Canon Greater Hartford Open
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| Location | Cromwell, Connecticut, U.S. |
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| Established | 1952, 65 years ago |
| Course(s) | TPC at River Highlands |
| Par | 70 |
| Length | 6,844 yards (6,258 m) |
| Tour(s) | PGA Tour |
| Format | Stroke play |
| Prize fund | $6.6 million |
| Month played | June (August in 2016) |
| Aggregate | 258 Kenny Perry (2009) |
| To par | −25 Tim Norris (1982) |
 Russell Knox
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The Travelers Championship is a professional golf tournament on the PGA Tour in Cromwell, Connecticut, a suburb south of Hartford. It is managed by The Greater Hartford Community Foundation.
It was announced that the tournament will be played the first week of August for the 2016 season due to the Summer Olympics.
The tournament was founded 65 years ago in 1952 as the Insurance City Open; It was renamed the Greater Hartford Open in 1967, a title that was retained through 2003. From 1973 through 1988, the GHO also bore the name of entertainer Sammy Davis, Jr., who would often play in the pro-ams. Canon was a title sponsor from 1985 to 2002, and their employees would often take vacation time during tournament week to volunteer at the event. Buick was title sponsor from 2004 to 2006 and The Travelers Companies took over sponsorship in 2007.
For the tournament's first three decades, it was played at Wethersfield Country Club, about five miles (8 km) north. In 1984, after the PGA Tour bought and redesigned Edgewood Country Club, the event moved to the new TPC of Connecticut in Cromwell. In 1991, the course was substantially redesigned with a completely new front nine holes and renamed the TPC at River Highlands. This TPC property was the third PGA Tour owned/managed championship golf course in what would grow to a network of over 30 TPC Clubs (2010).
The purse for the 2006 tournament, under Buick's sponsorship, was $4.4 million, with $792,000 going to the winner. From 2007 to 2010, the purse under Travelers' sponsorship was $6 million, with $1,080,000 going to the champion.
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