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2023 3M Open Thursday tee times, how to watch at TPC Twin Cities

Everything you need to know for the first round action at TPC Twin Cities.

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With major season in the rearview mirror and the FedEx Cup Playoffs on the horizon, the PGA Tour is back on the road to Blaine, Minnesota for its annual stop in the Land of 10,000 Lakes.

Defending champion Tony Finau returns to highlight a field of 156 players featuring 11 of the world’s top 50 that includes Cameron Young, Justin Thomas, Sepp Straka and Sungjae Im. Also in the field is Alex Gaugert, caddie for Erik van Rooyen who Monday qualified via a 4-for-3 playoff.

From tee times to TV and streaming info, here’s everything you need to know for Thursday’s first round of the 2023 3M Open at TPC Twin Cities. All times Eastern.

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Thursday tee times

1st tee

Time Players
7:45 a.m. Jimmy Walker, Kelly Kraft, Kramer Hickok
7:56 a.m. Sam Ryder, Doug Ghim, Ben Griffin
8:07 a.m. Robby Shelton, Austin Eckroat, S.H. Kim
8:18 a.m. Matt Wallace, Chez Reavie, Lucas Glover
8:29 a.m. Ryan Brehm, Richy Werenski, Matt Kuchar
8:40 a.m. Adam Svensson, Stewart Cink, Brandt Snedeker
8:51 a.m. Martin Laird, Tyler Duncan, Keith Mitchell
9:02 a.m. Christiaan Bezuidenhout, Doc Redman, Matthias Schwab
9:13 a.m. Troy Merritt, James Hahn, Max McGreevy
9:24 a.m. Dylan Frittelli, Russell Knox, Taylor Pendrith
9:35 a.m. Kevin Tway, S.Y. Noh, Zecheng Dou
9:46 a.m. Brent Grant, Noah Hofman, Sam Bennett
9:57 a.m. Michael Gligic, Eric Rolland, Caleb VanArragon (a)
1:10 p.m. Ben Martin, Kevin Streelman, Taylor Montgomery
1:21 p.m. Satoshi Kodaira, Chad Collins, Hank Lebioda
1:32 p.m. Nate Lashley, C.T. Pan, Harrison Endycott
1:43 p.m. K.H. Lee, Cameron Young, Sahith Theegala
1:54 p.m. Justin Thomas, Joel Dahmen, Gary Woodland
2:05 p.m. Emiliano Grillo, J.T. Poston, Chris Stroud
2:16 p.m. Will Gordon, Andrew Novak, Austin Smotherman
2:27 p.m. Scott Piercy, Brice Garnett, David Hearn
2:38 p.m. Patton Kizzire, Austin Cook, Sean O’Hair
2:49 p.m. Michael Kim, Kevin Chappell, Jonathan Byrd
3 p.m. Erik van Rooyen, Ryan Moore, Alex Gaugert
3:11 p.m. Ludvig Aberg, Peter Kuest, Ryan Gerard
3:22 p.m. Trevor Cone, Tano Goya, Derek Hitchner

