The 38-year-old Queenslander missed the \u200ccut at The Open last week and pulled out during the first round of \u200cthe \u200cUS \u2060Open on June 18, again with an injured back.<\/p>\n
The 3M withdrawal is a setback for the former world No.1, who is currently 72nd in the FedEx Cup standings with just three events remaining in the PGA Tour’s regular season.<\/p>\n
Day, a 13-time winner \u2060on \u200cthe PGA \u200bTour, has managed just two top-10 finishes this season and sits 56th in the Official World Golf Rankings.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Veteran Charley Hoffman has replaced him in the field \u200bfor \u200bthe \u200b3M Open, which begins on Thursday \u200cat TPC Twin Cities in Blaine, Minnesota.<\/p>\n
Scottie Scheffler headlines as a debutant and continues the trend of playing the week following a major championship in 2026. He is the first world No.1 to compete at the event since Brooks Koepka in 2019.<\/p>\n
Scheffler, the No.1 player in the FedExCup standings, lost in a play-off both at the RBC Heritage after the Masters and at the Travelers Championship the week after the US Open.<\/p>\n
Coming off a tied fourth-place finish at The Open, he said he has added the 3M to his calendar because he didn’t want to take time off with the Tour playoffs looming next month.<\/p>\n
Scheffler’s fellow American, Kurt Kitayama, returns to defend the title he bagged last year with a one-shot victory over countryman Sam Stevens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 38-year-old Queenslander missed the \u200ccut at The Open last week and pulled out during the first round…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":817513,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-817512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=817512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/817513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=817512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=817512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=817512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}