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The Travelers Championship is regularly the second-most attended event on the PGA Tour, behind only the Waste Management Phoenix Open. The Travelers Championship has been played on only two Connecticut courses since its PGA Tour debut in 1952 – Wethersfield Country Club from 1952 to 1983 and TPC River Highlands from 1984 to the present.

Over the last ten years longer hitters have done well at the Travelers, with Stewart Cink, Hunter Mahan, J.J. Henry, and Phil Mickelson combining for five victories over an eight year span, and Mahan having also tied for second in both 2006 and 2008.

Last season, Kenny Perry – currently the highest all-time PGA Tour money winner without a major championship – won his second event of 2009 at the Travelers Championship. Coming from one stroke behind Paul Goydos, Perry shot a final round 63 and won his 14th career tour event – one win closer to his goal of twenty career wins. He eventually won the event by three strokes over Goydos and fellow American David Toms with a tournament-record 258. With the win Perry moved into a career high spot of #4 in the Official World Golf Rankings.

Debuting as the Insurance City Open in 1952, the tournament was renamed the Greater Hartford Open in 1967, a title that was retained in part through 2003. Legendary entertainer Sammy Davis Jr. was associated with the event for sixteen years, having his name in the title in 1973 when it was called the Sammy Davis Jr. Greater Hartford Open and until changing sponsors and the name to the Canon Sammy Davis Jr. Greater Hartford Open in 1988- Davis' last year of involvement. Canon not only was a long-time sponsor of this tournament, but their employees often took vacation time during tournament week in order to volunteer at the event.

Over its first three decades the Travelers Championship was played at Wethersfield Country Club, and 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 back nine holes. The course was renamed as well, becoming the TPC at River Highlands. This TPC property was the third PGA Tour owned and managed championship golf course in what has eventually grown to a network of over twenty-five TPC Clubs.