Learning the game of golf in a garage produced Tony Finau's remarkably compact yet powerful swing. It was on point Thursday, leading him to a 6-under 65.
His 7-over-par score included what he called a "tap-in" 9, and it followed consecutive 80s he shot last week at the Memorial Tournament, where he missed the cut.
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Bulked-up PGA Tour sensation Bryson DeChambeau isn't at the 3M Open that begins Thursday, but Tony Finau, Brooks Koepka, Dustin Johnson and Bubba Watson will play on a TPC Twin Cities susceptible to big hitters.
Tommy Fleetwood, No. 12 in the world, has not played in a tournament since professional sports shut down in mid-March. He makes his return to the PGA Tour this week in Blaine.
Dustin Johnson, who shot +16 over two rounds last week in Ohio, understands how fickle the game of golf is. At his best, Johnson, 36, has been good enough to win once every year since his rookie season in 2008.
Edinburgh USA pro Don Berry had hoped to play in several major tournaments this summer, but that was before the coronavirus pandemic changed everything.
The 156-player field features six players in the top 30 in the world: Dustin Johnson (4), Brooks Koepka (6), Tommy Fleetwood (12), Tony Finau (19), Paul Casey (25) and Bernd Wiesberger (29).
The 3M Open returns to Blaine this week — but to satisfy health officials and PGA Tour executives, there will be no fans and no corporate tents among the 250 socially-distant acres at TPC Twin Cities.
Matthew Wolff, a 20-year-old sponsor exemption making his fourth PGA Tour start and third as a professional, sank a 26-foot eagle putt on the 72nd hole to outlast Bryson DeChambeau and fellow phenom Collin Morikawa by a stroke in last year's tournament.
This week's 3M Open in Blaine is The seventh event on the PGA Tour since competition resumed in mid-June following a three-month shutdown because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Frankie Capan, the former Alabama golfer now at Florida Gulf Coast University, set a tournament scoring record relative to par with a 12-under score of 204 after he shot 66-67-71 over three days.
Defending champion Clay Kucera of Chaska Town Course is one of 156 golfers in the Minnesota State Amateur, a three-day tournament that starts Monday at Edina Country Club.
Two Eagles — one early, one late — enabled the golfer from England to rally for the championship with a record round. Afterward, he got a surprise.
Jeff Sorenson of the Minikahda Club shot a second straight 5-under 67 on Wednesday to take a one-shot lead at the Minnesota State Open at Royal Golf Club in Lake Elmo.
The forgivable loans from the federal Paycheck Protection Program can mean "the difference between a not-very-good year and a disastrous year," a brewery leader says.
Isabella McCauley shot a closing 3-under 69 to beat Kathryn VanArragon by two shots after the final round of the 45th Minnesota Girls' Junior PGA Championship at Rush Creek
Isabella and Reese McCauley, who play golf at Simley High School, entered the final day tied atop the leaderboard after spending entire days together practicing.
Luke Herbert and Noah Kandt were putting on the 12th green at Island View Golf Club when their round ended abruptly and their roles as bird rescuers commenced.