For the second consecutive year, Chase Seiffert qualified for the Travelers Championship one week after his former Florida State teammate won the U.S. Open. Seiffert and Koepka will be reunited once again at TPC River Highlands after Seiffert shot 63 on Monday at Ellington Ridge Country Club in Ellington, Connecticut. Seiffert contended at last year’s Travelers Championship before fading on the weekend. It was one of three events that he qualified for in 2016-17. James Driscoll, Andrew Svoboda and Rick Lamb shot 66 to also qualify. Two of this season’s most successful qualifiers narrowly missed earning another TOUR start. Scott Strohmeyer, whose fourth-place finish at the Sanderson Farms Championship is the best this season by a Monday qualifier, shot 67. T.J. Vogel fired 68 to miss the mark by two shots. He has qualified for six events this season. Here’s a closer look at the players who earned spots in the Travelers Championship on Monday. CHASE SEIFFERT (63) Age: 26 Hometown: Panama City Beach, Florida Alma mater: Florida State PGA TOUR starts: 4 Cuts made: 3 Best TOUR finish: T43, 2017 Travelers Championship Notes: Seiffert made the cut in all three tournaments he qualified for last season. He was in fourth place, just two shots off the lead, halfway through last year’s Travelers Championship before shooting 3 over on the weekend. He has played just one PGA TOUR-sanctioned event in 2018, finishing T48 in the Web.com Tour’s Rex Hospital Open. Seiffert shot 64 to qualify for that event. JAMES DRISCOLL (66) Age: 40 Hometown: Jupiter, Florida Alma mater: Virginia PGA TOUR starts: 240 Cuts made: 118 Best TOUR finish: 2nd, 2009 Valero Texas Open and 2005 Zurich Classic of New Orleans Notes: Driscoll, a Masachusetts native, is making his PGA TOUR return close to home. It will be his first TOUR start since the 2016 OHL Classic at Mayakoba. He won on the Web.com Tour in 2016 but has played just one event on that circuit in 2018. Both his runners-up on the PGA TOUR were playoff losses. He lost a playoff to Zach Johnson in San Antonio and Tim Petrovic in New Orleans. Driscoll also was runner-up in the 2000 U.S. Amateur, losing to Jeff Quinney on the 39th hole of the 36-hole final. ANDREW SVOBODA (66) Age: 38 Hometown: Roslyn Harbor, New York Alma mater: St. John’s PGA TOUR starts: 76 Cuts made: 31 Best TOUR finish: T2, 2014 Zurich Classic of New Orleans Notes: The three-time Web.com Tour winner is playing his first PGA TOUR event since 2015. He has missed the cut in four of five cuts on the Web.com Tour this season. He is 171st on the Web.com Tour money list. RICK LAMB (66) Age: 27 Hometown: St. Simons Island, Georgia Alma mater: Tennessee PGA TOUR starts: 28 Cuts made: 9 Best TOUR finish: T3, 2017 John Deere Classic Notes: Lamb has conditional status after finishing 150th in the FedExCup in his first TOUR season. He has made just one cut in nine starts this season, though. Lamb won on the Web.com Tour in 2016 and finished just two shots behind Bryson DeChambeau at last year’s John Deere. Lamb is 120th on this season’s Web.com Tour money list. FEDEX ST. JUDE CLASSIC QUALIFIERS T63. A.J. McInerney, 70-69-69-75 MC. T.J. Vogel, 70-74 MC. Omar Uresti, 70-75 MC. Ben Crancer, 75-72 THIS SEASON’S QUALIFIERS Qualifiers: 67 Made cut: 22 (32.8%) Top-10s: 3 (Scott Strohmeyer, T4 at Sanderson Farms; Trey Mullinax,T8 at Valspar; Julian Suri, T8 at Houston) Top-25s: 5 Most times qualified: T.J. Vogel (6)

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Many of the world’s best players made the short commute from Shinnecock Hills to TPC River Highlands for this week’s Travelers Championship. PGA TOUR LIVE will be there to bring extended coverage of the TOUR trip to Connecticut. Justin Thomas, Jason Day, Jordan Spieth and Brooks Koepka are among the big names you can watch this week in PGA TOUR LIVE’s Featured Groups coverage. The Thursday and Friday broadcasts will begin at 7 a.m. ET.  Featured Holes coverage of the drivable par-4 15th and the par-3 16th will begin at 3:30 p.m. ET. PGA TOUR LIVE also can be viewed on Twitter from approximately 7 to 8:15 a.m. on Thursday and Friday. On Saturday and Sunday, Featured Holes coverage can be viewed beginning at 1 p.m. ET on PGA TOUR LIVE.  Here’s a closer look at Thursday and Friday’s Featured Groups. (Note: All times Eastern; FedExCup rankings in parentheses) THURSDAY Jason Day (4), Xander Schauffele (32), Daniel Berger (74): Day, one of six two-time winners this season, is playing with two former Rookies of the Year. Schauffele, the reigning Rookie of the Year, is coming off his second consecutive top-10 in the U.S. Open. Last year, he followed his T5 at Erin Hills with a 14th-place finish at the Travelers Championship. Schauffele has thrived on big stages, also tying for second in THE PLAYERS. Berger was on the wrong end of Jordan Spieth’s incredible bunker shot at last year’s Travelers. That hole-out came in a sudden-death playoff with Berger. Tee times: 7:50 a.m. off No. 10 on Thursday; 12:50 p.m. off No. 1 on Friday. Patrick Reed (6), Webb Simpson (9), Brooks Koepka (13): This year’s Masters, PLAYERS and U.S. Open champions are all grouped in this threesome. Koepka arrives at TPC River Highlands after becoming the first player since Curtis Strange in 1988-89 to win consecutive U.S. Opens. Reed (4th) and Simpson (T10) also finished in the top 10 at Shinnecock Hills. Simpson won THE PLAYERS by four shots. Tee times: 8 a.m. off No. 10 on Thursday; 1 p.m. off No. 1 on Friday. FRIDAY Marc Leishman (20), Jordan Spieth (38), Russell Knox (67): This group is comprised of three former Travelers champions, including defending champion Jordan Spieth. Knox won in 2016 while Leishman is the 2012 Travelers champion. Spieth won three times last season to finish second in the FedExCup, while Leishman won twice. Knox won twice in 2015-16. Tee times: 12:50 p.m. off No. 1 on Thursday; 7:50 a.m. off No. 10 on Friday. Justin Thomas (2), Bubba Watson (10), Rory McIlroy (35): These three have combined to win five times this season. Thomas, the reigning FedExCup champion, and Watson have each won two titles, while McIlroy has one win in 2017-18. Watson also is a two-time Travelers champion (2010, ’15). Tee times: 1 p.m. off No. 1 on Thursday; 8 a.m. off No. 10 on Friday.

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Our experts provide their top fantasy golf plays this week for the Travelers Championship in Cromwell, Connecticut.

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