Good morning from TPC River Highland for the fourth and final round of the travelers.
Skies are overcast with the threat of rain in the air. At 10:30 a.m., traffic was light coming in with just a slight delay in getting to a spot to park.....

Morning highlights....

Rod Pampling kicked off the day as a single and teed off at 8:15. He had a bogey-free round to post his lowest round of the tournament with a 5-under 65. He ends up -4 overall at 68-68-75-65-276.

Other hot golfers this morning have been Charley Hoffman and John Merrick.
Hoffman -6 for the daythrough 12 holes and is -8 overall, eight strokes behind leader Justin Rose.
Merrick is -5 through 13 holes and is -6 overall.

Two players with Connecticut connections, Jerry Kelly and Jay Williamson, have had decent rounds. Williamson is -3 through nine holes and is 7-under overall and Kelly is -1 through 15 holes and is 1-under overall. Kelly attended the University of Hartford, and Williamson attended Trinity, in the 1980s.

The final group, Rose and Ben Curtis, will tee off at 1:55 p.m.

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Good morning from TPC River Highlands and what a day for golf!
At 10:30 a.m. golf fans are just trickling in with no wait in the parking area, which is excpected since the leaders don't tee off until this afternoon. The crowd is expected to pick up between 11 a.m. and noon. Leaders Justin Rose (-14) and Kevin Sutherland (-10), the final group, tee off at 2 p.m.

The early news is J.J. Henry. The former Fairfield resident is -3 through 11 holes and stands at -5 overall. He has a long way to go to come close to catching Rose, but at least for now he is inching his way up the leaderboard.
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Matt Jones has been on a roll. He birdied his last three holes - 12, 13 and 14 - to move into sole possession of second place (for now) at -9.

Connecticut connection Jay Williamson, who attended Trinity College, just finished his second round in impressive fashion with a 65. He is -5 for the round and is -6 overall for a two-round total of 69-65.

Vijay Singh started the day at 5-under and has made a move to pull into a two-way tie for second (behind leader Justin Rose, -13) with Bill Lunde, both at -8.
Singh just birdied the 13th hole to move to -8. Lunde, who started on the 10th tee, birdied the first hole to go to -8.
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Wow! What a wild finish in the first round of the Travelers Championship!

The final groups of the day are winding up their first-round action and some golfers have made a big move. Justin Rose birdied five of his last six holes to finish tied for the lead with Mathew Goggin, Padraig Harrington and Charlie Wi, posting a round of 64 for 6-under.
Rose missed a 12-foot putt for a birdie on the 18th hole to take the outright lead.
Vijay Singh and Kevin Sutherland also finished strong and ended up in a five-way tie at 5-under with a 65.
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As of 4 p.m. at the Travelers Championship, five afternoon golfers are tied at 3-under - Matt Bettencourt, Michael Letzig, Steve Elkington, Jeff Overton and Will MacKenzie. Bettencourt, Letzig, Elkington and Overton are through 10 holes. MacKenzie is through eight holes.

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Jerry Kelly has always had at least one solid round in his 12 previous appearances at the Travelers Championship. The University of Hartford grad who lives in Madison, Wis. admitted he has been plagued with inconsistency recently and is working on correcting that in 2010.
He began this week’s Travelers with a solid first-round number of 66 on Thursday and he hopes to build on his start of 4-under.
“I’ve been playing well but I haven’t been consistant,” Kelly said. “I’ve been working more on my fundamentals and putting in a lot of work with my coach (Jim Schuman, Kelly's swing coach and brother-in-law).
The extra work certainly paid off in the first round as he closed strong to keep him among the leaders.
He birdied three of the last five holes on 14, 15 and 17 and he had to work for those birds. He landed in the bunker on all three holes. He left himself with an 18-foot put out of the bunker on 14 and made the putt. On 15, he left himself with a six-foot putt that he made for birdie and on 17 he left himself with about a nine-foot putt that he made for his final bird.
“I feel good about my round,” Kelly said. “I made some great shots and some good putts, especially with the birdies on 14, 15 and 17. That shot (out of the bunker) on 15 was the best shot I had all day.”
Kelly’s best round at the Travelers was a 65 and he shot it twice - in the second round in 2001 and first round in 2009. His best overall finish at the Travelers was a tie for fourth in 2005 with a four-round total of 268.

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Mathew Goggins finished his first round with a 6-under 64 to tie Padraig Harrington at -6. Harrington is -6 though 15 holes.