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PGA Tour: Dahmen Leads After R-1

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GREENSBORO – First round leader Joel Dahmen (1st/-9) in his 232nd start on TOUR, bidding for his second career PGA TOUR title (2021 Corales Puntacana Championship).

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Dahmen totaled 10 birdies, including three consecutive on Nos. 7-9 to finish his round, against one bogey (par-4 14th). His (61) tied his career low round on TOUR (R2/2020 RSM Classic/finished T50).

It was Dahmen’s best finish in six prior starts at the Wyndham Championship is T42 (2017). It marked his sixth career 18-hole lead/co-lead in individual stroke play (0-for-5 to date) and his second outright 18-hole lead this season (Corales Puntacana Championship/finished T2).

Notes:
  • Following the Wyndham Championship, the Top 70 players in the FedExCup standings will qualify for next week’s FedEx St. Jude Championship (the first of three events in the FedExCup Playoffs):
  • FedEx St. Jude Championship (Top 70 players following Wyndham Championship)
  • BMW Championship (Top 50 players following FedEx St. Jude Championship)
  • TOUR Championship (Top 30 players following BMW Championship)
  • Leaderboard (link)

Kaito Onishi (neck) and Nate Lashley (foot) WD after the first round of the Wyndham Championship

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Wyndham | Leaderboard After 18 Holes

1 Joel Dahmen 61 (-9)

2 Alex Noren 62 (-8)

T3 Cameron Young 63 (-7)

T3 Aaron Rai 63 (-7)

T3 Nico Echavarria 63 (-7)

T3 Mark Hubbard 63 (-7)

Full Leaderboard: (link)

PGA Tour: Wyndham Preview

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GREENSBORO – The 2025 Wyndham Championship is the 36th and last event of the 36 scheduled events in the PGA Tour’s FedEx Cup regular season. Since the inception of the FedExCup in 2007, the Wyndham Championship has played host to the FedEx Cup regular season finale (since 2008 at Sedgefield Country Club).

Following the Wyndham Championship, the Top 70 players in the FedEx Cup standings will advance to the FedEx St. Jude Championship. Every player ranked from Nos. 60-80 in the FedExCup standings are in the field: Tony Finau (No. 60), Rickie Fowler (No. 61), Davis Riley (No. 62), Kevin Yu (No. 63), Erik van Rooyen (No. 64), Nico Echavarria (No. 65), Emiliano Grillo (No. 66), Cam Davis (No. 67), Patrick Rodgers(No. 68), Byeong Hun An (No. 69), Matti Schmid (No. 70), Nicolai Højgaard (No. 71), Keith Mitchell (No. 72), Chris Kirk (No. 73), Christiaan Bezuidenhout (No. 74), Gary Woodland (No. 75), Kevin Roy (No. 76), Alex Smalley (No. 77), Davis Thompson (No. 78), Eric Cole (No. 79), William Mouw (No. 80).

The Wyndham Championship winner will receive 500 FedExCup points, a two-year exemption on the PGA TOUR and $1,476,000; the winner will also be exempt for The Sentry, THE PLAYERS Championship, Masters Tournament and PGA Championship in 2026.

  • This year marks the 86th annual Wyndham Championship, having been included on the PGA TOUR schedule since 1938 (the seventh-longest running TOUR event excluding the majors).

Following the Wyndham Championship, the Top 70 players in the FedEx Cup standings will advance to the FedEx St. Jude Championship. Every player ranked from Nos. 60-80 in the FedExCup standings are in the field: Tony Finau (No. 60), Rickie Fowler (No. 61), Davis Riley (No. 62), Kevin Yu (No. 63), Erik van Rooyen (No. 64), Nico Echavarria (No. 65), Emiliano Grillo (No. 66), Cam Davis (No. 67), Patrick Rodgers(No. 68), Byeong Hun An (No. 69), Matti Schmid (No. 70), Nicolai Højgaard (No. 71), Keith Mitchell (No. 72), Chris Kirk (No. 73), Christiaan Bezuidenhout (No. 74), Gary Woodland (No. 75), Kevin Roy (No. 76), Alex Smalley (No. 77), Davis Thompson (No. 78), Eric Cole (No. 79), William Mouw (No. 80).

The Wyndham Championship winner will receive 500 FedExCup points, a two-year exemption on the PGA TOUR and $1,476,000; the winner will also be exempt for The Sentry, THE PLAYERS Championship, Masters Tournament and PGA Championship in 2026.

