There’s a peculiar gravity to the final weeks of a PGA TOUR season, a weight that presses harder on players teetering along the FedExCup Playoff

Max Homa is struggling to balance his PGA Tour standing with the impending birth of his second child. He needs strong performances in the remaining two regular-season events to secure a spot in the FedEx Cup playoffs. Homa shot a 5-under 66 in the first round of the 3M Open but acknowledges the need to play exceptionally well.

Let's start in Minnesota, where Jhonattan Vegas shows up to defend his 3M Open title carrying the weight of potential history. Vegas's win last year was pure theater, moving him from No. 147 to No. 66 in FedEx Cup points after his victory.

If Frankie Capan III’s return to Blaine and this week’s 3M Open seems like going home again, it’s because it is. The first Minnesotan to earn a fully exempt PGA Tour card since 2013, the 25-year-old has made the cut seven times in 20 events in his rookie season.

PGA Tour pro Zac Blair has the swing speed and spin characteristics of the average 1 handicap, according to a fitter in the greater Minneapolis area.

At the start of 2025 at the Sony Open in Hawaii and at The American Express, Kim was continuing to use a Scotty Cameron Phantom 9.2 Tour Prototype mallet that he was also using at the end of 2024.

SportsLine's model simulated the 2025 3M Open 10,000 times and revealed its PGA Tour golf picks for Wyndham Clark, Emiliano Grillo and others from TPC Twin Cities