Please use Chrome browser for a extra accessible video participant Highlights from the primary spherical of the 3M Open from TPC Twin Cities in Blaine Highlights from the primary spherical of the 3M Open from TPC Twin Cities in Blaine
Lee Hodges, after lacking the lower in three of his final 4 occasions, shot a bogey-free, eight-under-par 63 to carry the lead on the 3M Open when play was suspended on Thursday in Blaine, Minnesota.
Twenty-one gamers had been nonetheless on the course when play was referred to as for the night time attributable to inclement climate. They’ll full their rounds on Friday morning.
Hodges, 28, is searching for his first win on the PGA Tour since becoming a member of full-time in 2022.
He began on the again 9 at TPC Twin Cities with three straight birdies en path to a four-under 32, then added birdies at holes one, two, six and 7 for eight in whole.
On his first gap, the par-four tenth, Hodges hit his strategy shot 132 yards to a few inches from the cup. The following gap concluded together with his putt of 32 toes, seven inches for birdie.
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“I have been getting off to some poor begins, which I want I knew why. I would repair it if I knew,” Hodges stated. “Yeah, right now was nice. To see that wedge shot go to an inch on the primary gap after which make that 40-footer on the second gap, I used to be like, all proper, right here we go, may as effectively make a number of birdies if we’re gonna make a pair.”
A four-way tie for second at seven-under 64 options Japan’s Hideki Matsuyama, Brandt Snedeker, Tyler Duncan and Kevin Streelman.
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Matsuyama additionally went bogey-free with seven birdies.
“Total, it was a very good ball-striking spherical, particularly my iron play,” Matsuyama stated. “It obtained actually sizzling on the market on the again 9.”
Snedeker and Duncan additionally steered away from bogeys. Streelman bogeyed the tenth and carded an eagle in closing on the par-five 18th gap.
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Justin Suh, Nick Hardy and Argentina’s Emiliano Grillo shot six-under 65 to type a tie for sixth.
Defending champion Tony Finau is in a gaggle of 9 gamers tied for ninth at five-under 66. Finau started on the again 9 and went birdie, birdie, eagle, birdie, par, birdie to get to 6 underneath in 5 holes. The eagle on the par-five, 583-yard twelfth gap got here on a 49-foot putt.
He stated after the spherical that it’s “extremely onerous” to maintain up that tempo.
“I’d have shot 53 I feel if I had continued on the spherical I used to be going,” Finau stated. “Not fairly the case.”
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Finau bogeyed the par-four second and seventh holes earlier than making a birdie on the eighth to get again to 5 underneath.
“Properly, I did not miss a shot for the primary seven holes, actually,” Finau stated.
“That was a fairly sizzling begin, it was a pleasant strategy to begin my title defence this week and type of calmed my nerves.
“It was a loopy day on the market. I obtained off to a blazing begin and felt like I could not miss a shot, could not miss a putt. Then I missed some putts, missed some pictures and I ended up ending fairly properly on the finish. It was a loopy day. As we all know, this recreation could be that manner. However I used to be joyful simply to put up the rating that I did for my title defence first spherical.”
Two-time main champion Justin Thomas opened with a two-under 69 on his match debut. Thomas is trying to earn sufficient factors for the FedEx Cup Playoffs in addition to Ryder Cup consideration.