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Which player could win at this weekend's Travelers Championship? Our experts weigh in:

T.J. Auclair
PGATOUR.com Interactive Producer
Pick: J.J. Henry
I'm going to have to pick the defending champion, J.J. Henry. Short of winning a major championship, winning at home is the most difficult. Henry's win last year went a long way to landing him his maiden berth with the U.S. Ryder Cup team. We'll learn soon enough whether or not he can capture the same magic that led him to victory in 2006 at the tournament he grew up attending as a fan.

Brett Avery
The Fantasy Insider
Pick: Stewart Cink
Two ties for fifth and a share of third in his last six outings, going back to the Wachovia Championship in early May, indicate he has his game almost where he wants it. He's similarly studly at the TPC River Highlands, where he won in 1997 and has placed outside the top 20 just three times in nine starts (one of those a tie for 21st in 2003). After last week¹s brutal conditions at Oakmont CC this place will look like a day-care facility, one where he¹s got a record of quick starts (first-round average: 68.56).

Lauren Deason
PGATOUR.com Editorial Coordinator
Pick: Stewart Cink
It came down to Justin Rose -- who is coming off a tie for 10th at the U.S. Open and seems to have (knock on wood) rid himself of those nagging back problems, earning three straight top-10s on this side of the pond -- or Stewart Cink, who at first glance seemed like the not-so-smart pick following a missed cut at last week's major. But after careful consideration, I'm actually going with Cink, who has finished in the top 25 in five of his last six starts, only missed two cuts all year and logged four top-10s in 2007. Plus, the four-time PGA TOUR winner has a Travelers Championship title on his resume, getting his first victory there in 1997, and has six top-20s out of nine starts in the event with just one missed cut over the years. The stars could be aligning for Cink's fifth victory.

Dave Lagarde
PGATOUR.com Correspondent
Pick: Justin Rose
Look for the promising Brit to rebound from his final-round disappointment at the U.S. Open and break through on the PGA TOUR in his 104th start. He has been inside the top 10 in four of seven starts in the States, including tie for fifth at The Masters and a tie for 10th at Oakmont. He's just too talented not to own a PGA TOUR victory. He'll get it this week.

Melanie Hauser
PGATOUR.com Correspondent
Pick: J.J. Henry
I thought about Hunter Mahan, who's playing great. Pondered some bigger names, too, but I kept coming back to J.J. Yes, he took a beating along with everyone else last week, but he was one of the few I saw smiling on the way out. It's tough to defend anywhere, but he's been playing well this year and loves it here. It's where he grew up.

John Maginnes
PGATOUR.com Contributor
Pick: David Toms
I have been getting a hard time at home for being the worst picker in the bunch. So I have enlisted the aid of one of the premier fantasy players in the world. I could have used his picks without giving him credit but that would have been the same way that I passed advanced algebra in high school. We will call him Chuck. This week Chuck likes David Toms for a variety of reasons. David is always a solid pick. He is putting well and the TPC River Highlands should look easy after the test at Oakmont.

Helen Ross
PGATOUR.com Chief of Correspondents
Pick: David Toms
I was tempted to pick Toms last week at the U.S. Open but my eventual pick, Jim Furyk acquitted himself pretty darn well. Toms' record at the TPC River Highlands isn't stellar, with a tie for 20th his best finish, but he comes to Connecticut playing extremely well. He tied for fifth at the U.S. Open last week and finished third the week before in Memphis.

Dave Shedloski
PGATOUR.com Senior Correspondent
Pick: David Toms
He followed up a terrific run in Memphis with a stellar U.S. Open, finishing joint fifth. In six starts he has yet to make a distinguishing mark on the TPC River Highlands, finishing no better than 20th and missing the cut three times, a puzzling record for such a precision player. With his game in good form of late, that's likely to change.

The Nationwide Tour is back in action this week at the Knoxville Open. Dave Lagarde gives us his pick:
Hunter Haas -- In keeping with the Hunter theme (I picked Hunter Mahan as my sleeper at the Travelers Championship), Haas has the opportunity to become the first player in Tour history to win the same event three times. Horses for courses figures here in Knoxville.

The Champions Tour also returns to action this week at the Bank of America Championship. Lauren Deason gives us her pick:
Curtis Strange joined the Champions Tour in 2005 but hasn't won yet, despite concocting a World Golf Hall of Fame-worthy career while on the PGA TOUR. Since Strange won the first of his two U.S. Open titles in Brookline, Mass., the same state the Champions Tour tees it up in this week, maybe his positive mojo in the area will help him notch that first win. It doesn't hurt that he is coming off a couple of strong finishes, including a solo 11th place at the Senior PGA Championship.

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