10th tee

Time Players
7:45 a.m. Zac Blair, Harry Hall, Paul Haley II
7:56 a.m. Mark Hubbard, Henrik Norlander, Justin Suh
8:07 a.m. Adam Hadwin, Patrick Rodgers, Ryan Fox
8:18 a.m. Nick Hardy, Billy Horschel, Tom Hoge
8:29 a.m. Sepp Straka, Tony Finau, Hideki Matsuyama
8:40 a.m. Vincent Norrman, Mackenzie Hughes, Sungjae Im
8:51 a.m. Nico Echavarria, Cam Davis, Jim Herman
9:02 a.m. Brian Stuard, Alex Noren, Sam Stevens
9:13 a.m. Grayson Murray, Nick Watney, Brandon Wu
9:24 a.m. Aaron Baddeley, Chesson Hadley, Callum Tarren
9:35 a.m. Martin Trainer, Lee Hodges, Justin Lower
9:46 a.m. Augusto Núñez, Kyle Westmoreland, Frankie Capan III
9:57 a.m. Scott Harrington, Trevor Werbylo, Thomas Lehman
1:10 p.m. Cody Gribble, Beau Hossler, Tyson Alexander
1:21 p.m. Cameron Percy, Eric Cole, Dylan Wu
1:32 p.m. Matt NeSmith, Carson Young, Kevin Yu
1:43 p.m. J.J. Spaun, Garrick Higgo, Lanto Griffin
1:54 p.m. Trey Mullinax, Chad Ramey, Andrew Landry
2:05 p.m. Robert Streb, Brian Gay, Charley Hoffman
2:16 p.m. Stephan Jaeger, Greyson Sigg, Davis Thompson
2:27 p.m. Ryan Armour, Aaron Rai, David Lipsky
2:38 p.m. Ryan Palmer, Adam Long, Ben Taylor
2:49 p.m. Jason Dufner, Peter Malnati, Harry Higgs
3 p.m. MJ Daffue, Brandon Matthews, Kevin Roy
3:11 p.m. Carl Yuan, Matti Schmid, Kaito Onishi
3:22 p.m. Nicolai Hojgaard, Daniel Gale, Preston Summerhays (a)

How to watch

You can watch Golf Channel for free on fuboTV. ESPN+ is the exclusive home for PGA Tour Live streaming. All times Eastern.

Thursday, July 27

TV

Golf Channel: 4-7 p.m.

Radio

SiriusXM: 1-7 p.m.

STREAM

ESPN+: 7:45 a.m.-7 p.m.
Peacock: 4-7 p.m.

Friday, July 28

TV

Golf Channel: 4-7 p.m.

Radio

SiriusXM: 1-7 p.m.

STREAM

ESPN+: 7:45 a.m.-7 p.m.
Peacock: 4-7 p.m.

Saturday, July 29

TV

Golf Channel: 1-3 p.m.
CBS: 3-6 p.m.

Radio

SiriusXM: 1-6 p.m.

STREAM

ESPN+: 8 a.m.-6 p.m.
Peacock: 1-3 p.m.

Sunday, July 30

TV

Golf Channel: 1-3 p.m.
CBS: 3-6 p.m.

Radio

SiriusXM: 1-6 p.m.

STREAM

ESPN+: 8 a.m.-6 p.m.
Peacock: 1-3 p.m.

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2023 3M Open odds, course history and picks to win

Poston has two T-6 finishes in his last three starts and tied for 11th at the 3M Open last year.

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After the year’s final men’s major championship, the PGA Tour is back stateside for the 2023 3M Open at TPC Twin Cities in Blaine, Minnesota.

Tony Finau, who has missed the cut in two straight starts including last week’s Open, enters as the defending champion. He beat Emiliano Grillo and Sungjae Im by three shots last season.

Justin Thomas has fallen to 24th in the Official World Golf Ranking and 75th in the FedEx Cup Standings. In a last-second push to make the playoffs — and to make Ryder Cup Captain Zach Johnson’s job easier for Rome — Thomas is making his 3M Open debut. In his last six starts, Thomas has missed four cuts, tied for 60th at the Genesis Scottish Open and for ninth at the Travelers Championship. The top 70 players in the point standings make it to the FedEx St. Jude Championship in Memphis (Aug. 10-13).

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Golf course

TPC Twin Cities | Par 71 | 7,431 yards

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The second hole at TPC Twin Cities in Blaine, Minnesota. (Photo: David Berding-USA TODAY Sports)

Course history

Betting preview

Defending champion Tony Finau, Justin Thomas highlight field for 3M Open

Check out who’s headed to Minnesota next week.

As the final men’s major championship of the year heads to the weekend at Royal Liverpool, we look ahead to next week as the PGA Tour heads to Blaine, Minnesota, for the 2023 3M Open.

Tony Finau enters the week as the defending champion thanks to his three-shot win over Sungjae Im and Emiliano Grillo last season. Finau has won twice already this season at the Houston Open and Mexico Open. However, after missing the cut at the Open, Finau has now missed two consecutive weekends (Rocket Mortgage Classic).

Other notable names heading to Minnesota include Justin Thomas, Hideki Matsuyama, Cameron Young, Im, Gary Woodland and Billy Horschel.