Kitayama Takes 3M Open

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BLAINE (Minn) – Kurt Kitayama wasn’t sure he would qualify for the final two rounds of the 3M Open. It turned out to be a weekend to remember.

Kitayama shot 6-under-par 65 and held on to win the 3M Open by one stroke Sunday in Blaine, Minn., for his second PGA Tour victory.

“I feel like the game has been trending, and for it finally to kind of pay off now has been awesome,” Kitayama said.

Kitayama finished at 23-under 261 at  TPC Twin Cities for a one-stroke decision on Sam Stevens, who posted 66 on Sunday. Kitayama made a total of 20 birdies in the two weekend rounds.

Prior to that, he wasn’t certain he would make the cut in this tournament.

“On Friday, I was fighting my swing trying to find something,” Kitayama said. “Went to the range, trying to find something.”

He definitely discovered what was needed.

Kitayama, who tied a course and tournament record with a third-round 60 on Saturday, pretty much rode that wave of momentum. He had birdies on the first three holes Sunday — including a chip-in from the green side rough on No. 3 — and was 5 under through six holes on the way to a 29 on the front nine.

But after a bogey on No. 11, his lead was just two on England’s Matt Wallace, who had already completed his round. Kitayama rebounded with birdies on two of the next three holes.

Yet it took him three putts to finish the par-3 17th, with the bogey cutting the margin to one stroke. But Stevens, who had birdies on Nos. 14-16 to pull within striking distance, was all over the place on the 18th with his first three shots into the rough and scrambled for par.

Kitayama, in the next group, had a smooth final hole and won it with par.

The tournament title locked up a position for Kitayama in the FedEx Cup playoffs with one regular-season tournament remaining.

“Jumping up that much is great,” he said. “The goal is to make the playoffs and give yourself a chance.”

There was another special aspect of the result for Kitayama because his older brother, Daniel, was his caddie for the second week in a row.

Stevens settled for his third top-10 finish of the season.

David Lipsky and Wallace both registered 64s to share the distinction for the best score of the round, and they finished tied for third place at 20 under, along with Pierceson Coody (67) and Jake Knapp (68).

Wallace produced a bogey-free round, but finished with pars on his final three holes.

Chris Gotterup, who was aiming for his second title in three weeks, didn’t make a charge en route to a 69, tying for 10th place at 18 under.

Third-round co-leaders Thorbjorn Olesen (73) of Denmark and Akshay Bhatia (75) tumbled down the leaderboard and finished tied for 14th (16 under) and tied for 25th (14 under), respectively. Bhatia had seven bogeys Sunday.

Kevin Roy also registered 64 on Sunday, ending at 13 under.

–Field Level Media

Red Sox Take Dodgers Series

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BOSTON – (Staff and Wire Service Report) – Boston’s Alex Bregman hammered a go-ahead two-run homer to help the Red Sox defeat the visiting Los Angeles Dodgers 4-3 Sunday. The Red Sox took the three-game series, 2-1.

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Bregman’s 13th home run of the year came against Los Angeles starting pitcher Dustin May to conclude a three-run fifth inning.

Michael Conforto had three hits — a solo home run and two doubles — for the Dodgers, who also received two hits from Shohei Ohtani.

The Red Sox prevailed twice in the three-game series. Los Angeles won 5-2 Friday, and Boston earned a 4-2 victory Saturday.

Boston starter Walker Buehler pitched against the Dodgers — his former team — for the first time in his career, and was pulled with two outs in the fifth. Buehler gave up three runs on four hits, struck out four and walked five.

Brennan Bernardino (4-2) earned the win for recording the final out of the fifth inning.

Red Sox closer Aroldis Chapman left the game with one out in the eighth. He threw 11 pitches in the inning and walked two. Jordan Hicks got the final five outs for Boston for his second save.

May (6-7) pitched the first five innings for Los Angeles. He surrendered four runs on five hits and struck out five without a walk.

The Red Sox grabbed a 1-0 lead in the first inning when Roman Anthony was hit by a pitch, took third on Jarren Duran’s single and scored on Trevor Story’s sacrifice fly to center field. It was the second time the Red Sox have scored first in their nine games since the All-Star break.

Boston regained the lead by scoring three times in the fifth. It was 3-2 after Roman Anthony hit an RBI triple that drove in Abraham Toro, and Bregman followed with his two-run home run that put Boston in front.

