Nick Taylor enters the 2026 Travelers Championship at TPC River Highlands after finishing tied for 17th at 6-under in 2025. His recent form includes one top-10 and two top-20 finishes in his last ten starts, with current season rankings showing gains that are
Nick Taylor didn’t walk away from the 2025 Travelers Championship thinking he’d been far off. He finished tied for 17th at 6-under, a result that already feels close enough to promise more—especially with the 2026 tournament set to begin at TPC River Highlands on June 25-28.
This time, the focus is sharper. Taylor is aiming to turn “tied for 17th” into something better in front of a familiar stretch of competition. In 2025, he went 66-68-69-71-6, and the memory of that week is now part of the runway to the next tee time.
His history at the Travelers Championship has offered a mix of outcomes. In 2024, he finished tied for 4th at 6-under with rounds of 68-73-65-67, and in 2021 he made the cut but didn’t convert it into a finish, exiting as a missed cut after scores of 70-72 (to par +2).
The numbers coming in for 2026 sketch a player still searching for a steady convergence of parts—tee shots, approach, and putting—at the same time.
Over his last five tournaments. Taylor’s “strokes gained” profile paints a clear picture of where the work has been paying off and where it hasn’t. He has averaged -0.169 Strokes Gained: Off-the-Tee, and 0.586 Strokes Gained: Putting. He’s also averaged 0.162 Strokes Gained: Total in those five events.
That total is supported by broader TOUR rankings that, on first glance, make the week feel unpredictable. Taylor’s overall TOUR rank for Strokes Gained: Total is 58th over his season, and he sits at 59th in FedExCup Regular Season points with 561 points.
But the season-by-season details show why the Travelers matters so much for him right now. Taylor’s Strokes Gained: Off-the-Tee average this season is -0.198, placing him 119th. His driving distance is 298.0 yards, ranking 127th.
Where he has found more momentum is in the shots that come after contact. His Strokes Gained: Approach the Green this season stands at 0.220, ranked 60th. His Greens in Regulation rate is 65.54%, good for 79th.
On the greens, Taylor’s results are mixed enough to swing a week either way. He has a Strokes Gained: Putting mark of 0.018 this season, ranking 76th. His Putts Per Round average is 28.53, ranking 58th, and he’s breaking par 20.66% of the time, ranked 111th.
In the big picture of recent starts, the storyline is encouraging without being settled. Over his last ten appearances at the Travelers Championship. Taylor has finished in the top 10 once and in the top 20 twice. His best finish in that span came at the Cadillac Championship. where he tied for ninth with a score of 9-under.
The lead-up to TPC River Highlands also includes a run of starts across major and signature events. At the PGA Championship in May 2026, Taylor finished T26 with scores of 69-72-65-74. At the Truist Championship the same month, he finished T14 with rounds of 66-73-68-70. Earlier still. at the PGA Championship’s spring stretch. he was T4 at the Memorial Tournament presented by Workday. carding 68-78-73-76 (+7).
He also had a missed cut at the U.S. Open in June 2026, finishing MC after 74-71 (+5). At the RBC Canadian Open, he made his way to a T6 finish with rounds of 67-71-78-64 (to par E3.9).
Across the season. the Travelers Championship slot June 25-28 carries weight because Taylor’s own stats are pointing in two directions at once. His recent five-tournament averages suggest he can make up ground through putting and overall play. but his season rankings show that the best weeks will likely come when his off-the-tee performance stops pulling him backward.
The sequence of his season markers reads like the shape of a puzzle: approach play sits around the middle of the TOUR, putting is capable of producing gains, yet his off-the-tee strokes gained and driving distance rankings remain lower than where he would need them to be for a run.
For Taylor, the Travelers Championship is exactly the kind of stage that rewards the right week stitched together—because he’s already proven he can finish among the leaders here. Now it’s about doing it again, with a field that doesn’t wait, and a clock that starts on June 25.
All stats in this profile are accurate for Taylor as of the start of the Travelers Championship. The PGA TOUR’s player performance data is from ShotLink powered by CDW. The tour has created this story using AWS Gen AI technology; while accuracy and quality are prioritized. the information provided may not be entirely error-free.
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