Here’s the full field for next week’s 3M Open at TPC Twin Cities.

Phil, JT among 10 notable golfers who missed cut at 2023 British Open

Take a look at the notables heading home early.

HOYLAKE, England — It’s a silly game, isn’t?

If you had Brian Harman running away with the Claret Jug and four top-20-ranked pros heading home on Friday, well, congratulations.

Royal Liverpool is living up to the hype as a tough, old-school links layout that has stood the test of time. Defending champion Cameron Smith closed with an eagle to jump to 2-over 144 and move to the right side of the cutline — which came at 3-over 145 —  and world No. 1 Scottie Scheffler needed to produce a sublime bunker shot at 18 to make birdie and make the cut on the number (extending his streak of consecutive made cuts on Tour to 22, the third-longest active streak).

All told, these 12 players made the cut in all four majors this season: Patrick Cantlay, Tommy Fleetwood, Ryan Fox, Tyrrell Hatton, Viktor Hovland, Brooks Koepka, Hideki Matsuyama, Jon Rahm, Patrick Reed, Xander Schauffele, Scheffler and Smith.

Half the fun is over, but half the fun is still to come. The bad weather, which is expected over the weekend, should make whoever is destined to be the Champion Golfer of the Year to have earned the moniker in spades.

Open Championship 2023: Leaderboard, tee times, hole-by-hole

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The field has been trimmed to the top 70 and ties, with 76 players advancing to the weekend and within 13 strokes of the lead. Let’s take a closer look at some of the notables who were sent packing from the 151st British Open.

Ryder Cup captain Zach Johnson gives vote of confidence for Justin Thomas

“I don’t want to put him in this position. I hate even having to hope for a pick.”

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HOYLAKE, England — Justin Thomas may be struggling with his game, but it hasn’t scared U.S. Ryder Cup captain Zach Johnson from wanting him on his 12-man team to represent the Stars and Stripes in Rome in late September. Johnson called him “one of the best there is,” among American Ryder Cup players.

“As a friend and roommate, I’m concerned just because he’s my buddy and I know what he’s capable of and that sort of thing,” Johnson said on Friday after his second round at the British Open at Royal Liverpool. “I might be slightly concerned, like I said, as a friend, but I’m not worried about him because I know what he does and I know what he’s capable of.”

Thomas, 30, is mired in the worst slump of his career. He is winless since last year’s PGA Championship and is in danger of failing to qualify for the FedEx Cup playoffs after missing the cut at the British Open. Thomas shot an opening-round 11-over 82, tying his worst score of his PGA Tour career, and signed for 71 on Friday.

Open Championship 2023: Leaderboard, tee times, hole-by-hole

“Making two doubles and a quad, that’s eight year old, nine-year old kind of stuff, not someone who’s trying to win a British Open. You just can’t do stuff like that,” he said. “But I’ll be good.”

That followed an 81 in the second round of the U.S. Open last month, and marks the third of four majors this year that Thomas had the weekend off. Thomas likely will need to play the 3M Open next week and depending on his performance, the Wyndham Championship, which is the final FedEx Cup regular-season event – only the top 70 qualify for the playoffs and he entered the week No. 75.

“I want to make the Ryder Cup more than anything,” Thomas said. “I’m probably honestly trying too hard to do it. It reminds me a lot of my first or second year on Tour. I’ve tried so hard to make that team for the first time. I’m in a very similar position. I’ve been trying to make it easy on Zach and get in the top six, but I seem to not want to do that with my golf. Have a couple events left to try to get in the playoffs and then make a little bit of a run and try to prove a point.”

Nevertheless, Johnson remained resolute that Thomas, who has been a stalwart on the last two Ryder Cup teams and a deadly combo with Jordan Spieth, would be on the team regardless of his recent form. Thomas is 6-2-1 in his two Ryder Cups, the best record of any American golfer to play in at least two, and a combined 6-0-0 in four-ball at the Ryder Cup and Presidents Cup.