–Field Level Media

Olesen Leads at 3M Open

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BLAINE – Denmark’s Thorbjorn Olesen overcame a double bogey and took over the lead at the 3M Open by posting a 5-under-par 66 Friday at TPC Twin Cities in Minnesota.

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Olesen entered the weekend at 14-under 128, one shot above Jake Knapp (65 Friday) and two ahead of Pierceson Coody (65) and Sam Stevens (68).

Olesen was 1 over par six holes into his round after hitting his tee shot out of bounds at the par-4 15th and hitting a poor shot off his drop. He proceeded to birdie the next two holes to erase that blemish, then add four birdies on the front nine.

“There was two great shots there,” Olesen said. “On (No. 16), I hit it to I think 3 or 4 feet, and also on 17 I hit it really close. Yeah, I mean, my iron play has been great. I didn’t — I felt pretty comfortable even though I made a double still, so that’s a good thing.”

Olesen, 35, is a veteran with eight wins on the DP World Tour but none in the United States. He started the week No. 129 in the FedEx Cup standings but said he’s simply taking every week as it comes.

“Every week is an opportunity to try and bounce back and do something special,” Olesen said.

Knapp is bogey-free through 36 holes as he seeks his second PGA Tour win. He opened his round with three straight birdies at Nos. 10-12.

“Feel like I’m kind of doing everything pretty good for the most part,” Knapp said. “I haven’t made too many putts, but yeah, I feel like it’s been, you know, kind of mistake-free for the most part. I haven’t really had to scramble too much.”

Tied for fifth at 11 under were Japan’s Takumi Kanaya (bogey-free 64), German Matti Schmid (68) and Chris Kirk (67).

A collection of notable names at 10 under included Wyndham Clark (65), Chris Gotterup (69), Akshay Bhatia (66) and Joel Dahmen (65). Alex Noren of Sweden joined them there by posting the round of the day, a 9-under 62 with an eagle-birdie-birdie-bogey finish.

“Today I understand why I love golf so much,” Noren quipped. “It’s a fantastic sport because it is tough and then when you get it right, it’s lovely.”

Canadian Adam Svensson broke the course record Thursday with an 11-under 60 but turned the wrong way Friday, posting a 4-over 75 to drop back to 7 under.

Max Homa (8 under following a 68), Rickie Fowler (7 under; 70) and Sam Burns (7 under; 64) made the cut, which landed at 5 under par as Friday’s round finished.

Those who missed the weekend included China’s Haotong Li (4 under), who was in the final Sunday pairing with Scottie Scheffler at last week’s Open Championship; Sahith Theegala (2 under); and Tony Finau (4 over), a former 3M Open champion who made back-to-back double bogeys en route to a 77 Friday.

–Field Level Media

PGA Tour: Preview for 3M Open

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BLAINE, Minn – The 2025 3M Open is the 35th of 36 FedEx Cup Regular Season events which means we are coming down the home stretch of the PGA Tour’s regular season.

The PGA TOUR returned to Minnesota for the seventh straight season, which debuted in 2019 as the TOUR’s first non-major event in Minnesota since the 1969 Minnesota Golf Classic (won by Frank Beard at Braemar Golf Club) and first official PGA TOUR event in the state since the 2009 PGA Championship (won by Y.E. Yang at Hazeltine National Golf Club).

TPC Twin Cities was designed by World Golf Hall of Fame member Arnold Palmer, who worked in consultation with Minnesota native and PGA TOUR veteran Tom Lehman.

Ten players in the field have competed in all six previous editions of the 3M Open: Cam Davis, Tony Finau, Brice Garnett, Chesson Hadley, Tom Hoge, Beau Hossler, Patton Kizzire, Peter Malnati, Troy Merritt, and Sam Ryder.

Four past champions of the 3M Open are in the field: Cameron Champ (2021), Tony Finau (2022), Lee Hodges (2023), Jhonattan Vegas (2024).

Vegas won the 2024 3M Open by one stroke over Max Greyserman, earning Vegas his fourth career PGA TOUR title in his 299th start. He became the first international winner of the event and the first player in tournament history with a win and runner-up (2021). Vegas seeks to become the first repeat winner in tournament history.

Maverick McNealy is the highest-ranked player in the field at No. 18 in the Official World Golf Ranking; has six top-10s this season, highlighted by a runner-up at The Genesis Invitational.

