{"id":35784,"date":"2025-07-25T07:36:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T07:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/35784\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T07:36:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T07:36:08","slug":"adam-svensson-atop-pga-tours-3m-open-after-tourney-record-60","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/35784\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam Svensson atop PGA Tour’s 3M Open after tourney-record 60"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jul 24, 2025, 09:12 PM ET<\/p>\n

BLAINE, Minn. — Adam Svensson<\/a> made a 48-foot eagle putt on the closing hole to complete an 11-under 60 on Thursday that gave him a two-shot lead over Sam Stevens<\/a> and Thorbjorn Olesen<\/a> after one round of the 3M Open.<\/p>\n

Svensson also made nine birdies and did not drop a shot in the lowest round in the tournament’s seven-year history. He tied the TPC Twin Cities course record set by Paul Goydos<\/a> at the 2017 3M Championship on the PGA Tour Champions.<\/p>\n

Chris Gotterup<\/a>, who finished third at last week’s British Open and won the Scottish Open two weeks ago, was three shots back along with Chad Ramey<\/a> and Matthias Schmid<\/a>. Zac Blair<\/a>, Chris Kirk<\/a>, Jake Knapp<\/a> and Brendan Valdes<\/a> were another shot back, and Rickie Fowler<\/a> and Emiliano Grillo<\/a> were among those at 6 under.<\/p>\n

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Svensson’s lone tour win is the 2022 RSM Classic. The 31-year-old Canadian has one top-25 finish in 21 starts this season and has missed 11 cuts.<\/p>\n

“I had a great range session today,” said Svensson, who needed just 25 putts, including a nearly 40-foot birdie on the 11th hole and a 34-footer on the fourth. “Just really putted amazing, I made a bunch of breakers. It was probably my best putting round I ever had.”<\/p>\n

His career-best 60 is the second-lowest score on the PGA Tour this season. Knapp shot 59 at the Cognizant Classic in February.<\/p>\n

Stevens could have shot 59 with an eagle on the par-5 18th, but instead he put his second shot from 246 yards into the water in front of the green, leading to his lone bogey and a 62 that was still his lowest round on tour.<\/p>\n

“I have a pretty big gap between my 3-iron and my 3-wood, and I hit a terrible shot. I thought if I hit a 3-wood, it was just going to fly to the back of the green, and I kind of had to hit a 3-iron perfect to even cover the water. But I figured that was my best chance to shoot 59, so I gave it a go,” he said.<\/p>\n

Fowler and Grillo are among a group of 18 players who rank between 60th and 80th in the FedEx Cup standings, needing a strong performance to help secure spots in the 70-man field for the first playoff event in two weeks. Fowler entered the week at No. 63 and Grillo is No. 71.<\/p>\n

“At the end of the day, good golf solves a lot of things,” Fowler said.<\/p>\n

Patrick Rodgers<\/a> and Gary Woodland<\/a> (66th and 78th, respectively) each shot 67. No. 70 Keith Mitchell<\/a> had a 68, and 65th-ranked Cam Davis<\/a> shot 71.<\/p>\n

Defending champion Jhonattan Vegas<\/a> shot 68. Haotong Li<\/a>, who was in the final pairing with Scottie Scheffler<\/a> at last week’s British Open and finished tied for fourth, shot a 1-under 70.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jul 24, 2025, 09:12 PM ET BLAINE, Minn. — Adam Svensson made a 48-foot eagle putt on the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35785,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-35784","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\/35784","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=35784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}