KRAMER HICKOK

Scottie Scheffler is closer than ever to his first PGA Tour victory.

Martin Trainer is leading the Houston Open.

Cam Davis won the Rocket Mortgage Classic on Sunday for his first PGA Tour title when Troy Merritt missed a 6-foot par putt on the fifth hole of a playoff.

Prior to this weekend, it’s not too farfetched to believe that even casual golfers hadn’t heard of Harris English and Kramer Hickok.

Hickok had missed a 36-foot birdie putt and finished the playoff with eight consecutive pars. English sank a 28-footer on the 72nd hole to emerge from a three-way tie and finish at 13 under. Hickok lipped out on two long birdie putts that would have won it; on the sixth playoff hole, English missed a seven-foot birdie putt to win. English finished the fourth round birdie-bogey-birdie, skipping after the ball and pumping his fist after the final hole of regulation. This year, he shot 64 in the final round and was the leader in the clubhouse for several hours at 12 under but settled for third.

Harris English made birdie on the eighth hole of sudden death to win the Travelers Championship.

18 to finish with a 68 and fall back into a tie. “I’ve been in contention before,” said Hickok, who has won on the Korn Ferry Tour and the Canadian Mackenzie Tour. Watson won the tournament in 2010, ‘15 and ’18. It was his second straight year with an ace at TPC River Highlands. He had a 1 on the 169-yard 16th hole in the first round last year, when he tied for 11th.

Three-time Travelers champion Bubba Watson picked up three strokes on Kramer Hickok over the final two holes, shooting 68 to pull into a tie for the lead at 10-under par with the minor league tour regular.

Jason Day shot a bogey-free 8-under 62 to take the lead in the second round of the Travelers Championship.

Kodaira took the lead at 8 under in the afternoon after making the turn onto the front nine birdie-eagle-birdie, but a bogey on the par-3 eighth dropped him back into a tie with Hickok. 1 ranking until Jon Rahm passed him Sunday with his U.S. Open victory, stumbled at the start with a bogey on the second hole and then a double on No. Two-time Travelers champion Phil Mickelson sank a 64-foot putt for birdie on the par-4 ninth hole — his second-longest putt since the tour began tracking such things in 2004. He was helped when he holed out from the fairway for an eagle on the 348-yard, par-4 second hole. “You just take a lot weight off your shoulders and you just go and simplify things ... just saying, ‘I don’t have that shot today.

Satoshi Kodaira and Kramer Hickok each shot a PGA Tour career-best 7-under 63 to share the first-round lead Thursday in the Travelers Championship.