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A healthy, rejuvenated Jhonattan Vegas returns to Twin Cities to defend his 3M Open title
Golf is one of the few sports where it's never too late for a career resurgence. The game has seen countless players find success early, stumble along the way, suffer injuries and setbacks, then burst back onto the scene with a win no one was expecting. Does the 2019 Masters ring a bell? Tiger Woods' defeat of father time at Augusta six years ago is certainly the most notable example of a resurgence in golf, but there's another player who's revisiting his own instance of jumpstarting a career that was thought to be sliding away. Jhonattan Vegas is back in Blaine, Minnesota at TPC Twin Cities for the 2025 3M Open, where he enters as the defending champion after a thrilling one-shot victory over Max Greyserman a year ago. Vegas did so while playing on a medical exemption after suffering a shoulder injury that kept him out of competition for nearly the entire 2022-23 season. But he fought back, and now the 40-year-old from Maturin, Venezuela, native gears up for this year's rendition of the 3M Open in an entirely different headspace than a year ago. "Last year, when I was coming back from shoulder surgery and I was just kind of getting back into the grind of things, didn't really have a clue kind of where my game was and how it was developing week after week," Vegas said in his pre-tournament press conference Wednesday. "But obviously, a year later, I feel like I come in a way better position physically, mentally, everything is there just to make a really good run here at the end of the season. Like I said, a lot more focus on playing good golf than just trying to get my body ready to play." The win at the 2024 3M Open, which was his fourth career victory on Tour but his first since 2017, wasn't a flash in the pan. He's followed it up with several solid performances in 2025, including a solo fourth at The Sentry in January and a T-5 at the PGA Championship at Quail Hollow — his best career finish in a major by far. Those outings, along with three other top-25 finishes, have him sitting safely inside the top-70 cutoff to qualify for the FedEx Cup Playoffs, for now. He's No. 53 in the standings as he tees it up in the Twin Cities. Because of that newly-implemented top 70 threshold, late-season tournaments like the 3M Open are starting to get improved fields due to the fact that more players need points. This week's field includes Chris Gotterup, Wyndham Clark, Rickie Fowler and Haotong Li — who all placed in the top 15 at the Open Championship this past weekend — as well as Adam Scott, Max Homa and Sungjae Im. Not to mention three other past 3M Open winners, Lee Hodges, Cameron Champ and Tony Finau. "I mean, these tournaments are so important right now. I was talking to some other players early on where it doesn't matter where you are in the standings right now, you're always fighting for something," said Vegas, who didn't play in the Open. "[These] few tournaments at the end of the season mean a lot, so it's great to see a great field for a great tournament here, the sponsor deserves it, to have a great field. "And it's fun. Like I said, everyone is ready for the playoffs so we're all pushing with the pedal down and just kind of hoping for a good finish." Unlike most other PGA Tour events where the previous year's champion appears for a media day a few weeks ahead of the tournament, Wednesday was the local media's first look at Vegas since Sunday at the 2024 3M Open. Why? "My dad turned 70 about a month ago, and at the beginning of the year we made a trip for that week to go to Scotland and play golf," Vegas said. "He's never been, he's never played golf over there, so we wanted to give that experience to my dad. Unfortunately, it was the same week as media day, so you know, family first." Vegas tees off in the first round of the 2025 3M Open on Thursday at 1:54 p.m. ET along with Haotong Li and Sam Burns. This article originally appeared on Golfweek: 3M Open 2025: Jhonattan Vegas returns to defend title
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Who's on Jack Nicklaus' golf Mount Rushmore? Sorry, Arnold Palmer
Whose faces would be carved into gold's Mount Rushmore if Jack Nicklaus made the final call? Well, obviously, his own likeness would be among the four. The other three, according to a recently resurfaced video on Twitter, would belong to Bobby Jones, Ben Hogan and Tiger Woods. Sorry, Arnie. More: How did Memorial Tournament, Muirfield Village get their names? Jack Nicklaus explains Arnold Palmer, Nicklaus' longtime friend and rival, didn't make the legendary golfer's personal cut. The video was originally shot for Golf Digest in August 2024 and was recently repurposed by a popular Twitter account called Official Tour Pro. Nicklaus, 85, became close friends with Palmer, his rival, while they and Gary Player dominated the sport in the 1960s to help golf gain popularity in the U.S. Palmer, who died in 2016 at age 87, won 62 PGA Tour titles and still ranks fifth in all-time victories behind Sam Snead, Woods, Nicklaus and Hogan. Jones, who co-founded the Masters Tournament and Augusta National Golf Club where it's played, played only as an amateur while making his living as an attorney. He's considered the greatest amateur player who's ever lived. Nicklaus, meanwhile, won 117 professional tournaments, including 73 PGA wins plus a record 18 major championships. That's three more majors than Woods, who's still playing. Nicklaus also fronts one of the world's leading golf course design and construction firms, Nicklaus Design, and has designed numerous courses – including Muirfield Village in Dublin that hosts the annual Memorial Tournament. Nicklaus has also inspired a line of ice cream flavors plus Golden Bear Lemonade, but neither has a spot on the Mount Rushmore of golf-inspired food/beverage items next to the tasty half lemonade/half iced tea mixture known as an Arnold Palmer. Blue Jackets reporter Brian Hedger can be reached at bhedger@ and @ This article originally appeared on The Columbus Dispatch: Tiger Woods makes Jack Nicklaus' golf Mount Rushmore. Who made the cut?