“Bottom line is this game is really hard. There’s going to be peaks. There’s going to be some valleys. Let’s hope whatever sort of non-peak he’s in, it’s short,” Johnson said. “I know he’s got a great team. I love his coaches. I love how he works. He’s a worker. Guys with talent like that that work and aren’t afraid to put their work in the dirt, if you will, not to be cliche, typically find it. It’s just a matter of when, not if. He’s too darned good.”

Johnson and Thomas were sharing a house this week and Johnson saw him ever-so-briefly.

“He was walking, had his head high,” Johnson said. “The kid doesn’t quit…(The Ryder Cup) fuels him. You can tell he wants to be there.”

Johnson has had enough highs and lows during his career that he can relate to what Thomas is going through.

“It stinks, because you’re working and you’re not seeing the fruits of your labour, so to speak. But you’ve got to keep the perspective,” Johnson said. “It’s almost like you’ve got to take two or three steps forward, then you might take a couple steps back, and after that it’s like you’re on an escalator… Yeah, I think it’s a brutal animal, man, and you can’t tame it sometimes, and other times it just feels like it’s sitting right in your lap.”

Asked what he will do to convince Johnson to pick him if he doesn’t make the team, Thomas said, “It’s not like I’m going to write him a love letter or anything. I mean, yeah, I would like to think that my record is my best argument. I love the team events. I thrive in them. I just enjoy it. Playing with a partner could kind of ease me a little bit, relax me.

“Yeah, like I said, I don’t want to put him in this position. I hate even having to hope for a pick. This is the first time since I first qualified that I’ve had to rely on a captain’s pick, and it’s not fun, especially when you’re trending the wrong way when other people are trending toward it.”

With a 10, 9 and a few 8s, 18th proving difficult closing hole at Royal Liverpool

Don’t mess with the 18th hole.

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Taichi Kho was in one of the greenside bunkers on Royal Liverpool’s closing par 5 in two shots Thursday during the first round of the 2023 Open Championship.

It took him eight shots (with a penalty stroke in there) to get the ball in the cup. Nearly pin high in two shots, eight more before he was walking of the green.

The 18th at Royal Liverpool is proving to be one of the more difficult closing holes in recent major championship history, and it looks as if it could provide a huge swing down the stretch on Sunday.

Kho wasn’t spared, carding a 10.

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The shot sequence on the 18th hole at Royal Liverpool for Taichi Kho during the first round, when he recorded a 10 on the hole. (Photo: The Open)

Then there was Justin Thomas, a two-time major champion, who had a 9 on the hole. No surprise that those two are bringing up the rear on the leaderboard.

The 18th can be a beast of a par 5, but it is ranked the 12th most difficult hole this week. Still there are opportunities for birdies with two good shots.

Open Championship 2023: Leaderboard, tee times, hole-by-hole

Jorge Campillo, in the second-to-last group, carded an 8. Phil Mickelson also added an ocho. Then there was Rickie Fowler, who stepped on the tee at 2 under and walked off the green 1 over with an 8. In the final group, Seungsu Han was 2 over for the day stepping on the 18th tee and made a triple-bogey.

How they fared

  • Seungsu Han, 76
  • Phil Mickelson, 77
  • Justin Thomas, 82
  • Jorge Campillo, 82
  • Taichi Kho, 83

But why is it so tough?

First, there’s internal out of bounds lining the entire right side of the fairway, from near the tee box and all the way to the green. The out of bounds only a few feet from the fairway, meaning anything right could be in trouble.

At the green, there are five greenside bunkers, three on the left and two right. Those on the left proved disastrous Thursday, perhaps a preview of what’s to come down the stretch.

The first-round scoring average was 5.12. While 28 percent of players made birdie or better, 22 percent made bogey or worse. The percentage of time someone in the sand got it up-and-down? 25 percent.

Kho and Thomas were major victims to the difficult 18th on Thursday. Meanwhile, co-leaders Christo Lamprecht and Emiliano Grillo made birdie on the hole. The fellow leader, Tommy Fleetwood, carded a par. Rory McIlroy closed with a tremendous par after needing two shots to escape a greenside bunker.

Good shots are rewarded, but any golfer who is off just a bit could have a sour taste in their mouth the rest of the day.

