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On the surface, most will easily pass on DJ’s chances, following his first-round 78, a reported back injury, which came after back-to-back rounds of 80s at the Memorial Tournament. But the long-hitter did just win the Travelers Championship less than a month ago, and his odds were similar that week. And before this event became

11:12 AM ET International players on the PGA Tour may compete in events in the United States without delay, according to a memo sent to players on Friday which said the White House had lifted various quarantine rules put in place due to the coronavirus pandemic for “players, caddies and essential personnel.” But Englishman Lee

You could hear Michael Thompson’s voice crack with his first word as his responded to CBS Sports’ Amanda Balionis when she asked him about how it felt to win the 3M Open on Sunday. The broadcast team had set things up well for those watching at home, noting how Thompson hadn’t won a PGA Tour

Welp, someone scratched his seven-year itch on Sunday. And he had to go all the way up to Minnesota to do it. Michael Thompson, who hadn’t won in seven-plus years and 166 starts, sprinkled in a spectacular bunker shot with a superbly mundane round of golf to calmly win his second PGA Tour title, beating

7:17 PM ET Associated Press BLAINE, Minn. — Without a gallery around him on the 18th green, Michael Thompson settled for a subdued victory celebration at the 3M Open with a FaceTime call home to his wife and children in Georgia. The tears came from him and his wife as soon as they saw each

Max Homa is considered by many the funniest PGA Tour pro on Twitter, having earned his 163,000-plus followers with a mix of blunt honesty, snarky humor, unending self-deprecation and Hall-of-Fame-level swing-roasting. Yet devoted fans of the 2019 Wells Fargo champ no doubt have noticed that Homa has yet to send out a message since after

3:51 PM ET Italy’s Renato Paratore maintained remarkable consistency to win the British Masters by three strokes, retaining his overnight lead and finishing at 18-under overall at Close House in Northumberland on Saturday. Paratore, 23, closed with a two-under par 69 in windy conditions to clinch his second European Tour title, adding to his Nordea

Players, caddies, and other essential personnel entering the United States to compete on the PGA Tour will no longer be subject to a 14-day quarantine, effective immediately. The restrictions were eased by the White House and players were notified via e-mail late Friday evening. The e-mail, obtained by Golf Digest, said the move was made

A boat race seemed to be on, a lazy final round was on the docket as Michael Thompson cruised to a four-shot lead on Saturday afternoon. But Thompson’s engine stalled on TPC Twin Cities back nine, bringing the S.S. Richy Werenski and a caravan of other ships into the heat. With 10 players within four

7:38 PM ET Associated Press BLAINE, Minn. — Michael Thompson hasn’t experienced the anxiety and thrill of playing the last round of a tournament in the final group for several years. This time, pitted against Richy Werenski in the 3M Open, he’ll do so without the murmuring, clapping and roaring sounds from the spectators. For

Only 19 centuries or so after the 73-mile long Hadrian’s Wall was built to signify the northwest frontier of the Roman Empire, another native of the Italian capital has left his mark on the northeast of England. With a final round of two-under-par 69 for a 72-hole total of 266, 18 under par for four

Last week had a certain Groundhog Day feel to it with the PGA Tour encamped at Muirfield Village for a second straight week. This week does, too, but this time it has nothing to do with the venue and everything to do with the leader board. To wit, Tony Finau was in contention heading into

9:02 PM ET Associated Press BLAINE, Minn. — Michael Thompson and Richy Werenski topped the 3M Open leaderboard going onto the weekend, Tony Finau and Talor Gooch climbed within a stroke and stars Brooks Koepka and Tommy Fleetwood struggled again Friday. In warmer and windier conditions on the quiet, spectator-free TPC Twin Cities course, the

Senior student-athletes at the University of North Carolina whose spring seasons were cut short due to the coronavirus will now have the opportunity to return under scholarship for the 2020-’21 school year due to a generous donation from UNC men’s basketball coach Roy Williams and his wife, Wanda. Austin Hitt and Brynn Walker, of the

Tiger Woods will chase his 16th major championship without much of a warmup. Woods opted against playing in next week’s World Golf Championships—FedEx St. Jude Invitational in Memphis, a no-cut event that would have afforded him four guaranteed rounds before the following week’s PGA Championship, which begins Aug. 6 at TPC Harding Park in San

