Now that The Open Championship is complete, I have had a minute to sit back and appreciate just how dominant that performance was from Brian Harman. I admittedly spent much of the weekend rooting for him to stumble a bit, just to ramp up the drama, but he put together one of the best major championship performances we have seen in a long, long time.
Harman only hit three bunkers all week, and one of those came on his 72nd hole with the trophy already engraved with his name. He also was nearly perfect with his putting, missing just once from inside of 10 feet on the entire week. In an era where distance is perceived to be king, he took over a course with accuracy, precision and an unflappable short game to torch th e best players in the world this past week in Hoylake.
The PGA Tour returns stateside this week to TPC Twin Cities for the 3M Open in Blaine, Minnesota. Some of the players who were at The Open will keep powering through and play this week back in Minnesota. Others will travel from the Barracuda Championship at Lake Tahoe where Akshay Bhatia broke through for his first win.
The 3M Open marks the start of the home stretch of the season and into the playoffs in August. This is a pivotal point in the year for those near the cutline for the playoffs with just two events left before the playoffs start in Memphis.