Adam Svensson made a 48-foot eagle putt on the closing hole to complete an 11-under 60 on Thursday that gave him a two-shot lead over Sam Stevens and Thorbjorn Olesen after one round of the 3M Open.

Let's start in Minnesota, where Jhonattan Vegas shows up to defend his 3M Open title carrying the weight of potential history. Vegas's win last year was pure theater, moving him from No. 147 to No. 66 in FedEx Cup points after his victory.

PGA Tour pro Zac Blair has the swing speed and spin characteristics of the average 1 handicap, according to a fitter in the greater Minneapolis area.

There’s a peculiar gravity to the final weeks of a PGA TOUR season, a weight that presses harder on players teetering along the FedExCup Playoff

The first Minnesotan to earn a fully exempt PGA Tour card since 2013, the 25-year-old has made the cut seven times in 20 events in his rookie season. He has one Top 10 and two Top 25 finishes and was third with partner Jake Knapp at the team-competition Zurich Classic in New Orleans last April.

Max Homa is struggling to balance his PGA Tour standing with the impending birth of his second child. He needs strong performances in the remaining two regular-season events to secure a spot in the FedEx Cup playoffs. Homa shot a 5-under 66 in the first round of the 3M Open but acknowledges the need to play exceptionally well.

At the start of 2025 at the Sony Open in Hawaii and at The American Express, Kim was continuing to use a Scotty Cameron Phantom 9.2 Tour Prototype mallet that he was also using at the end of 2024.