Winners and Losers from the 2015 Travelers Championship

Travelers Insurance, with its red umbrella logo, is an appropriate sponsor of the Cromwell, Connecticut, tournament at TPC River Highlands this week as the final round was played under steady sprinkles. 

A pair of left-handers took center stage for most of the final round as Bubba Watson and Brian Harman dueled. As the latter faltered, however, Englishman Paul Casey caught the former with an inspired final-round 65. 

The winner of the Casey-Watson playoff showdown...is a winner this week. 

Who else joins him? 

Read on to find out.

Winner: A Pair of Left-Handers

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Beginning Sunday's final round, a pair of left-handed golfers sat atop the leaderboard...and neither of them was named Phil Mickelson!

Brian Harman, winner of the 2014 John Deere Classic and "misser" of his last two cuts, fired a pair of 65s Friday and Saturday to move to the top of the leaderboard at 14 under entering the final round. 

The oft-disgruntled Bubba Watson opened the tournament with an eight-under 62 and played steady golf until the 13th hole Sunday, when he poured in an eagle putt to move three ahead of the competition and seemingly seal the deal. 

Unfortunately, Watson faltered down the stretch to wind up in a playoff with Paul Casey and looked to have made a real mess of things. 

Watson, however, managed to outlast the Englishman and secured both his second win of the season and his second career win at the Travelers.

Loser: Louis Oosthuizen

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Louis, Louis.

Oosthuizen, who finished one stroke back of Jordan Spieth, had a significant letdown at the Travelers Championship. 

Oosthuizen made just one birdie for his two rounds in Cromwell and missed the cut by three strokes. 

Disappointing work by the 16th-ranked golfer in the world. 

Winners: Graham DeLaet, Paul Casey

Graham DeLaet had recorded just two top-10 finishes in 17 starts on the PGA Tour this season entering the Travelers Championship. 

With top-25 finishes in his last two starts, however, the Canadian was showing signs of life as the tournament began in Cromwell. 

A Saturday 64 vaulted DeLaet up the leaderboard and booked his passage to the Open Championship at St Andrews (via the Open Qualifying Series). 

DeLaet finished fourth, his best showing of the season.

Paul Casey, too, has been toiling in obscurity in recent seasons, having not won on the PGA Tour since 2009. He fired a brilliant five-under final round to earn himself a playoff date with Bubba Watson. 

Casey's hole out for eagle at the third hole during the final round was the shot of the tournament. Check it out above. 

Even with the skulled sand shot at the second playoff hole that cost him a shot at victory, Casey is still a winner for his fine play this week, which earned him his second second-place finish of the season.

Loser: This Patrick

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Following a tie-for-14th finish at the U.S. Open, Patrick Reed came to TPC River Highlands looking to avenge a missed cut at the Travelers last year.

Unfortunately, Reed posted the same disappointing result this year, carding a Friday two-over 72 to finish outside the cut line. 

The 15th-ranked golfer in the world didn't hit enough greens to give himself a chance this weekend, finding just 52.78 percent of greens in regulation across his opening two rounds.

Winner: This Patrick

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Patrick Rodgers made the Travelers Championship cut on the number, thanks to a final-hole birdie Friday.

The Stanford alum capitalized on the opportunity to play weekend golf by torching TPC River Highlands for seven birdies to vault more than 50 places up the leaderboard.

And while his final-round three-over 73 wasn't impressive, you have to admire the emerging star's ability to go low. 

Rodgers finished tied for 39th.

Loser: The People's Golfer

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A waterball midway through his Sunday round sunk Jim Renner, "The People's Golfer." But really it was the defection of his army of Barstool Sports staff over the weekend that started Renner's slow bleed. 

Irrepressible Boston homer, David Portnoy (Barstool's founder), followed the native Bostonian Thursday and Friday at TPC River Highlands. Clad in green "Renner's Army" tees, Portnoy and his compatriots inspired Renner to an opening-round three-under 67. 

He followed up his good work Thursday with a Friday 68 to his troops' delight.

Over the weekend, though, when his army left active duty, Renner faltered, carding a pair of even-par rounds to finish tied for 48th. 

The People's Golfer deserves four rounds of his army's support!

Winner: OQS Qualifier

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PGATour.com indicates, "The top four players, not previously eligible, who finish among the top 12 (and ties) at the Travelers Championship and The Greenbrier Classic will earn entry into The Open Championship. The top player among the top five (and ties) at the John Deere Classic will also qualify."

Thus, the four players who punched their tickets to St Andrews were. 

• Brian Harman: 3 (-15)
• Graham DeLaet: 4 (-14)
• Carl Pettersson: 5 (-13)
• Luke Donald: T7 (-11)

Well done, gents. 

Loser: The Guy Who Gave Bubba Watson Unsolicited Advice

Seemingly stymied by a tree and 100 yards from the hole at the par-four second, Bubba Watson approached his golf ball and weighed his options. 

Outside the ropes, a fan suggested Watson ought to punch a low long-iron shot under the tree and run his ball up to the green. 

Instead, Watson hacked a wedge up and over the tree to inside five feet. 

After the shot, Watson sought out the fan to remind him that the guys inside the ropes know what they are doing. 

All stats via PGATOUR.com