5 days ago
Can Michael Kim follow up his second-round 59 to continue separating from the pack at the 2026 3M Open?
The 33-year-old from South Korea put down 12 birdies in his near-record round, shooting up the leaderboard to 14 under. Round 1 leader Ben Kohles enters Round 3 three strokes back, while Chandler Phillips, Michael Brennan and Emiliano Grillo made late pushes to get into contention.
PGA Tour rookie Jackson Koivun continued his impressive start, entering the third round four shots behind Kim. Billy Horschel, Troy Merritt and Zac Blair come in within five strokes of the lead, while Scottie Scheffler slipped up on the back nine Friday before wrapping with a birdie to enter moving day at 7 under. Gary Woodland and Hideki Matsuyama, who rallied after entering the second round below the cut line, also could make some noise today.
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The 33-year-old from South Korea put down 12 birdies in his near-record round, shooting up the leaderboard to 14 under. Round 1 leader Ben Kohles enters Round 3 three strokes back, while Chandler Phillips, Michael Brennan and Emiliano Grillo made late pushes to get into contention.
PGA Tour rookie Jackson Koivun continued his impressive start, entering the third round four shots behind Kim. Billy Horschel, Troy Merritt and Zac Blair come in within five strokes of the lead, while Scottie Scheffler slipped up on the back nine Friday before wrapping with a birdie to enter moving day at 7 under. Gary Woodland and Hideki Matsuyama, who rallied after entering the second round below the cut line, also could make some noise today.
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6 days ago
Scottie Scheffler is looking up at one of the most exciting rookies on the PGA Tour heading into the second round of the 2026 3M Open.
The world No. 1 started out strong with a 6-under 65, three strokes behind Ben Kohles. But the one to watch early on is Jackson Koivun, the 21-year-old who won the Jack Nicklaus, Ben Hogan and Fred Haskins award twice apiece at Auburn. In his third tournament as a full card-carrying PGA Tour member, Koivun shot a bogey-free round of 7-under 64. He's tied with Emiliano Grillo after Round 1.
Lucas Glover, Gary Woodland and Michael Brennan look to climb farther up the leaderboard today. There's a lot of room for movement around the cut line at TPC Twin Cities, with Hideki Matsuyama among those right on the projected cut line.
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The world No. 1 started out strong with a 6-under 65, three strokes behind Ben Kohles. But the one to watch early on is Jackson Koivun, the 21-year-old who won the Jack Nicklaus, Ben Hogan and Fred Haskins award twice apiece at Auburn. In his third tournament as a full card-carrying PGA Tour member, Koivun shot a bogey-free round of 7-under 64. He's tied with Emiliano Grillo after Round 1.
Lucas Glover, Gary Woodland and Michael Brennan look to climb farther up the leaderboard today. There's a lot of room for movement around the cut line at TPC Twin Cities, with Hideki Matsuyama among those right on the projected cut line.
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7 days ago
Scottie Scheffler got off to a really good start at the 3M Open on Thursday.
Scheffler posted an opening round of six-under 65 and he is currently sitting just one stroke adrift of the leader, Emiliano Grillo.
The world number one made six birdies and 12 pars during his opening round at TPC Twin Cities.
Scottie Scheffler has experienced a tough season on the PGA Tour in 2026, and he will be eager to record his second win of the year this week.
He played some really solid golf on day one of the 3M Open and he will be more than happy with his day's work.
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Scheffler posted an opening round of six-under 65 and he is currently sitting just one stroke adrift of the leader, Emiliano Grillo.
The world number one made six birdies and 12 pars during his opening round at TPC Twin Cities.
Scottie Scheffler has experienced a tough season on the PGA Tour in 2026, and he will be eager to record his second win of the year this week.
He played some really solid golf on day one of the 3M Open and he will be more than happy with his day's work.
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1 month ago
Wyndham Clark will start the final day at the top of the 2026 U.S. Open leaderboard on Sunday, June 21.
Clark produced a commanding lead, finishing at 7-under par for the day at Shinnecock Hills Golf Club in Southampton, New York.
Scottie Scheffler, Sahith Theegala, Tom Kim and Sam Stevens are all grouped up at -1 for second behind Clark. Scheffler made the most significant jump on Day 3, moving up nine spots on the day.
Theegala moved up the board five spots. Kim and Stevens managed to hold their position throughout the day.
Xander Schauffele finished at even par for the third day of the tournament and slid down four spots on the leaderboard, joining Emiliano Grillo, Keith Mitchell and Sam Burns in the group tied for sixth place.
Clark produced a commanding lead, finishing at 7-under par for the day at Shinnecock Hills Golf Club in Southampton, New York.
Scottie Scheffler, Sahith Theegala, Tom Kim and Sam Stevens are all grouped up at -1 for second behind Clark. Scheffler made the most significant jump on Day 3, moving up nine spots on the day.
Theegala moved up the board five spots. Kim and Stevens managed to hold their position throughout the day.
Xander Schauffele finished at even par for the third day of the tournament and slid down four spots on the leaderboard, joining Emiliano Grillo, Keith Mitchell and Sam Burns in the group tied for sixth place.
