BLAINE – The 3M Open is the 43rd of 44 PGA Tour events in the FedEx Cup regular season, with just two weeks remaining until the start of the FedEx Cup Playoffs. New in 2023, only the top 70 in the FedEx Cup standings will qualify for the FedEx St. Jude Championship (the first Playoffs event), down from 125 (2009-2022).
Notable players outside the top 70 in the FedExCup standings include No. 75 Justin Thomas, No. 90 Gary Woodland and No. 118 Billy Horschel.
Thomas is currently No. 75 in the FedExCup standings with two weeks remaining until the start of the FedEx Cup Playoffs. Thomas, in his ninth season as a TOUR member, has never missed the Playoffs.
He has advanced to the TOUR Championship in each of the last seven seasons and finished in the Top 10 in the standings in the last six, including his FedEx Cup title in 2017. Thomas has the most PGA TOUR wins (15) and major championship titles (2) of any player in the field and is also the most recent PLAYERS Championship winner (2021) and FedEx Cup Champion (2017).
There are (24) players in the field who made the trip from The Open Championship, including three that finished in the Top 10:
- Sepp Straka (T2)
- Emiliano Grillo (T6)
- Cameron Young (T8).
Straka has a win (John Deere Classic) and a T2 (The Open Championship) in his last two starts, becoming the first player to win on TOUR and finish runner-up in his next start since Jordan Spieth in 2022 (Won/RBC Heritage, 2nd/AT&T Byron Nelson). Straka is No. 15 in the FedExCup standings, the second-highest of any player in the field (Finau/10), and is attempting to qualify for the TOUR Championship for the second consecutive season.
Grillo, who won the Charles Schwab Challenge earlier this season for his second career PGA TOUR title, has two Top-fives in three starts at the 3M Open, including a T-2 in 2022. His T6 at The Open Championship was his first career Top-10 in a major.
At No. 15 in the Official World Golf Ranking, Young is the highest-ranked player in the field. He is also the highestranked player in the OWGR that has not won on the PGA TOUR. Young is making his tournament debut at the 3M Open.
The 3M Open | Tournament Facts
COURSE: TPC Twin Cities, Blaine, Minnesota
YARDS/PAR: 7,431 yards/Par 71
ARCHITECT: Arnold Palmer
PRIZE Money – Purse: $7,800,000/$1,404,000
DEFENDING CHAMPION: Tony Finau
PAST RESULTS: (link)
FEDEx CUP Points to Winner: 500
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3M Round One: Thursday, July 27, 2023 – All Times EDT
7:45am – 7:00pm – Streaming on ESPN+
1:00pm – 7:00pm – Sirius/XM Radio (92) and PGA Tour.com/PGA Tour Radio
4:00pm – 7:00pm – Golf Channel
4:00pm – 7:00pm – Streaming on Peacock Network