Dates: Friday, August 10th through Sunday, August 12th
Site: TPC of the Twin Cities, Blaine, Minnesota
Course Architect: Arnold Palmer (2000), Tom Lehman (Consultant)
Par: 72
Yardage: 7,164
Hole-by-Hole: 1 - Par 4 426 Yds 10 - Par 4 379 Yds
2 - Par 4 388 Yds 11 - Par 4 414 Yds
3 - Par 5 546 Yds 12 - Par 5 593 Yds
4 - Par 3 177 Yds 13 - Par 3 228 Yds
5 - Par 4 418 Yds 14 - Par 4 423 Yds
6 - Par 5 571 Yds 15 - Par 4 451 Yds
7 - Par 4 318 Yds 16 - Par 4 387 Yds
8 - Par 3 204 Yds 17 - Par 3 184 Yds
9 - Par 4 475 Yds 18 - Par 5 582 Yds
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36 3,523 Yds 36 3,641 Yds
Annual: 10th
Defending Champion: Ed Dougherty
Runner-Up: Hale Irwin, Gil Morgan
Tournament Record: 197 (Ed Dougherty, 2000)
36-Hole Record: 131 (Ed Dougherty, 2000)
Course Record: 64 (Jack Kiefer, 1993; Graham Marsh, Gibby Gilbert, 1995;
Jimmy Powell, 1997; Hale Irwin, 1999; Chuck Moran, 2000)
Total Purse: $1,750,000
Shares: 1st Place - $262,500; 2nd Place - 154,000; 3rd Place - 126,000
2000 Finish
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Player Score Player Score
------ ----- ------ -----
Ed Dougherty 197 Allen Doyle 205
Hale Irwin 199 Jim Thorpe 206
Gil Morgan 199 Larry Nelson 206
Chuck Moran 204 Walt Morgan 206
Hubert Green 205 Jim Colbert 207
Past 3M Championship Winners and Runners-up
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2000 -- Ed Dougherty (197) -- Hale Irwin, Gil Morgan
1999 -- Hale Irwin (201) -- Jim Dent, Dale Douglass
1998 -- *#Leonard Thompson (134) -- Isao Aoki
1997 -- Hale Irwin (199) -- Lee Trevino
1996 -- Vicente Fernandez (205) -- Bruce Crampton, J.C. Snead1995 -- Ray Floyd (
1994 -- Dave Stockton (203) -- Jim Albus
1993 -- Chi Chi Rodriguez (201) -- Jim Colbert, Bob Murphy
* - Won in playoff.
# - Rain shortened.
Note: Formerly called Burnet Senior Classic (1993-97), Coldwell Banker
Burnet Classic (1998-2000).
Top Contenders in the Field
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Ed Dougherty - Defending champion, one win, 5 top-5's
Allen Doyle - 2nd last wk, 1st on money list, 19 top-10's
Bruce Fleisher - 3 wins in 2001, 3rd in money, 2nd in driving accuracy
Hale Irwin - 1st in greens in reg, 2nd in scoring avg, 10 top-5's
Tom Kite - 4 third place finishes, 2nd in all-around, 13th in money
Mike McCullough - 7th in money with two wins, 8 top-10's, 6th last week
Gil Morgan - 1st in scoring, birdies and putting, two wins in 2001
Larry Nelson - 2001 Tour leading 4 wins, 14 top-10's in 21 events
Arnold Palmer - Only 5th event on Tour this year, 10 career SENIOR wins
Dana Quigley - 6th on money list with one win and two seconds
Bobby Wadkins - Won last week in SENIOR tour debut (65-69-68)
Tom Watson - 15th in money in only 11 events, won SENIOR PGA Champ
Golftoday Network Selections
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Pick to Win - Hale Irwin
Darkhorse - Gary McCord
Last week's Pick to Win (Bruce Fleisher) - Finished tied for 7th
Last week's Darkhorse (Stewart Ginn) - Finished tied for 28th
NOTES:
Ed Dougherty notched his first SENIOR TOUR title, shooting a
record-setting 19-under 197, as he defeated 1999 champion Hale Irwin and Gil
Morgan by two shots. Dougherty had gone 69 starts on the senior circuit
without a victory before he broke through at Bunker Hills Golf Club. His
$240,000 first-place check was more than he won in his best year on the PGA
TOUR (1992 -- $237,525). Dougherty went wire-to-wire for the win. The win was
not secure until the final hole when Irwin missed a nine-foot eagle putt. This
year the tournament has a new course and a new sponsor. Bunker Hills Golf Club
had hosted this event since 1993, however the Tournament Players Club of the
Twin Cities, will now host the event. Native Minnesotan Tom Lehman
collaborated with Arnold Palmer on the design, the 19th club within the PGA
TOUR's prestigious Tournament Players Club Network. In addition, the event
will now become the 3M Championship after three years of being called the
Coldwell Banker Burnet Classic. A hole-in-one has been made at the 3M
Championship in each of the last three years. In 1998, Bruce Lehnhard carded
the first ace in tournament history on the 17th hole in the opening round. In
1999, Bruce Fleisher aced the 13th hole in the final round, and last year
Harold Henning scored an ace at the 17th hole in the second round. In the
eight previous tournaments, the largest winning margin has been two strokes.
In 1993, Chi Chi Rodriguez bested Jim Colbert by that margin and in 1997, Hale
Irwin defeated Lee Trevino by a pair. In 1999, Irwin held off both Dale
Douglass and Jim Dent by two shots, and Ed Dougherty bested Gil Morgan and
Irwin by two strokes in 2000. Since 1993, no player in the field has had a
lead greater than one stroke in either the first or second round of the event.
In his six appearances at this event, Irwin has two wins and five top-10
finishes. Irwin is the all-time scoring leader with an average of 67.50 and is
first in money earned with $667,968 in earnings. Irwin has a string of 13
consecutive sub-par rounds with 12 in the 60's. In the previous eight events,
the player who has led or been tied for the lead after 36 holes has won the
event six times, including each of the last four years. Those players are Hale
Irwin (1997, 1999), Leonard Thompson (1998) and Ed Dougherty (2000). The
others were Dave Stockton (1994) and Ray Floyd (1995). Chi Chi Rodriguez won
the inaugural event at Bunker Hills in 1993, the last of his 22 Senior Tour
career wins. Ray Floyd is the only player to win a PGA and SENIOR Tour event
in the Twin Cities area. Floyd won this tournament in 1995 and captured the
St. Paul Open in 1965. Dougherty is looking to become the first back-to-back
winner of this event. All previous winners of this event have won with every
round in the 60's. The purse was increased by $150,000 from last year. The
Senior Tour moves to Utah next week for the Novell Utah Showdown where Doug
Tewell will defend his title.
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