{"id":824298,"date":"2026-07-26T05:16:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T05:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/824298\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T05:16:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T05:16:25","slug":"3m-open-jackson-koivun-leads-pga-tour-scottie-scheffler-frustrated-with-bogey-pga-tour-latest-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/824298\/","title":{"rendered":"3M Open: Jackson Koivun leads PGA Tour, Scottie Scheffler frustrated with bogey, PGA Tour latest news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>World number one Scottie Scheffler surged with an eagle and five birdies on the back nine at the PGA Tour 3M Open on Saturday but faces an uphill battle to catch rookie leader Jackson Koivun.<\/p>\n<p>Four-time major winner Scheffler had been seven shots behind overnight leader Michael Kim at the turn on day three of the event at TPC Twin Cities in Blaine, Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the biggest Aussie sports &amp; the best from overseas LIVE on Kayo Sports | New to Kayo? <a href=\"https:\/\/kayosports.com.au\/en-AU\/welcome?extcamp=fsaeditoriallinkgeneric-edt-fsp-lnk-awr-grc-grc-kyo&amp;channel=fsa&amp;campaign=fsacontra\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Join now and get your first month for just $1.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img class=\"i-amphtml-fill-content i-amphtml-replaced-content\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/poster-fallback.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Scheffler admitted he had given himself a talking-to that featured language \u201cI shouldn\u2019t repeat if it\u2019s being recorded,\u201d after his bogey on nine.<\/p>\n<p>Figuring he \u201cneeded to make as many birdies as I could coming in,\u201d Scheffler suddenly hit a hot streak and carded a seven-under par 64 to finish on 14-under, tied for the clubhouse lead among early finishers.<\/p>\n<p>Scheffler predicted he would \u201cneed another low number tomorrow if I want to keep the pace\u201d on the final day.<\/p>\n<p>It has been a year of consistently fine golf but multiple frustrating near-misses for Scheffler.<\/p>\n<p> He has won just one tournament, the American Express in January, despite multiple runner-up finishes, and no majors.<\/p>\n<p>To win on Sunday, he will need to reel in Koivun, a 21-year-old Californian college prodigy who only made his first PGA Tour start this month following the US Open.<\/p>\n<p>He posted a superb round of 61 featuring eagles on the 12th and 18th. <\/p>\n<p>Koivun set a course back-nine record by going eight-under from the turn, including two eagles, to sit three clear atop the leaderboard on 20-under.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI definitely grew up looking up to some (of these) players, but it\u2019s definitely a mental change that now they\u2019re my competitors,\u201d said Koivun.<\/p>\n<p>Scheffler is \u201cobviously the best in the world for a reason and I\u2019m sure he\u2019s going to go up there and put a good number and get in contention,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"World number one Scottie Scheffler surged with an eagle and five birdies on the back nine at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":824299,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-824298","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\/824298","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=824298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/824299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}