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Senior Tour Officials, Sponsor 3M Want To Bring Regular PGA Tour Event To Twin Cities In '19

Operators of the PGA Tour Champions event at TPC Twin Cities have partnered with 3M and "made a bid" to host a PGA Tour event there in '19, according to Chad Graff of the ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS. 3M sponsors the annual senior tour event there, and tournament Exec Dir Hollis Cavner is optimistic the course "will be granted an event that could be held annually." The course is "committed to hosting its annual PGA Tour Champions event" through '18. Cavner said that the only thing standing in the way of TPC Twin Cities and a PGA Tour event "is a date." The Tour already has a "condensed summer schedule and would want to conduct a tournament in Minnesota only in June, July or August." Cavner: "If we could play in October, they’d have us one tomorrow. There’s no doubt about it. But we can’t play then. So we’ve got a three-month window and that’s it. So it really puts a lot of pressure on the Tour to find the right date." Cavner said that it "may not be until the end of this year before he learns whether TPC Twin Cities will get a PGA Tour event." While Wisconsin hosted the U.S. Open last week, Ohio and Illinois are the "only Midwest states with a regular PGA Tour event" (ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS, 6/20).

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