2019 3M Open (The 37Th of 46 Events in the PGA TOUR Season)
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2019 3M Open (The 37th of 46 events in the PGA TOUR Season) Blaine, Minnesota July 4-7, 2019 Purse: $6,400,000 (winner: $1,152,000) TPC Twin Cities Par/Yards: 35-36—71/7,468 Final-Round Notes – Sunday, July 7, 2019 Weather: Partly cloudy, with a high of 80. Wind E/SE 5-10 mph. Final-Round Leaderboard Matthew Wolff 69-67-62-65—263 (-21) Bryson DeChambeau 66-62-70-66—264 (-20) Collin Morikawa 68-66-64-66—264 (-20) Adam Hadwin 64-66-69-67—266 (-18) Things to Know • Sponsor invite Matthew Wolff eagles 72nd hole to claim first PGA TOUR win by one stroke • Wolff becomes third player to win NCAA individual championship title and PGA TOUR event in same year • Bryson DeChambeau eagles 72nd hole to finish T2 • Collin Morikawa eligible for Special Temporary Membership with T2 finish • 263 becomes the winning 72-hole total for the third consecutive week • Lucas Glover becomes the fourth player to shoot 62 at the 3M Open Statistics Matthew Wolff Age 20 (4/14/99) Country USA FedExCup -- OWGR Projected top 140 PGA TOUR starts 4 PGA TOUR wins 1 PGA TOUR top-10s 1 Starts in 2018-19 4 Wins in 2018-19 1 Top-10s in 2018-19 1 Matthew Wolff (1st/-21) • Playing as a sponsor invite, Agoura Hills, California native claims his first career PGA TOUR victory in his fourth start at the age of 20 years, 2 months, 23 days • With the victory, becomes eligible to take up PGA TOUR membership and claim two-year exemption, taking him through the 2020-21 season • Should he take membership, 500 FedExCup points will go towards making the FedExCup Playoffs and would be projected to move inside the top 75 in the standings (came into the week with two non-member FedExCup points, which would become official with membership) • Should he take membership, among others, would be eligible for the following 2020 calendar events: Sentry Tournament of Champions, PLAYERS Championship, Masters Tournament and PGA Championship • Is projected to move from No. 1,659 in the Official World Golf Ranking to inside the top 140 • Win comes in his third start as a professional; third sponsor exemption in as many weeks: Travelers Championship (MDF/T80), Rocket Mortgage Classic (MC). As an amateur, finished T50 at the 2019 Waste Management Phoenix Open • Victory in his fourth PGA TOUR start is tied with three other players (Garrett Willis, Paul Lawrie, Fred Wadsworth). Those who won in fewer starts: Jim Benepe (1st), Russell Henley (3rd), Seve Ballesteros (3rd), Bob Gilder (3rd) • Becomes the first player to win his first PGA TOUR event before his 21st birthday since Jordan Spieth at the 2013 John Deere Classic (19 years, 11 months, 18 days) • Becomes the first player to win by holing a shot from off the green at the 72nd hole since Dustin Johnson at the 2018 FedEx St. Jude Classic • Becomes the first player to win after receiving a sponsor invitation since Billy Hurley III at the 2016 Quicken Loans National • Becomes the 11th first time winner of the 2018-19 PGA TOUR Season and comes a week after Nate Lashley claimed his first TOUR victory in the Rocket Mortgage Classic field as an alternate • Becomes third player to win NCAA individual championship title and PGA TOUR event in same year, joining Ben Crenshaw and Tiger Woods • Becomes the 21st 54-hole leader/co-leader on the PGA TOUR to convert for the win this season • 9-under 62 in round three fell one stroke shy (in relation to par) of lowest score to par on TOUR by a player under 21 (since 1983): 10-under 60/Patrick Cantlay/2011 Travelers Championship/R2/19 years old, 10-under 62/Rory McIlroy/2010 Wells Fargo Championship/R2/20 years old • Outstanding amateur career at Oklahoma State University; made the winning putt to clinch the 2018 NCAA Championship; won the 2019 NCAA individual title; received Phil Mickelson Award in 2017-18 as the nation’s most outstanding freshman, and the Haskins Award in 2019 for top collegiate golfer Collin Morikawa (T2/-20) • Los Angeles, California native overcame two early bogeys at Nos. 2 and 3 with six birdies on his inward nine to finish T2 with Bryson DeChambeau • With the finish, earned enough non-member FedExCup points (245 plus existing 89 equals 334) to claim PGA TOUR Special Temporary Membership, which allows him to seek unlimited sponsor invitations in his bid to finish inside the top 125 and earn PGA TOUR membership • Finish comes in his seventh start on the PGA TOUR and fifth as a professional • Previous professional finishes: T14/RBC Canadian Open, T35/U.S. Open, T36/Travelers Championship • As a 19-year-old, contended