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Charlie Woods out at US Junior Amateur Championship
Charlie Woods did not qualify to move on to the match play rounds at the U.S. Junior Amateur Championship in Dallas. The 16-year-old son of Tiger Woods shot rounds of 81 and 74 for a 14-over 155 during stroke play on Monday and Tuesday. Match play began on Wednesday morning. The tournament began with 264 players taking part in stroke play at Trinity Forest Golf Club and Brook Hollow Golf Club. The field was narrowed to the top 64 for match play. One of those advancing was Cameron Kuchar, the son of PGA Tour pro Matt Kuchar. He finished the two-day stroke play at 3-over par 144, which was the cut line. Kuchar is a rising high school senior in Florida who has committed to play at TCU. He was competing against Kailer Stone of Alameda, Calif., in match play on Wednesday. Stone, 17, finished stroke play T13 at 1-under. The younger Woods is a rising high school junior. His first round at Brook Hollow was marred by four double bogeys and five bogeys with just two birdies to offset them. In his second round at Trinity Forest, he played the front nine at even par with three birdies and bogeys but lost three strokes on the back nine with two double bogeys and three bogeys with two birdies. Tiger Woods was in Dallas to watch his son play. Charlie Woods will have other chances to play in the U.S. Junior Amateur, seeking to join an impressive list of winners who went on to become majors champions. That list includes Johnny Miller (1964), David Duval (1989), Tiger Woods (1991-93), Brian Harman (2003), Jordan Spieth (2009, 2011) and Scottie Scheffler (2013). Tiger Woods was 15 when he won his first Junior Amateur. The younger Woods missed the cut last year at the tournament at Oakland Hills in Michigan.
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Tiger Woods' Former Coach Show Ultimate Respect To Scottie Scheffler
Tiger Woods' Former Coach Show Ultimate Respect To Scottie Scheffler originally appeared on The Spun. Scottie Scheffler has competed in 25 majors and has now won four of them and he's now just one U.S. Open win from completing the vaunted career Grand Slam. Scheffler has received - and deserves - endless praise for his accomplishments on the golf greens. But for Tiger Woods' former coach, there's an even higher level of praise he's earned. Appearing on SiriusXM PGA TOUR Radio, Woods' former coach Butch Harmon had some of the highest possible praise for Scheffler. Amid a discussion comparing Scheffler to his iconic pupil, Harmon declared that Scheffler is the closest thing he's seen to the golf GOAT himself, Jack Nicklaus. "I got to tell you that the only reason I called in, I was listening to you talk about him and all the comparisons and stuff to Tiger and this and that," Harmon said. "I think his greatest attribute that he has is he's the closest thing to Jack Nicklaus I've ever seen mentally. He makes no mental mistakes. He dumps the ball in the middle of the green when he has to. His iron control is beautiful. "He reminds me more of Jack than he does of Tiger, Tiger in the winning ways, but Jack in the way he plays golf. I've never quite seen a guy that can mimic Nicklaus the way he does." To call that high praise is a bit of an understatement. Nicklaus still holds nearly every record there is for golf's biggest events, particularly with his record for major wins. Whether or not Scheffler can continue his winning ways and someday challenge Woods, let alone Nicklaus, for the all-time major crown is a very different conversation though. Age alone might factor into the occasion. Case in point, Woods had already won eight majors by the time he reached Scheffler's age. He managed to win another six between 2005 and 2008, coming agonizingly close to winning another five between 2005 and 2009. Then the injuries started to pick up. For now, Scheffler is about 25-percent of the way towards challenging the marks set by Woods and Nicklaus. Unless someone else emerges as a true rival over the next few years, he may be even closer by the end of Woods' Former Coach Show Ultimate Respect To Scottie Scheffler first appeared on The Spun on Jul 23, 2025 This story was originally reported by The Spun on Jul 23, 2025, where it first appeared.
