Andy Bessette

“This year we're going to have 30 of the top 30 in the world except for a couple of them that are on live and ones that uh uh uh Billy Borshell has some hip surgery but uh but other than that we're going to have the top 30 in the world and if you go beyond that hard we're going to have the top 50 to 72 in the world exce...”

— From Travelers Championship Talk w/ Tournament Director Nathan Grube & Travelers CAO Andy Bessette, 98.5 The Sports Hub (June 16, 2025)

“It starts 100% with the culture of your title sponsor. And when Travelers took this over, they literally hard This sounds so simple, but it's really not. Like they literally said, 'Okay, everybody who comes to this event is our customer and that is going to be our culture.' Like we are not going to take anything for gr...”

— From Travelers Championship Talk w/ Tournament Director Nathan Grube & Travelers CAO Andy Bessette, 98.5 The Sports Hub (June 16, 2025)

“Travelers is a company that cares about its communities it cares about charity and we give over $24 million a year Nationwide worldwide mostly Nationwide um as a corporation so this fits right into what we are and who we are uh as a company that's why we're title sponsor charity community and our it doesn't hurt our br...”

— From NATHAN GRUBE AND ANDY BESSETTE OF TRAVELERS, The Rob Dibble Show (February 01, 2025)

“There are only two important things for the Travelers Championship to remember Golf and food this is true we have to get both of those right if I don't if I don't get those two things right you're talking to somebody else next year.”

— From NATHAN GRUBE AND ANDY BESSETTE OF TRAVELERS, The Rob Dibble Show (February 01, 2025)

“The tournament's so great for our community, so great for charity, the ethos of Travelers. The company is all about charity and non-profits and being supportive and we have over 22 million dollars a year to different organizations and so the fit is so perfect between the two of us as to why we're here and what we do.”

— From Travelers Championship: Andy Bessette, Executive VP for Travelers, FOX 61 (June 24, 2021)

“By Monday morning we were ready to announce that we were going to do a million dollar match. If camp could raise a million, we pay a million. And that we announced that Monday morning. By Friday morning, I guess that's technically four days, they had surpassed the million dollars.”

— From Travelers Championship: Andy Bessette, Executive VP for Travelers, FOX 61 (June 24, 2021)

“YEAH, YOU KNOW, TIM, THE TOURNAMENT'S SO GREAT FOR OUR COMMUNITY, SO GREAT FOR CHARITY THE ETHOS OF TRAVELERS. THE COMPANY IS ALL ABOUT CHARITY AND NON-PROFITS AND BEING SUPPORTIVE AND WE HAVE OVER 22 MILLION DOLLARS A YEAR TO DIFFERENT ORGANIZATIONS AND SO THE FIT IS SO PERFECT BETWEEN THE TWO OF US AS TO WHY WE'RE HE...”

— From Travelers Championship: Andy Bessette, Executive VP for Travelers, FOX 61 (June 24, 2021)

“AND IT WAS SO DEVASTATING THAT WEEKEND ALAN SNITZER, OUR CHAIRMAN AND CEO AND I TALKED MOST OF THE WEEKEND AND BY MONDAY MORNING WE WERE READY TO ANNOUNCE THAT WE WERE GOING TO DO A MILLION DOLLAR MATCH RIGHT. IF CAMP COULD RAISE A MILLION WEPAY MILLION AND THAT WE ANNOUNCED THAT MONDAY MORNING BY FRIDAY MORNING I GUES...”

— From Travelers Championship: Andy Bessette, Executive VP for Travelers, FOX 61 (June 24, 2021)

“travelers gives over 22 million dollars a year to many many many non-profits nationwide and uh the ethos of who we are as a company our employees volunteer hundreds of thousands of hours a year and um we're very much a part of our communities and we really do focus on many important areas of philanthropy for our compan...”

— From SPN Podcast S4:EP26 Andy Bessette, & Nathan Grube, Sports Philanthropy Network (July 17, 2021)

“we will never accept the status quo in athletics as in life the status quo is poison the minute you accept the status quo there's only one way to go you think you're riding high well the only way to go is down and we're not going to do that we're not going down and so we've never accepted the status quo we throw away t...”

— From SPN Podcast S4:EP26 Andy Bessette, & Nathan Grube, Sports Philanthropy Network (July 17, 2021)

“We've got 30,000 employees working from home extremely successfully. And the company is doing well, the company is is working hard. Uh we've got essential workers, um you know, probably 1,500, couple of thousand nationwide. Uh some in Hartford. So, the the halls of the tower are not empty completely. And, uh, and we've...”

— From The Real Story Andy Bessette, Travelers, FOX 61 (August 02, 2020)

“Our charitable numbers were came in over 1.6 million. 1.6 million. And we didn't sell one ticket, we didn't sell one hamburger, we didn't sell one shirt, we sold nothing. But, um but the support from our corporate sponsors was second to none. They were terrific. They took a portion of or all of their sponsorship dollar...”

— From The Real Story Andy Bessette, Travelers, FOX 61 (August 02, 2020)