The new 3M Open added 2015 PGA champion Jason Day's commitment Monday to a growing field that also includes inquisitive young star Bryson DeChambeau and current Masters champ Patrick Reed.
All three rank among the world's top 15 players and will compete at TPC Twin Cities in Blaine July 1-7. At least three more "big, big names" are expected to commit in the next three weeks for what 3M Open boss Hollis Cavner calls Minnesota's biggest outdoor party over July 4th weekend.
"Each week is a bigger name," Cavner said, "and Jason Day is pretty big."
A 12-time PGA Tour winner who's currently ranked 11th, Day won that PGA Championship at Whistling Straits in neighboring Wisconsin and won twice last season. In his past two times out this season, the 31-year-old Australian and 2016 Players champion finished tied for fifth at the Farmers Insurance Open and tied for fourth at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am.
Perhaps most importantly, Day won last season's Wells Fargo Championship, which is one of four PGA Tour events now run by Cavner's Pro Links Sports company. It's a connection Cavner said helped get Day's early commitment.
"It helps a lot because they know they're going to be treated great," he said.
One of the four PGA Tour events Cavner organizes is this week's World Golf Championship in Mexico City.
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