Headed next summer for its fourth tournament in a seven-year deal, the 3M Open will return to its current schedule slot the week after the British Open.
The event could return after 2022 to its inaugural date in 2019 over the July 4 weekend or another date if a better one opens.
The holiday date probably draws a better field. The post-British Open date probably draws the bigger crowds.
This year, executive tournament director Hollis Cavner recruited against the Tokyo Olympics that took Americans Collin Morikawa, Justin Thomas and Xander Schauffele, Northern Ireland's Rory McIlroy, Norway's Viktor Hovland and Japan's Hideki Matsuyama, among many others.
He also recruited against a date that comes immediately after the British Open plays six time zones away.
"I don't have a problem with the week after the British," Cavner said. "We didn't get hurt by the British as much as the Olympics."
There will be no Summer Olympics again until 2024.
Cavner and 3M countered the late July date by chartering a luxury jetliner that flew players and their teams immediately from England to Minnesota.