After the Ohio for two weeks at Jack Nicklaus (Muirfield Village Golf Club), the PGA Tour heads northwest to Minnesota for the 3M Open ($ 6.6 million in prize money). This tournament is one of the few that has not been postponed or shifted from its initial date in the calendar due to the pandemic linked to Covid-19.
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It is in Blaine, in the inner northern suburbs of Minneapolis, that 156 players meet to try to succeed Matthew Wolff, surprise winner in 2019 at just 20 years old. He had received an invitation and had only turned professional for a short month (at the Travelers Championship). No one since 2016 had won on the PGA Tour by way of an invitation ... In his third start, leaving Bryson DeChambeau and Collin Morikawa one stroke behind on Sunday thanks to a last card of 65 ( -7) and a total score of -21, he took the opportunity to become the third player in history to win the same year the NCAA National Championship and a tournament on the PGA Tour. Known for his very unusual swing, Wolff has since struggled to digest this unexpected and precocious success. He did not record any top 10 any more until July 5 when he finished second in the Rocket Mortgage Classic, just behind Bryson DeChambeau.
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If the field is not as prestigious as last week at the Memorial Tournament (17 of the top 20 in the world at the start), we can however cite the presence of Dustin Johnson (n ° 4) and Brooks Koepka (n ° 6). The first one passed completely through at Memorial (two cards of 80) and will therefore be followed closely since he won very often (three times) when he missed the cut the previous weekend… A also follow the Englishman Tommy Fleetwood. One of the heroes of the last Ryder Cup at the Golf National (four doubles wins with Francesco Molinari) is indeed making his comeback on the PGA Tour since the PLAYERS Championship on March 12 ... The 12th player in the world finished 3rd on the 1st March in Florida at the Honda Classic before missing the cut at the Arnold Palmer Invitational and then being stopped, like everyone else, after 18 holes at Ponte Vedra Beach… It will be interesting to analyze his recovery on a course he does not know (the TPC Twin Cities, a par 72 of 6,505 meters opened in 2000 and designed by Arnold Palmer with the help of Tom Lehman, native of Minnesota) and whose resistance had been severely tested in 2019 with a average scores of 69.455 ...
3M Open (PGA Tour) - $ 6,600,000 endowment (5,776,048 euros endowment)
Players to watch
Matthew Wolff (USA), Paul Casey (Ang), Harris English (USA), Tony Finau (USA), Tommy Fleetwood (Ang), Dylan Fritelli (AfS), Lucas Glover (USA), Will Gordon (USA), Russell Henley (USA), Charley Hoffman (USA), Charles Howell III (USA), Mark Hubbard (USA), Mackenzie Hughes (Can), Dustin Johnson (USA), Chris Kirk (USA), Brooks Koepka (USA), Luke List ( USA), Henrik Norlander (Sue), Doc Redman (USA), Patrick Rodgers (USA), Erik Van Rooyen (AfS), Jhonattan Vegas (Ven), Bubba Watson (USA), Xinjun Zhang (Chn).
To watch the 3M Open (PGA Tour) on TV:
Thursday July 23, 1st round: 8:30 p.m. (Golf +); 11:33 p.m. (Canal + Sport)
Friday July 24, 2nd round: 8:30 p.m. (Golf +); 10:26 p.m. (Canal + Sport)
Saturday July 25, 3rd round: 7:00 p.m. (Golf +); 9:00 p.m. (Canal + Sport)
Sunday July 26, 4th round: 7:00 p.m. (Golf +); 9:00 p.m. (Canal + Sport)
