3M extends title sponsorship of PGA Tour event in Blaine through 2030

The PGA Tour’s annual stop in Minnesota — the 3M Open — is headed back to Blaine for another five years.

The Tour and Maplewood-based 3M will extend the company’s title sponsorship starting in 2026 through 2030, the PGA Tour announced Monday morning.

3M has been a partner of the PGA Tour tournament since the first 3M Open was played at TPC Twin Cities in 2019. That was the first year in an original seven-year deal that brought a PGA Tour event back to Minnesota for the first time since the 1960s.

The 3M Open has been played in Blaine since then, including the 2020 event played in the COVID-19 pandemic without fans in attendance.

The 3M Open replaced the 3M Championship, a PGA Tour Champions tournament for golfers 50 and older. That event started in 1993 and had been held at TPC Twin Cities since 2001.

The 3M Open began in 2019 over Fourth of July weekend, but since then it has been held in late July, the week after the British Open. Johnattan Vegas won last year’s tournament by one shot and is expected to defend his title this summer.

The forthcoming extension will end in 2030, a year after the PGA of America’s Ryder Cup returns to Hazeltine and the U.S.G.A.’s Women’s Open goes back to Interlachen Country Club in Edina for the 100th anniversary of the great amateur Bobby Jones’ U.S. Open victory there.

PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan in a statement praised what he called “passionate” Minnesota sports fans who support “every sport in every season, including the 3M Open from Day One.”

The 3M Open again will be played shortly before the season-ending FedExCup playoffs in August. Players on the bubble will be contending for a place in the playoffs’ 70 spots. Golfers who qualify also will be exempt for all full-field events and The Players tournament in 2026.