CROMWELL, Conn. — Weighing in at simply 6,800 yards, TPC River Highlands is likely one of the shortest—and best—stops on the PGA Tour calendar. That normally is simply tremendous with gamers, lots of whom have simply come off the enterprise finish of the U.S. Open.

However, the Travelers Championship is not a pleasant little respite from main championship golf, because the Connecticut match is now a delegated occasion on the tour schedule. And with such a loaded competitors—statistically, the Travelers had one of the best area in golf this season—it’s honest to surprise if the venue is probably too straightforward for what’s on the road. There have been two 60s, a 61, and 5 62s on the week, with Keegan Bradley breaking the match’s 72-hole scoring report and only one shot away from tying the tour’s all-time 54-hole scoring mark.

Following his last spherical, Rory McIlroy was requested if the course is now too gettable for at the moment’s gamers, and he replied within the affirmative.

“I don’t particularly like when a tournament is like this. Unfortunately, technology has passed this course by, right?” McIlroy mentioned after a Sunday 64, good enough for a T-7 finish. “It sort of has made it obsolete, especially as soft as it has been with a little bit of rain that we had. So, again, like the conversations going back to, you know, limiting the golf ball and stuff like that, when we come to courses like this they just don’t present the challenge that they used to.”

McIlroy’s stance is just not essentially a shock; he has made related remarks concerning straightforward set-ups on the DP World Tour in Europe. Moreover, McIlroy has been one of many few gamers to be in favor of the golf ball rollback proposed by the USGA and R&A.

Whatever rollback might come, nevertheless, gained’t be instituted for years. With that in thoughts, McIlroy was requested what else programs can do to toughen their set-ups within the brief run. He responded by saying it’s not a matter of merely rising out the tough.

“That bunches everyone together,” McIlroy defined. “The blueprint is something like LACC where you have wide targets, but if you miss it’s penal. This isn’t that sort of golf course. It’s not that sort of layout. It doesn’t have the land to do that. So, you know, unfortunately when you get soft conditions like this and you’ve got the best players in the world, this is what’s going to happen.”

For all 4 rounds this 12 months at TPC River Highlands, the place par is 70, the scoring common was 68.40, which is the bottom quantity on tour this season. Coincidentally, the tour’s hardest scoring common additionally got here this month on the Memorial, which completed with a 73.52 mark.