The PGA Tour’s annual stop in Minnesota — the 3M Open — is headed back to Blaine for another five years.
The Tour and Maplewood-based 3M will extend the company’s title sponsorship starting in 2026 through 2030, the PGA Tour announced Monday morning.
3M has been a partner of the PGA Tour tournament since the first 3M Open was played at TPC Twin Cities in 2019. That was the first year in an original seven-year deal that brought a PGA Tour event back to Minnesota for the first time since the 1960s.
The 3M Open has been played in Blaine since then, including the 2020 event played in the COVID-19 pandemic without fans in attendance.
The 3M Open replaced the 3M Championship, a PGA Tour Champions tournament for golfers 50 and older. That event started in 1993 and had been held at TPC Twin Cities since 2001.
The 3M Open began in 2019 over Fourth of July weekend. It was won by rookie Matthew Wolff in a suspenseful finish over rising star Bryson DeChambeau and college sensation Collin Morikawa.
The tournament date moved thereafter to late July, the week after the British Open on the tour schedule.
It will be held July 21-27 this summer, with 2024 champion Jhonattan Vegas , a one-shot winner, expected to defend his title. It will be televised on CBS/Paramount+, Golf Channel, ESPN+ and distributed internationally by the tour as well.
