The top 100 in the playoff standings after next week lock in their PGA Tour card for next year, as this is the first year the Tour has trimmed that number down from 125. Players further up are angling for a top 70 position to make the first playoff event at the St.

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.

Adam Svensson made a 48-foot eagle putt on the closing hole to complete an 11-under 60 on Thursday that gave him a two-shot lead over Sam Stevens and Thorbjorn Olesen after one round of the 3M Open.

Sitting at No. 102 in the F edEx Cup season-long standings, he needs to play in the final two PGA Tour regular-season events and play like the Homa of old. But he and his wife are expecting their second child in a couple of weeks and the pull to be home at a very special time is real.

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.

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

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.

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