Following next week’s Wyndham Championship (July 31–Aug. 3), the top 70 players in the FedExCup standings will earn a spot in the FedEx Cup Playoffs.

  • There are 18 players in the 3M Open field who rank between Nos. 60-80 in the FedExCup standings entering the week: Davis Riley (No. 60), Kevin Yu (No. 61), Erik van Rooyen (No. 62), Rickie Fowler (No. 63), Cam Davis (No. 65), Patrick Rodgers (No. 66), Byeong Hun An (No. 67), Matti Schmid (No. 68), Keith Mitchell (No. 70), Emiliano Grillo (No. 71), Davis Thompson (No. 72), Eric Cole (No. 73), Alex Smalley (No. 74), Christiaan Bezuidenhout (No. 75), Kevin Roy (No. 76), Chris Kirk (No. 77), Gary Woodland (No. 78), Ryo Hisatsune (No. 79).
  • At No. 85 in the FedExCup, Adam Scott will make his tournament debut at the 3M Open; Scott’s best finish in 15 starts this season is a T12 at the U.S. 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: $8,400,000/$1,512,000

DEFENDING CHAMPION: Johnattan Vegas

TOURNAMENT OVERVIEW: (link)

OFFICIAL SITE: (3M)

PAST RESULTS: (link)

FEDEx CUP Points to Winner: 500

SOCIAL MEDIA: #PGATour #FedExCup @3MOpen #GolfThatMatters

Second Round at The Open

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PORTRUSH (Northern Ireland) – The 2024 British Amateur champion Jacob Skov Olesen of Denmark holds his first lead/co-lead after any round on TOUR. He has two prior starts on the PGA TOUR, the 2024 Open Championship at Royal Troon (T60), and last week’s 2025 ISCO Championship where he missed the cut.

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Haotong Li of China finished solo-third in his debut Open Championship start in 2017, his best finish in 47 prior TOUR starts. He holds his second 18-hole lead/co-lead on TOUR, the last being the 2019 WGC-HSBC Champions (T24).

Matt Fitzpatrick of England recorded his best opening-round score in his 10th start at The Open Championship. His previous best opening round was a (69) in 2017.

Christiaan Bezuidenhout of South Africa posted his best score in 17 Open Championship rounds with the previous best being (68s) in R1/2021, R3/2022. Bezuidenhout holds his first lead/co-lead after any round in 119 PGA TOUR starts.

Harris English is making his 10th Open Championship start, with his lone Top-25 finish coming in 2013 (T15). He holds the first-round lead/co-lead for the sixth time on TOUR, and is 2-for-5 to date converting to victory (2013 FedEx St. Jude Championship and 2021 The Sentry.

World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler (T6/-3) carded an opening-round (68) in bid to become the second straight player to win the PGA Championship and Open Championship in the same season (Xander Schauffele/2024). Scheffler is the only player to finish inside the Top 10 in the first three majors of 2025 (4th/Masters Tournament, 1st/PGA Championship, T7/U.S. Open).

The 2025 Masters Tournament champion and World No. 2 Rory McIlroy (T20/-1) could become the first player to win the Masters and Open Championship in the same year since Tiger Woods in 2005. McIlroy opened in 2019 at Royal Portrush with a (79).

The 2019 Open Championship winner (at Royal Portrush), Shane Lowry (T20/-1), recorded a 70 in R-1, but opened with a 67 in 2019.

In bid to become the first player to successfully defend at The Open since Padraig Harrington (2008), 2024 Open Championship winner Xander Schauffele (T32/E) posted a par (71).

The Open | Notes

  • Winds were blowing from SE 10-15 mph, with gusts to 23 mph
  • Five players sharing the first-round lead is the most at The Open Championship since a record six shared the lead at Royal St. George’s in 1938 (Jimmy Adams, Bill Cox, Ernest Whitcombe, Marcel Dallemagne, John Fallon, Jimmy Bruen Jr.).
  • A victory by any of the co-leaders would mark the 12th consecutive first-time Open Championship winner; the event has currently had 11 first-time winners, equaling the longest streak from 1994-2004; Ernie Els in 2012 is the last player tobecome a multiple winner of The Open Championship.

