{"id":31831,"date":"2025-07-23T18:31:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T18:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/31831\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T18:31:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T18:31:10","slug":"troy-merritt-finds-himself-in-between-statuses-as-hes-home-for-the-3m-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/31831\/","title":{"rendered":"Troy Merritt finds himself in between statuses as he\u2019s \u2018home\u2019 for the 3M Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rt-Text\">A year later, he finished 125th on the PGA Tour, the last spot to earn playing rights. He\u2019s won twice on the Tour: beating Rickie Fowler by three strokes in 2015 in the Quicken Loans tournament, and the Barbasol by a stroke over Billy Horschel and others in 2018.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">He lost the Rocket Mortgage event in the Detroit area in a playoff in 2021. That same year, he shared the lead with Fowler with opening 64s at the 3M Open. They both ended up down the leaderboard as long-hitting Cameron Champ won the tournament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">Four years later, the PGA Tour has changed greatly, with competition from LIV creating eight big-money \u201cdesignated\u201d tournaments for the top 70 players on the PGA Tour. At the same time, Merritt slipped to \u201cconditional\u201d status on the Tour in 2025 for the first time, which has caused him to do most of his playing on the DP Tour \u2014 the hybrid European Tour that has tournaments in Africa, Asia and the Middle East, as well as Europe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">\u201cDP\u201d is a reference to Dubai Ports, which is where that Tour winds up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">\u201cThe designated tournaments have changed the PGA Tour tremendously,\u201d said Merritt, 39. \u201cI thought I\u2019d be able to split time between the DP and the PGA Tour, but with conditional status, it\u2019s very difficult to get in a weekly tournament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rt-Text\">\u201cI\u2019ve been all over different continents with the DP, and the family can\u2019t travel. It\u2019s pricey, but it\u2019s also that the boys don\u2019t have passports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A year later, he finished 125th on the PGA Tour, the last spot to earn playing rights. He\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31832,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-31831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}