The Sunday Sweat

Travelers Championship

Every Sunday, the LoopGolf team writes a newsletter for our community highlighting all the action around golf, betting and culture.

Our favorite weeks at the HQ are product update weeks. It’s always fun to see the product features we’ve been grinding on come to life for use by out entire community.

ICYMI, this past weeks product update included live matches, track the action of those you follow in real-time, scoring improvements to our single player mode to make keeping score as easy as possible, and the ability to accept game invites directly from your apple watch.

Next up is the most requested game by our community, Wolf. Given this game types many nuances we’re excited to bring technology, design, and payments to this game in order to make it a far more engaging experience moving forward.

The LPGA is in Springfield, NJ this weekend for their second major of the year, the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship. 

The biggest storyline heading into the weekend was Rose Zhang, who at 20-years old played in and won her first LPGA event in dramatic fashion earlier this month at the Mizuho Americas Open. Zhang hasn’t had the weekend she hoped for but keep your eye on this upcoming talent. Zhang won the 2023 Augusta National Women’s Amateur, had 12 wins in 20 starts at Stanford and spent 141 weeks as the number 1 ranked amateur golfer in the world, the most of any player.

Meanwhile, Leona Maguire is on a heater. After winning the Meijer LPGA Classic last weekend by two strokes, she now finder herself near the top of the Women’s PGA Championship with a shot to go back-to-back and win her 1st major title.

How to watch today:

  • 11am to 2pm ET on Peacock

  • 2pm to 6pm ET on NBC & Peacock

  • ⛳️ Tournament: Travelers Championship

  • 💰 Purse: $20,000,000

  • 🎥 Watch: 1pm-3pm ET (Golf Channel), 3pm-6pm ET (CBS)

The PGA TOUR is back on the east coast this week as the pros head to TPC River Highlands. Connecticuts soft, wet and humid conditions have created pristine scoring conditions for the field which has us thinking this final round should provide a sneaky dramatic finish.

The Narrative: Keegan Bradley made a run at the PGA Tour’s 54-hole record and is in position to pick up his second win of the season today. At 189 for the tournament, he finished just one shot shy of the record (188) which was set by Justin Thomas in 2017. Through the first three rounds, the 37-year-old has totaled 22 birdies and has carded just one bogey. Even with a big lead, Bradley will need to stay aggressive today in order to fend off the likes of Rickie Fowler who continues to play incredibly well.

Keegan Bradley is a spiritual man.. After holing another lengthly putt to get a share of the lead yesterday, Bradley held up his putter and bowed down to it stating “when the putter is working, that’s our God”.

Rickie Fowler needed one more birdie yesterday to shoot an illustrious 59, informally known as a perfect score in golf. Regardless, Fowler carded his best round ever on the PGA TOUR and has put himself back in contention after finishing T5 last week at the U.S. OPEN.

Justin Thomas has had a horrible 2023 season but when this guy is cookin, it’s fun to watch. We’re happy to see JT playing some good golf again and back in contention.

Outright Winner: Rickie Fowler @ +3000 ($100 to win $3000)

Why? It’s simple. This bet is all about a GREAT storyline. Rickie is one of the most popular players on the TOUR but has struggled mightily for the last 4 years. Over the last few weeks, he’s looking like his old self again and we believe it’s his time to break through. Will be rockin our orange tomorrow in support of our boy Rickie. It’s go time!

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