The Open | Leaderboard after 18 Holes

T1 Jacob Skov Olesen 67 (-4)

T1 Haotong Li 67 (-4)

T1 Matt Fitzpatrick 67 (-4)

T1 Christiaan Bezuidenhout 67 (-4)

T1 Harris English 67 (-4)

T6 Four Players 68 (-3)

Full Leaderboard: (The Open)

The Open Championship

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PGA Tour, LIV Players Tee-it-Up at Royal Portrush

PORTRUSH (Northern Ireland) – The 2025 Open Championship is the 33rd of 36 FedEx Cup regular season events. It is the final major of the season. Also being contested this weekend, The Barracuda, is the 34th of 36 events. There are only three weeks remaining until the start of the FedEx Cup Playoffs

This weekend:

  • It’s the final major championship of the season (Previous Winners: Rory McIlroy/Masters Tournament, Scottie Scheffler/PGA Championship, J.J. Spaun/U.S. Open)
  • The Open returns to Royal Portrush for the third time: 1951 (won by MaxFaulkner), 2019 (Shane Lowry)
  • Adam Scott is scheduled to make his 97th consecutive major championship appearance, dating to the 2001 Open Championship; only Jack Nicklaus (146) has played in more than 100 straight majors
  • Chris Gotterup, winner of last week’s Genesis Scottish Open, qualified for The Open Championship via The Open Qualifying Series as one of the top three finishers, not otherwise qualified (others: Nicolai Højgaard, Matti Schmid).
  • The last player to win on TOUR and win a major the following week: RoryMcIlroy (2014 WGCBridgestone Invitational, 2014 PGA Championship). (The PGA used two be the final major of the season).

The 153rd Open | Royal Portrush

  • 54 players in the field competed in the 2019 Open Championship at Royal Portrush, including nine of the Top 10.
  • The last 11 winners of The Open Championship won the event for the first time, starting with Phil Mickelson in 2013, tying the longest streak of first-time winners at The Open (1994-2004).
  • With three weeks remaining until the start of the FedEx Cup Playoffs, notable players in the field outside the Top 70 in the FedEx Cup standings entering The Open Championship include: Rickie Fowler (No. 71), Nicolai Højgaard (No. 73), Wyndham Clark (No. 78), Adam Scott (No. 83), Rasmus Højgaard (No. 84), Tom Kim (No. 87)

The Open | Tournament Preview

COURSE: Royal Portrush Golf Club, Portrush Northern Ireland

YARDAGE/PAR: 7,381 yards and a Par 71

ARCHITECT: Harry Colt

DEFENDING CHAMPION: Xander Schauffele

PRIZE Money (Purse/Winner’s Share): $17,000,000/$3,100,000

FEDEx CUP Points to Winner: 750

SOCIAL MEDIA: #PGATour #FedExCup @TheOpen

PGA TOUR SITE: (The Open)

PGA Tour: Gotterup Ties Course Record

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NORTH BERWICK (Scotland) – Chris Gotterup tied the course record with a 9-under-par 61 to take a two-shot lead at the midway point of the Genesis Scottish Open on Friday in Scotland.

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The round included a 6-under 29 on the front nine of The Renaissance Club to move Gotterup to 11-under 129 for the tournament.

England’s Harry Hall was alone in second place at 9 under following a 6-under 64 in the second round.

Sweden’s Ludvig Aberg (65) was in a group of three tied for third place at 8 under, along with England’s Matt Fitzpatrick (63) and Marco Penge (67).

Gotterup, 25, is looking for his second career PGA victory. He won at Myrtle Beach last year.

Gotterup carded nine birdies in the bogey-free round, six coming during his dynamic front nine.

“I definitely played good today,” Gotterup said. “Not a lot of wind in the morning which was obviously beneficial. But yeah, it’s funny, when it flips you get some holes that you like and some holes that you don’t like and vice versa.

“I think there’s definitely certain holes that feel nice. Nice three pars to finish. You just take what you can get, what the course gives you with the wind.”

Gotterup is trying to play his way into next week’s Open Championship at Royal Portrush. He currently has a flight to California scheduled for Monday.

Gotterup missed the cut in eight of his first 12 events this season but has rallied by making eight of the past nine cuts. He had four straight top-20 finishes in one stretch.

Hall, 27, had seven birdies and one bogey during his strong round. He followed that lone bogey with a stretch of four birdies in a row at Nos. 3-6.

“This wind position allows you to hold the green on a couple par-5s, and yeah, it made 5s drivable,” Hall said. “Definitely an easier wind.”

