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Enlightening Figures
L
egendary baseball announcer Vin Scully once said:
" Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost:
for support, not illumination. " This is sage wisdom, but
we'll conjecture that some numbers do shine brightly in the
story of the inaugural 3M Open contested at TPC Twin Cities
in Blaine last July.
The winner of that tournament was 20-year-old Matthew
Wolff, who (fresh off winning the 2019 NCAA individual title
in May) sank a 26-foot eagle putt
from the fringe of the 72nd hole
to win in his fourth PGA start. He
Winner of
the tournament
joined a star-studded list of players
from the last 80 years who've won
a PGA tour event before the age of
21: Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson,
Rory McIlroy,
Jordan Spieth, Seve
Ballesteros and Raymond Floyd.
Another adage claims that age
is just a number, and the young
Wolff played with the field's oldest
player in round three-60-yearold
Tom Lehman-who redesigned
the course. Lehman changed up the
par-5 finishing hole and predicted
fireworks there in the summer issue
of Minnesota Golfer magazine: " You
will still see eagles and a lot of birdies,
but you're going to see more balls in
the water and more bogeys-maybe
even a double or two. "
Perhaps the best example of that
" wide variety of scores " on No. 18
was world No. 1 Brooks Koepka, who
made birdie,
triple bogey, double
20
yeard-old
Matthew Wolff
Eagles
PAR-4
* BY JOSEPH OBERLE *
The first 3M Open at TPC Twin Cities provided plenty of new
numbers to examine.
reward No. 18.
The toughest hole on the course, however, was the par-4 No.
9, which exacted an average cumulative score of 4.279. (The
par-4 No. 2 was the hardest in rounds three and four.) Cameron
Davis made a triple bogey at hole number 9 at the end of round
two, which moved the cutline from 4-under to 3-under and
allowed four major winners to play on the weekend (Koepka,
Lucas Glover, Jason Day and Jimmy Walker). The easiest hole
of the tournament was the par-5 12th
hole with a scoring average of 4.444.
Perhaps that hole will be toughened
during the second phase of course
redesign, which began following the
event's conclusion.
Conventional wisdom coming
Tournament's
oldest player
60
yeard-old
Tom Lehman
Made on hole number 18
36 63 18
9 12
PAR-5
Toughest hole on the
course
4.279
Average cumulative
score
bogey and eagle on the hole-with
three balls finishing in the bottom of the expanded pond fronting
the green. The other big draw of the tournament, Mickelson,
also made triple on hole number 18 with two balls in the drink.
He recorded seven penalty shots in the first round on his way
to missing the cut. There were 36 eagles, 63 double bogeys and
18 others (triples or worse) made on the exciting new risk-and6
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Easiest hole on the
course
4.444
Average cumulative
score
Double Bogeys Triples or worse
into the 3M Open held that the PGA
Tour pros would eat up TPC Twin
Cities, and with a winning score of 21
strokes under par for Wolff (and two
others at 20-under) the pros did go
low. All 73 competitors who played
four rounds finished the tournament
under par, and 52 of them were in
double-digit red numbers. But rainy
conditions contributed to the low
scores, which included 44 bogey-free
rounds for the week.
Since this was the first tournament
on a new course, records (which are
made to be broken, so they say) were
set and tied-most importantly,
the lowest 18-hole score of 9-under
62. There was one of those in each
round (Scott Piercy-who finished
T-15,
Bryson DeChambeau-T-2
and Glover-T-7), including one in the third by Wolff, who
shot that bogey-free round playing next to Lehman-someone
with plenty of course insight.
" Today, I was kind of rolling, " Wolff said of course-recordtying
62. " I didn't feel like I needed to ask him for much [help]. "
Thus, youth needs no expert illumination for support.
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