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Round 3 of the 3M Open takes place today at TPC Twin Cities. Here’s everything you need to know to follow the action. Round 3 leaderboard Round 3 tee times HOW TO FOLLOW Television: Thursday-Friday, 2:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m. ET (Golf Channel). Saturday-Sunday 1 p.m.-3 p.m. (Golf Channel), 3 p.m.-6 p.m. (CBS). PGA TOUR LIVE: Saturday, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. (Featured Groups), 3 p.m.-6 p.m. (Featured Holes). Sunday, 8 a.m.-3 p.m. (Featured Groups), 3 p.m.-6 p.m. (Featured Holes). Radio: Thursday-Friday, 1 p.m.-6:30 p.m. Saturday-Sunday 1 p.m.-6 p.m. (PGA TOUR Radio on SiriusXM and PGATOUR.com/liveaudio). FEATURED GROUPS Max Homa, Austin Cook, Sepp Straka Saturday: 11:32 a.m. ET (No. 1 tee) Alex Noren, Si Woo Kim, Charles Howell III Saturday: 11:43 a.m. ET (No. 1 tee) MUST READS Thompson, Werenski tied for lead after 36 holes at the 3M Open Koepka misses cut at 3M Open, prepares for upcoming title defense After long layoff, Van Pelt finally likes where his game is going Finau parts ways with caddie Best par save ever? After two in water, Bae holes out from 250 yards Dustin Johnson withdraws from 3M Open citing back injury Insider: Fleetwood returns to work Four burning questions about DJ PGA TOUR University’s inaugural top 15 ranking CALL OF THE DAY

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A quick look at the four players who qualified for this week’s Wells Fargo Championship: T.J. VOGEL (65) Age: 27 Hometown: Hollywood, Florida Alma mater: USC/Florida PGA TOUR starts: 7 Best TOUR finish: T16, 2018 Valspar Championship Notes: Vogel, winner of the 2012 U.S. Amateur Public Links, has now qualified for four events this season. He missed his first two cuts before making the first cut of his TOUR career at the Valspar. Vogel finished 10th on last season’s Mackenzie Tour-PGA TOUR Canada Order of Merit. CARTER JENKINS (65) Age: 22 Hometown: Raleigh, North Carolina Alma mater: UNC-Greensboro/North Carolina PGA TOUR starts: 1 Best TOUR finish: MC, 2017 Wells Fargo Championship Notes: Jenkins also played in last year’s Wells Fargo, shooting 75-75 at Eagle Point to miss the cut. Jenkins won three consecutive Carolinas Amateurs (2013-15) and shot a course-record 59 at Wildwood Green Golf Club in 2012. He finished 55th on last year’s Mackenzie Tour-PGA TOUR Canada Order of Merit after finishing 18th the previous year. J.T. GRIFFIN (66) Age: 30 Hometown: Atlanta Alma mater: Georgia Tech PGA TOUR starts: Debut Notes: This will be Griffin’s first start in a PGA TOUR-sanctioned event since missing the cut at the 2016 Rex Hospital Open on the Web.com Tour. He has competed on the Web.com Tour, PGA TOUR Canada and PGA TOUR Latinoamerica, missing the cut in 15 of 20 starts on those tours. Griffin was a two-time All-American at Georgia Tech, where he was teammates with Chesson Hadley and Cameron Tringale. GUILLERMO PEREIRA (67) Age: 23 Hometown: Santiago, Chile Alma mater: Texas Tech PGA TOUR starts: Debut Notes: Pereira will join countryman Joaquin Niemann, who finished sixth in his pro debut at the Valero Texas Open, in the field at Quail Hollow. Pereira ranked as high as fifth in the World Amateur Golf Ranking before turning pro after his freshman season at Texas Tech. He finished third on PGA TOUR Latinoamerica’s Order of Merit in 2015, then finished No. 64 on the Web.com Tour money list last year. He is 62nd on this season’s Web.com Tour money list. (Pereira grabbed the final spot in a playoff with Scott Strohmeyer, Jordan Niebrugge, D.J. Trahan and Nathan Stamey.) VALERO TEXAS OPEN QUALIFIERS T64. Joshua Creel, 69-72-73-76 MC. Curtis Reed, 74-73 MC. Paul McConnell, 71-78 MC. Troy Matteson, 74-83 THIS SEASON’S QUALIFIERS Qualifiers: 55 Made cut: 19 (34.5%) Top-10s: 3 (Scott Strohmeyer, T4 at Sanderson Farms; Trey Mullinax, T8 at Valspar; Julian Suri, T8 at Houston) Top-25s: 5 Most times qualified: T.J. Vogel (4)

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HOUSTON - Phil Mickelson saved his best for last at the Vivint Houston Open. He holed out from 193 yards on Memorial Park's 18th hole. It was the second-longest hole-out for eagle of his career, as captured by ShotLink. Unfortunately, Mickelson was 11 over par on his previous 35 holes at Memorial Park and will miss the cut in his final start before the Masters. Mickelson also made a quintuple-bogey 8 on the par-3 ninth hole Friday, his highest score on a par-3 in his PGA TOUR career. Mickelson has been experimenting with a 47 ½-inch driver for added distance, but he struggled off the tee in Houston. Mickelson hit just 10 fairways in two rounds, including just three Friday, and lost more than four strokes off the tee in two rounds. He's hitting just 36.4% of his fairways in four starts this season. This week, he made just two birdies, and his walk-off eagle, at the newly-renovated Memorial Park. Mickelson has broken par just once in his last eight rounds on TOUR and is 25 over par in that span. He shot 13 over to miss the cut in the U.S. Open at Winged Foot and finished second-to-last in the ZOZO CHAMPIONHSHIP @ SHERWOOD in two starts prior to arriving at the Vivint Houston Open.

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