The 3M Open date remains unchanged, again scheduled for the second-to-last weekend in July in 2026.
Its spot within the PGA Tour schedule, however, was adjusted by a week.
There lies the problem.
The Tour’s schedule weas bumped back a week this year, which pushes next year’s Tour Championship to the last weekend in August. So how is the TPC Twin Cities stop still on the same spot on the calendar?
One event – the Rocket Mortgage Classic in Michigan – was moved to the last weekend in July and will be played the week following the 3M Open, with the Wyndham Championship still being the final event of the regular season.
That could cause fewer big-name players to make the transcontinental flight to the Twin Cities.
The 3M Open has long been in the disadvantageous spot of taking place the week after the final major of the year – The Open Championship.
But Minnesota’s PGA Tour stop had one thing going for it as the second-to-last event pre-playoffs – guys sometimes had no choice but to play in Blaine in the pursuit of points if they had goals on getting into the top 70 to reach the postseason or trying to secure a top-50 spot to clinch their position in the following year’s high-payout, no-cut signature events.
That’s one of the reasons the likes of Rickie Fowler, Adam Scott and Wyndham Clark were in the 2025 field.
Now, with two more point-earning possibilities between the 3M Open and the playoff, it will be easier for players to justify taking a week off following their overseas competition(s) to recharge for a potential playoff push.
Because anyone playing in the 3M Open in an attempt to qualify for the playoffs could be setting themselves up to play six or seven events in a row, which is uncommon for players.
The tournament has done a good job attracting relatively appealing fields with a deck stacked against it in recent years, the challenge did appear to just get a bit more difficult.
Other 2026 schedule notes
Trump National Doral is back on the PGA Tour schedule next year as a signature event that is sure to test how often the top golfers want to play during an extraordinary spring of five big tournaments in a six-week stretch.
Doral long was considered the start of the Florida swing, a can’t-miss event as the PGA Tour began attracting international stars.
Next year it will be a $20 million signature event the first weekend in May, part of a stretch that starts with the Masters, ends with the PGA Championship and has three signature events in the four weeks in between.
That also means players not eligible for those big events would have only two tournaments to play — one of them with a minimal purse — in that six-week stretch.
“We’re excited to showcase the game’s greatest players competing at golf’s most iconic venues,” said Brian Rolapp, the tour’s new CEO.
There’s virtually no change from the 2025 schedule except for a few tournaments changing dates, the Mexico Open moving to the fall and moving the opposite-field event in the Dominican Republic from March (against Bay Hill) to July (against the British Open).
The PGA Tour lost the Barracuda Championship in Truckee, Calif., that had been opposite the British Open. It was the only tournament that used the modified Stableford scoring system.
Still to be determined is a title sponsor for what now is called the Miami Championship.
Doral first became part of the PGA Tour schedule in 1962. It became a World Golf Championship event in 2007, and then the PGA Tour struggled to find a title sponsor when President Donald Trump bought the resort.
It moved away from Trump Doral to Mexico City after 2016, prompting Trump — the presumed Republican nominee at the time — to say, “I hope they have kidnapping insurance.”
The famed “Blue Monster” at Trump Doral then became a site for Saudi-funded LIV Golf each of the past four years. Miami is not part of the LIV schedule for 2026, although his Trump National outside Washington will be used.
The spring stretch isn’t the only busy part of the schedule.
The PGA Tour season begins a week later on Jan. 8 at Kapalua, giving players a little more time after the holidays to get ready.
That means the WM Phoenix Open, which prefers to end on Super Bowl Sunday, will be Feb. 5-8. The AT&T Pebble Beach moves back a week followed by the Genesis Invitational, both $20 million signature events.
Previously, the Mexico Open was after the West Coast Swing, a week before the start of the Florida Swing. Now the Cognizant Classic in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., will follow two signature events at Pebble Beach and Riviera, and precede two more big events in the Arnold Palmer Invitational and The Players Championship.
The Associated Press contributed to this report
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