12:28 PM ET Tiger Woods will skip next week’s WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational, opting to go into the PGA Championship having played just one event in the PGA Tour’s revised schedule. Woods, who tied for 40th at the Memorial Tournament last week, had been weighing whether or not to enter the World Golf Championship event

8:27 PM ET Associated Press BLAINE, Minn. — The virus outbreak has squelched the upbeat and welcoming vibe that marked the debut of the 3M Open last year. The fans might have been absent, but the soft greens were plenty friendly Thursday for Richy Werenski to take full advantage. “I have a good feeling they’ll

After two straight weeks at a major-like venue that brought out two major-like fields and produced two major-like finishes, the 3M Open had a tougher act to follow than the comic who comes on stage after Dave Chappelle. And yet, even though the very top of the leader board may send some casual fans to

10:21 AM ET Charlotte GibsonESPN Michelle Wie West, a five-time Solheim Cup veteran and 2014 U.S. Women’s Open champion, will return to Team USA as assistant captain. Captain Pat Hurst selected Wie West, 30, to work alongside previously announced assistant captain Angela Stanford when Team USA competes against Team Europe at Inverness Club in Toledo,

It’s not easy for someone like Rory McIlroy to fly under the radar for any length of time, but since the PGA Tour resumed its 2020 season last month at the Charles Schwab Challenge, that’s kind of what’s happened. Rack your brain for anything to do with him—beyond tournaments promoting how they have had the

While the PGA Tour has said that it will not allow fans at its tournaments for the remainder of the current season and in its opening event of the 2020-21 campaign, Golf Digest has learned that the organization will start allowing more people on-site, beginning with next week’s WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational in Memphis. In

9:35 PM ET Grayson Murray, who announced over the weekend that he had tested positive for COVID-19, was the only player to do so this week in advance of the 3M Championship. Murray took his test at home and never traveled to the tournament site, where tests for those competing in the tournament are mandatory.

Uncertainty reigns in college golf at the moment. Men’s and women’s coaches and players are waiting for their athletic departments, school presidents and conference commissioners to decide whether they’ll allow athletic competitions to be played during the fall semester. If there was hope a month ago that some semblance of a schedule would be contested,

The 3M Open is the second PGA Tour event since the restart of the season last month to keep its original spot on the tour calendar. Tournament officials can only hope it will replicate the magically wild finish they saw at TPC Twin Cities in 2019 when the event made its tour debut. Last year’s

7:48 AM ET ESPN Betting Insiders PGA Tour golf is back in full swing, albeit without the crowds we’re accustomed to. Jon Rahm took home the title at the Memorial Tournament and claimed the world No. 1 ranking in the process. The tour now heads to Minnesota for the 3M Open. Which players are good

The Royal & Ancient Golf Club is the purveyor of the Open Championship and has chosen the major golf tournament’s venues for more than 150 years. Nevertheless, President Donald Trump asked the American ambassador to Britain, Robert Wood Johnson IV, to inquire with the British government about returning the Open Championship to his resort in

6:37 PM ET BLAINE, Minn. — English golfer Tommy Fleetwood is ready to finish the PGA Tour season after an up-and-down four-month stretch, which included a pair of 14-day quarantines on two different continents. Fleetwood, one of the top golfers at this week’s 3M Open in Blaine, Minnesota, last competed in the United States in

Lexi Thompson will resume competing against the best women golfers in the world when the LPGA restarts next week. In the meantime, she nearly took down a male mini-tour legend during a final tuneup. On Tuesday, the LPGA star came up one shot short of catching Sunny Kim at a Minor League Golf Tour event.

High Upside: Bubba Watson ($9,900 DraftKings | $10,700 FanDuel) There’s very little consistency in Watson’s game from week to week but, statistically, he sets up well for TPC Twin Cities. He can bomb it around without any regard for missing fairways, and his ball-striking numbers last week were sublime. He was second in the field

8:17 AM ET Augusta National sits quiet. Life bustles by the esteemed club, which is closed for the summer and typically is not on the mind of the golf world. In a normal year, the Masters Tournament would be three months in the past, the major championship season complete. The club’s reopening to its membership