1 month ago
SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. — Xander Schauffele glanced skyward after a three-putt at the 12th, a brief petition to whatever authority might intervene, then dropped his eyes knowing no appeal was coming. He gathered himself and moved to the 13th tee, carrying what everyone else at Shinnecock Hills was carrying Saturday. "Just kind of a long day," he would say afterward. "U.S. Open day."
After two days of grumbling that the set-up lacked teeth, Shinnecock and the USGA found their nerve, leaning into everything this course is capable of, and perhaps announcing what Sunday intends.
On Friday evening players received a text from tournament officials that the greens would be firmed and quickened. Then the wind arrived and never left, bending the flags into shapes they weren't designed to hold. The recipe wasn't complicated. Missed approaches that might have been recoverable on Thursday or Friday were now problems without solutions. There were no easy pitches, no gimmes waiting on the other side. Saving par required earning it.
The raw numbers don't fully convey that sentiment. A 73.6 scoring average, not quite a stroke-and-a-half higher than Friday's 72.25, reads as demanding but not deranged, the kind of difficulty a national championship is supposed to produce. The texture tells a different story. Of the 72 players who teed it up in Round 3, just two finished under par: Scottie Scheffler and Emiliano Grillo, although rumors circulated in the field that Grillo actually shot his 67 at National Golf Links of America and ******* ody caught it. For posterity, only a missed putt at the last separated Wyndham Clark from red figures. He had sprayed it everywhere and it didn't matter; the man was Michael Myers, absorbing every punishment the golf course threw at him and kept coming, a threat to everyone still breathing. He leads by six with 18 holes remaining.
But set Clark aside. The cruelty of Saturday is in the details. Rory McIlroy made three straight birdies on the front nine and looked like Clark's biggest threat. The back nine ended that: five bogeys, no birdies, a slide from second place to outside the top 15. The same back-nine dissolution that swallowed him Friday, written out again in the same handwriting.
After two days of grumbling that the set-up lacked teeth, Shinnecock and the USGA found their nerve, leaning into everything this course is capable of, and perhaps announcing what Sunday intends.
On Friday evening players received a text from tournament officials that the greens would be firmed and quickened. Then the wind arrived and never left, bending the flags into shapes they weren't designed to hold. The recipe wasn't complicated. Missed approaches that might have been recoverable on Thursday or Friday were now problems without solutions. There were no easy pitches, no gimmes waiting on the other side. Saving par required earning it.
The raw numbers don't fully convey that sentiment. A 73.6 scoring average, not quite a stroke-and-a-half higher than Friday's 72.25, reads as demanding but not deranged, the kind of difficulty a national championship is supposed to produce. The texture tells a different story. Of the 72 players who teed it up in Round 3, just two finished under par: Scottie Scheffler and Emiliano Grillo, although rumors circulated in the field that Grillo actually shot his 67 at National Golf Links of America and ******* ody caught it. For posterity, only a missed putt at the last separated Wyndham Clark from red figures. He had sprayed it everywhere and it didn't matter; the man was Michael Myers, absorbing every punishment the golf course threw at him and kept coming, a threat to everyone still breathing. He leads by six with 18 holes remaining.
But set Clark aside. The cruelty of Saturday is in the details. Rory McIlroy made three straight birdies on the front nine and looked like Clark's biggest threat. The back nine ended that: five bogeys, no birdies, a slide from second place to outside the top 15. The same back-nine dissolution that swallowed him Friday, written out again in the same handwriting.
1 month ago
SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. — It's tempting, albeit short-sighted, to view Scottie Scheffler's Saturday at Shinnecock through the lens of his last two holes. Had he made the seven-foot par putt after an exceptional bunker shot on 17, and had he holed the downhill four-foot birdie putt on 18, he'd have finished at three under, just three shots behind Wyndham Clark, who was fighting his own battles many holes behind. It would have guaranteed Scheffler a spot in the final group and given Clark a few unsettling scenarios to ponder. It would also have meant he shot a frankly unbelievable 30 on the back nine and come off the course with the kind of torrid momentum that would have to rattle the seemingly unshakeable leader, at least a little.
But let's temper the recency bias just a bit with a few relevant facts:
—Scheffler shot a 69, one under, which was one of exactly two under par rounds in the entire field (shout out Emiliano Grillo who somehow found a 67 out there.)
—He shot a 32 on the back nine, best of the field, and the list of players who broke par on that brutal inward nine is three names long—Scheffler, Clark and Sahith Theegala.
—The USGA upped the green speed, the wind blew (though maybe not as much as the gleeful amateur meteorologists were predicting), dust was in the air, and the list of players under par dwindled from ten to three.
But let's temper the recency bias just a bit with a few relevant facts:
—Scheffler shot a 69, one under, which was one of exactly two under par rounds in the entire field (shout out Emiliano Grillo who somehow found a 67 out there.)
—He shot a 32 on the back nine, best of the field, and the list of players who broke par on that brutal inward nine is three names long—Scheffler, Clark and Sahith Theegala.
—The USGA upped the green speed, the wind blew (though maybe not as much as the gleeful amateur meteorologists were predicting), dust was in the air, and the list of players under par dwindled from ten to three.
