelers Championship week (June) keeps the course in continuous tournament-readiness. Caddies are available; the routing is walkable but most resort rounds use carts.

Connecticut climate gives TPC River Highlands a playing season of April through November, with the firmest conditions in June and September. New England summers stay cooler than the mid-Atlantic Tour stops, which has historically given the Travelers Championship the cleanest weather of any June Tour event. The course closes through brief winter cold snaps. The Connecticut River corridor gives the property reliable groundwater that keeps the fairways green through the summer.