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Justin Thomas hit the worst chip shot right into an Open pot bunker

Not great!

Oof. It hasn’t been the best of years for Justin Thomas.

And his first round at the British Open? Not great.

There was one shot in particular that stood out. He was right behind one of those super tough pot bunkers at Royal Liverpool — ones that golfers like Christo Lamprecht have had to navigate — and he tried to go over it, which is probably the right move.

But, oops. He went too short with it, the ball hit the top of the bunker and in it went.

The Open Championship: Live leaderboard, Schedule, Tee times

This isn’t fun for him:

The best 8 groupings for first two rounds of 2023 Open Championship

These groups are loaded.

The final men’s major championship of the year is here, as the best players in the world have descended upon Royal Liverpool for the 2023 Open Championship.

The last time the world of golf was at Hoylake was nine years ago when Rory McIlroy earned the title of 2014 Champion Golfer of the Year. McIlroy enters the week in great form with six straight top-10 finishes including a win at last week’s Genesis Scottish Open.

The reigning Open champion, however, is Cam Smith, who chased down McIlroy at the Old Course last season. Smith also won in his last start at LIV Golf London.

Here are eight of the best groupings for the first two rounds of the Open Championship. All tee times listed are Eastern Standard Time (Hoylake is five hours ahead).

Open Championship 2023: Leaderboard, scores, news, tee times, more

Justin Thomas sells Florida home for $3.1 million, more than doubling his money on the property

Thomas, 29, paid $1.48 million for the home at 5745 Pennock Point Road in Jupiter, according to Palm Beach County property records.

He didn’t get the price he was asking for, but former World No. 1 Justin Thomas sold his South Florida home that sits down the street from buddy Rickie Fowler.

The two-time major champion, who recently upgraded to an estate in Tequesta, listed his home in Jupiter for $3.65 million, more than twice what he bought it for in 2016.

The home was purchased last week for $3.1 million.

Thomas, 29, paid $1.48 million for the home at 5745 Pennock Point Road in Jupiter, according to Palm Beach County property records. Built in 2008, it has four bedrooms, 5 1/2 baths. He purchased the home as he was establishing himself as one of the PGA Tour’s young, rising stars. Thomas won five Tour events during the 2016-17 season, including his first major, the PGA Championship at Quail Hollow.

The home is 7,983 square feet, 5,445 under air, and the estimated taxes are $21,757 a month. It has no direct access to the Loxahatchee River.

The house is on the same street as one owned by Fowler, one of Thomas’ closest friends, and in the same area is dozens of professional golfers from the PGA Tour and LIV Golf League.

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Justin Thomas’ house was built in 2008

Thomas purchased a newly-built home on the Loxahatchee River in October for $13.45 million. It has 7,600 square feet with 100 feet fronting the Loxahatchee River. Thomas’ purchase came after he won the PGA Championship at Southern Hills, defeating Will Zalatoris in a playoff.

A 15-time winner on the PGA Tour, Thomas is currently is No. 20 in the Official World Golf Rankings.

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‘It’s done’ – Spieth confirms he and Thomas are Leeds minority owners

“The 49ers beat my Cowboys every year, so if you can’t beat ’em, join ’em!”

Jordan Spieth has confirmed that he and fellow golf star Justin Thomas have completed a deal to become minority owners in Leeds United.

Spieth added that Rickie Fowler, who confirmed the trio’s interest in the Championship club last month, has pulled out of the deal.

Following its relegation from the Premier League, Leeds was taken over by 49ers Enterprises, the investment arm of the NFL’s San Francisco 49ers.

Spieth said that although he’d prefer to be getting involved with a Premier League team, he’s confident that the 49ers group has the ability to succeed in its stewardship of Leeds.

“Relegation wasn’t ideal, but we got involved with the 49ers group about purchasing a larger share and getting in with them doing things so successfully as they do everywhere they’ve touched,” Spieth told Sky Sports News.

“We thought it would be a cool opportunity. It’s a big city, historic club, great venue in Elland Road, and once we looked into it we realized it could be really exciting.

“They (the 49ers) renegotiated after relegation and it was possibly a better deal — as long as they can get promoted soon.