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Woods Jnr bows out of US Junior Amateur Championship
Charlie Woods has failed to qualify for the matchplay rounds at the US Junior Amateur Championship in Dallas. The 16-year-old son of golf icon Tiger Woods ended his second round at Trinity Forest GC with a three-over 74 having posted an 11-over round the previous day and meaning he missed the cut by a huge 12-stroke margin. With his father watching him in Dallas, Woods Jnr's first round at Brook Hollow was marred by four double bogeys and five bogeys with just two birdies to offset them. In his second round at Trinity Forest, he played the front nine at even par with three birdies and bogeys but lost three strokes on the back nine with two double bogeys and three bogeys with two birdies. He missed the cut last year at the tournament at Oakland Hills in Michigan. One of those advancing at the other Dallas venue for the stroke play section of the tournament, Brook Hollow, was Cameron Kuchar, the son of PGA Tour pro Matt Kuchar. He finished the stroke play competition tied on the cut line 50th place on three-over par. Charlie Woods has failed to qualify for the matchplay rounds at the US Junior Amateur Championship in Dallas. The 16-year-old son of golf icon Tiger Woods ended his second round at Trinity Forest GC with a three-over 74 having posted an 11-over round the previous day and meaning he missed the cut by a huge 12-stroke margin. With his father watching him in Dallas, Woods Jnr's first round at Brook Hollow was marred by four double bogeys and five bogeys with just two birdies to offset them. In his second round at Trinity Forest, he played the front nine at even par with three birdies and bogeys but lost three strokes on the back nine with two double bogeys and three bogeys with two birdies. He missed the cut last year at the tournament at Oakland Hills in Michigan. One of those advancing at the other Dallas venue for the stroke play section of the tournament, Brook Hollow, was Cameron Kuchar, the son of PGA Tour pro Matt Kuchar. He finished the stroke play competition tied on the cut line 50th place on three-over par. Charlie Woods has failed to qualify for the matchplay rounds at the US Junior Amateur Championship in Dallas. The 16-year-old son of golf icon Tiger Woods ended his second round at Trinity Forest GC with a three-over 74 having posted an 11-over round the previous day and meaning he missed the cut by a huge 12-stroke margin. With his father watching him in Dallas, Woods Jnr's first round at Brook Hollow was marred by four double bogeys and five bogeys with just two birdies to offset them. In his second round at Trinity Forest, he played the front nine at even par with three birdies and bogeys but lost three strokes on the back nine with two double bogeys and three bogeys with two birdies. He missed the cut last year at the tournament at Oakland Hills in Michigan. One of those advancing at the other Dallas venue for the stroke play section of the tournament, Brook Hollow, was Cameron Kuchar, the son of PGA Tour pro Matt Kuchar. He finished the stroke play competition tied on the cut line 50th place on three-over par. Charlie Woods has failed to qualify for the matchplay rounds at the US Junior Amateur Championship in Dallas. The 16-year-old son of golf icon Tiger Woods ended his second round at Trinity Forest GC with a three-over 74 having posted an 11-over round the previous day and meaning he missed the cut by a huge 12-stroke margin. With his father watching him in Dallas, Woods Jnr's first round at Brook Hollow was marred by four double bogeys and five bogeys with just two birdies to offset them. In his second round at Trinity Forest, he played the front nine at even par with three birdies and bogeys but lost three strokes on the back nine with two double bogeys and three bogeys with two birdies. He missed the cut last year at the tournament at Oakland Hills in Michigan. One of those advancing at the other Dallas venue for the stroke play section of the tournament, Brook Hollow, was Cameron Kuchar, the son of PGA Tour pro Matt Kuchar. He finished the stroke play competition tied on the cut line 50th place on three-over par.