Northern Ireland’s Rory McIlroy improved three shots in the second round to a 65 and is in a group of seven tied for sixth place at 7 under overall. McIlroy was the biggest mover in the group, jumping 27 spots.

“I’m feeling pretty good,” McIlroy said. “I did a lot of good things today. Still a couple of loose shots here and there but overall I thought it was a good day and obviously excited for the weekend right in the thick of things, in contention going into the last two days, and you know that’s where — if there is anything you need to work on in your game, that’s where it’s going to show when you’re under that sort of pressure trying to win a golf tournament.”

First-round leaders Sepp Straka of Austria and American Jake Knapp also were at 7 under after each shot a 1-under 69. Another first-round leader, Victor Perez of France, was at 6 under following an even-par 70, while Nico Echavarria of Colombia plummeted from a tie at the top to a tie for 27th at 4 under following a 72.

U.S. Open champion J.J. Spaun failed to make the cut after a 72 that put him at 2 over par through two rounds. Scotland’s Calum Hill was just one shot off the lead after the opening round but failed to make the cut after shooting a 7-over 77 on Friday.

Collin Morikawa (4 over) also missed the cut.

–Field Level Media

PGA Tour: Campbell Wins John Deere

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SILVIS – (Wire Service Report) – It was quite a golf anniversary for Brian Campbell. Ten years to the week since he made his PGA Tour debut, he won the John Deere Classic.

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Campbell’s par on the first playoff hole gave him his second career victory on the tour, winning Sunday at TPC Deere Run in Silvis, Ill.

“It all started here as an amateur, my first invite here,” Campbell said. “I’ve loved it ever since.”

He loves it even more now.

Argentina’s Emiliano Grillo scrambled on the extra hole, the par-4 18th, and Campbell’s steady approach was enough.

Campbell, who also won the Mexico Open at Vidanta World in a February playoff, and Grillo, bidding for his third PGA Tour triumph, both posted 4-under-par 67s to finish regulation at 18-under 266. Campbell is the sixth multiple winner on the tour this year.

“To be let alone in a playoff and to finish it off this way, it’s just been amazing,” Campbell said.

Campbell’s double bogey on No. 15 nearly cost him, but he rolled in a birdie two holes later.

As he waited to see if there would be a playoff, Campbell opted for rest instead of going through another warm-up. He figured he had hit enough shots during the tournament.

“It’s grueling out here. We’re sweating. It’s just hot,” he said. “I think we really needed to take a break, get some water, rather than go out and beat balls and putt for who knows how many minutes.”

Grillo’s tee shot on the playoff hole went into the right rough and he never fully recovered from that.

“I think I hit every fairway today, except for that first in the playoff,” he said.

David Lipsky, who was in the final pairing, hit his tee shot into the rough on No. 18 and missed a par-saving putt from 15 feet away, dropping out of a would-be spot in the playoff with his 68. He tied for third place with Kevin Roy (65).

“I’m just really happy how I had a really good mindset, kept plugging away and grinded it out,” Lipsky said.

Lipsky’s bogey on No. 15 put his title chances in jeopardy, but an eagle 3 on No. 17 — coming on a putt of less than 8 feet — pushed him into a share for the lead.

“I’m going to look at the positives and take that from this week,” he said.

Carson Young (64), Lucas Glover (64), Jacob Bridgeman (64), Matt Kuchar (66), Kurt Kitayama (67) and Max Homa (69) all ended at 16 under in a tie for fifth place.

Again, the leaderboard was full of contenders.

“The first scoreboard I saw everybody was going bananas, and you kind of knew that would happen,” Glover said. “No wind, soft conditions, the rain (Saturday) softened everything up.”

Seventeen golfers, including amateur Jackson Koivun, ended up within three shots of the lead. Koivun (67), a 20-year-old, was among seven golfers at 15 under.

Homa was 3 under for the day through four holes and held the lead at 16 under before an uneven finish.

Beau Hossler and Michael Thorbjornsen set the early pace with torrid 63s for the day’s best rounds.

Third-round leader Davis Thompson shot 72 and tied for 18th place at 14 under. His fourth bogey of the day came on the final hole.

First-round and 36-hole leader Doug Ghim dropped to a tie for 31st place at 11 under after his Sunday score of 69.

South Africa’s Aldrich Potgieter, who won the Rocket Mortgage Classic in a playoff a week earlier for his first tour victory, withdrew prior to the final round.

–Field Level Media