at the Korn Ferry Tour’s Air Capital Classic in 2016 posting weekend rounds of 63-63 for a 17- under total before losing to Ollie Schniederjans in a three-man playoff • Spent three weeks as No. 1 in the World Amateur Golf Ranking in 2018 Bryson DeChambeau (T2/-20) • 54-hole co-leader made an eagle at the par-5 72nd hole to take the clubhouse lead at 20-under 264 • Watched as Matthew Wolff in the group behind holed an eagle putt from off the green to win by a stroke • After going bogey-free in the opening 36 holes, the first time he’d achieved the feat on the PGA TOUR, made just three bogeys on the week; No. 13 (R3), and Nos. 7 and 9 in the final round • With the T2 finish, is projected to move to 14th in the FedExCup standings with 1,193 points • Marked his fourth 54-hole lead/co-lead and is the only one which didn’t result in victory (2018 the Memorial Tournament, 2018 THE NORTHERN TRUST, 2018 Shriners Hospitals for Children Open) • Was in search of his sixth career win on TOUR and second of the season (2018 Shriners Hospitals for Children Open) • Including his win in Las Vegas, has now collected five top-10 finishes in 16 starts this season. In his most recent start before this week, finished T8 at the Travelers Championship Adam Hadwin (4th/-18) • Birdied the par-5 18th hole for the fourth consecutive round to post a 4-under 67 and notch his fifth top-10 of the season • Fourth-place finish matches his season-best number of top-10s (2017) and marks his 20th career top-10 showing • Was in search of his second PGA TOUR win (2017 Valspar Championship) Miscellaneous notes • Carlos Ortiz (T5/-17) birdied his final two holes to post a bogey-free 7-under 64, marking his third final-round 64 of the 2018-19 PGA TOUR Season (Sanderson Farms Championship/T3, Sony Open in Hawaii/T29) • Coming off back-to-back missed cuts, Lucas Glover (T7/-16) made 10 birdies and one bogey in the final round, good for the fourth score of 62 this week. He joined Scott Piercy (R1), Bryson DeChambeau (R2) and Matthew Wolff (R3) • With five birdies and an eagle, good for a career-low 7-under 64, Sam Burns (T7/-16) posted one of 12 bogey-free rounds Sunday • Following first- and final-round 6-under 65s, Brian Harman (T7/-16) notched his second top-10 finish in his last three starts (T8/Travelers Championship). Moves to No. 100 in FedExCup • In his third start as a professional and a week after finishing T13 at last week’s Rocket Mortgage Classic, sponsor invite Viktor Hovland (T13/-15) closed with a bogey-free 6-under 65. With 120 non-member FedExCup points, closes in on the 266 needed to earn Special Temporary Membership and become eligible for unlimited sponsor invitations • Two-time PGA TOUR winner Troy Merritt (T7/-16), a former Spring Lake Park and Winona State golfer who transferred to Boise State after his sophomore year, followed a second-round 7-under 64 with weekend scores of 66-68 • 60-year-old Minnesota native Tom Lehman (T58/-7), who consulted on course renovations at TPC Twin Cities where he played the 3M Championship eight times, records scores of 67-69-68-73—277 • World No. 1 and FedExCup No. 2 Brooks Koepka (65th/-6) posted scores of 67-72-67-72—278. His scores on the par-5 18th hole: 4-8-7-3 Bogey-free rounds R1 (10): Scott Piercy (62), Patton Kizzire (66), Brendan Steele (66), Bryson DeChambeau (66), Ryan Armour (66), Dylan Frittelli (66), Brian Gay (67), Roberto Diaz (67), Tom Lehman (67), Scott Brown (68) R2 (14): Bryson DeChambeau (62), Corey Conners (64), Jason Dufner (65), Kevin Streelman (65), Charles Howell III (66), Charlie Danielson (66), Chase Wright (66), Sebastian Munoz (66), Viktor Hovland (66), Sam Ryder (66), Martin Laird (67), Carlos Ortiz (67), Roger Sloan (67), Arjun Atwal (68) R3 (8): Johnson Wagner (64), Tom Hoge (65), Beau Hossler (65), Charles Howell III (66), Robert Streb (67), Cameron Tringale (67), Bronson Burgoon (67), Brian Gay (68) R4 (12): Sam Burns (64), Carlos Ortiz (64), Joey Garber (65), Fabian Gomez (65), Brian Harman (65), Viktor Hovland (65), Peter Malnati (67), Sam Saunders (67), Robert Streb (67), Adam Svensson (67), Kramer Hickok (68), Hank Lebioda (68) Scoring averages Front 9 Back 9 Total Cumulative R1: 34.981 35.310 70.290 -- R2: 34.673 34.771 69.444 69.870 R3: 33.706 35.153 68.859 69.651 R4: 34.438 33.959 68.397 69.455 Toughest hole Easiest hole R1: Par-4 9th hole (4.374) Par-5 12th hole (4.542) R2: Par-4 9th hole (4.359) Par-5 12th hole (4.373) R3: Par-4 2nd hole (4.153) Par-5 12th hole (4.471) R4: Par-4 2nd hole (4.342) Par-5 12th hole (4.356) Cumulative: Hardest: Par-4 9th (4.279) Easiest: Par-5 12th (4.444) .