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Jin Young Ko birdied Nos. 14-16 and parred the final two holes on Sunday, closing with a 7-under 65 for a one-stroke victory over four players in the Founders Cup.

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Lucas Glover returns to defend his title with major champions, PGA TOUR winners, and up-and-comers also in the field at TPC Deere Run – with Open Championship spots on the line. FIELD NOTES: Daniel Berger is the highest-ranked player in the field, Davis Riley the highest in the FedExCup standings… PLAYERS Championship winners Jason Day and Webb Simpson are teeing it up… Lucas Glover will look to become the first to successfully defend his title at the Deere since Steve Stricker a decade ago… Sponsor exemptions include Duke graduate Quinn Riley, new pro Chris Gotterup, and Patrick Flavin, who has Monday-qualified into five PGA TOUR events this season… Nine former Deere winners are in the field… Taylor Pendrith is set to make his return to action after suffering a broken rib at THE PLAYERS… Illinois native Nick Hardy, who tied for 14th at the U.S. Open, is back in the field. He made the cut as an amateur at the 2017 Deere. FEDEXCUP: Winner receives 500 FedExCup points. COURSE: TPC Deere Run, par 71, 7,289 yards. The D.A. Weibring design offers up plenty of birdie opportunities but risk-reward scenarios as well. Weibring, an Illinois native, won the Deere three times before he was tasked with helping to create TPC Deere Run in 1999. There’s lots of dramatic elevation on the course, which used to be an Arabian horse farm. On the same day that Paul Goydos shot the course record, a 59 in 2010, Steve Stricker shot 60. STORYLINES: The Deere will once again be part of the Open Championship Qualifying Series. There are three spots up for grabs for those who have not already earned a spot at St. Andrews. Still eying a spot: Adam Hadwin, who earned a spot via the Qualifying Series at the RBC Canadian Open in 2019 and finished T7 at the U.S. Open… Can Stricker turn back the clock? A three-time winner at the Deere, he returned from illness and has been returning to form, too. He’s already won a PGA TOUR Champions major this season and was in second at the U.S. Senior Open through 36 holes… Five of the last 10 winners of the Deere were first-timer TOUR winners… Andrew Ruthkoski is hoping his world-record mojo continues into the Monday qualifier. Ruthkoski, a PGA professional, fired a 17-under 55 in a casual round June 19 to tie the lowest round in golf history. He got through the pre-qualifier for the Deere and is in the field for the Monday qualifier. 72-HOLE RECORD: 257, Michael Kim (2018) 18-HOLE RECORD: 59, Paul Goydos (1st round, 2010) LAST TIME: Lucas Glover won a TOUR event in the third different decade. He birdied five of his last seven holes for a 7-under 64 Sunday, tied for the low round of the day, to top Ryan Moore and Kevin Na by two. Moore and Na each birdied the second-to-last hole, but Glover’s 19-under-par total was too good. He became just the seventh player to win in the 2000s, 2010s, and 2020s. Four players finished a shot further back at 16 under, tied for fourth. Glover’s win came 10 years after his previous TOUR title, at the 2011 Wells Fargo Championship. HOW TO FOLLOW Television: Thursday-Friday, 3 p.m.-6 p.m. ET (Golf Channel). Saturday-Sunday, 1 p.m.-3 p.m. (Golf Channel), 3 p.m.-6 p.m. (CBS) Radio: Thursday-Friday, 12 p.m.–6 p.m. ET. Saturday-Sunday, 1 p.m.-6 p.m. (PGA TOUR Radio on SiriusXM and PGATOUR.com/liveaudio) For outside of the U.S., click here for GOLFTV powered by the PGA TOUR PGA TOUR LIVE PGA TOUR Live is available exclusively on ESPN+ • Main Feed: primary tournament-coverage featuring the best action from across the course • Marquee Group: new “marquee group” showcasing every shot from each player in the group • Featured Groups: traditional PGA TOUR LIVE coverage of two concurrent featured groups • Featured Holes: a combination of par-3s and iconic or pivotal holes

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BLAINE, Minn. (AP) — Scott Piercy shot a 6-under 65 to share the 3M Open lead with Sungjae Im after the first round Thursday. Tony Finau was two strokes back, with three near misses of birdie putts over his last four holes, along with Brice Garnett, Doug Ghim, Emiliano Grillo and Tom Hoge. On a dry, windy, 86-degree day at the TPC Twin Cities in suburban Minneapolis, the course’s penchant for producing low scores held up once again. Playing in the second group of the day off the first tee, Piercy made 151 feet worth of putts. He birdied four of the first five holes on his back nine. The 43-year-old Piercy, who led the 3M Open in 2019 by two strokes after the first round, is one of several on-the-fringe players in the field this year seeking a late-season lift in the FedEx Cup race. Piercy arrived in Minnesota in 138th place, with the cut for the playoffs at 125 and two events left after this to qualify. In four of his last six starts, Piercy has failed to advance to the weekend. On TOUR since 2009, Piercy has four career wins. Just last week, he switched his caddie, his swing coach, his driver and his putter — an uncharacteristically drastic series of decisions for him. “Every shot counts, and it’s time to buckle down,” Piercy said. “Not that we don’t try to buckle down all the time, but there’s extra buckling down, I guess. To start off this way is really nice.” Im, who’s 19th in the FedEx Cup standings and 24th in the world, birdied four of his last six holes. The 24-year-old from South Korea tied for eighth at the Masters this year but tied for 81st last week at the British Open. Finau, the lone member of last year’s U.S. Ryder Cup team and the 17th-ranked player in the world, has two top-five finishes this summer. The Utah player missed a 3-foot birdie putt on 15 and left a 4-footer for birdie just short on 16. Then on the 18th, his tee and approach shots were spot on, but an 8-foot birdie putt lipped out and settled 4 inches from the cup. Making two of those three would’ve put him in the lead. The highest-ranked player in the field, Hideki Matsuyama, withdrew. He cited a sore wrist after shooting a 77 to match his worst round of the season, his Saturday at the Masters on April 9. Entering the week in eighth place in the FedEx Cup race and the world’s No. 14 player, Matsuyama hit into the water three times on the unforgiving and lakeside 18th hole and took a quadruple-bogey 9. Matsuyama, the 2021 Masters winner and a fourth-place finisher at the U.S. Open this summer, tied for seventh at the first edition of the 3M Open in 2019. Mardy Fish, the former tennis star who’s playing on a sponsor exemption, was tied for last at 81.

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