3M Open Purse 2026: Koivun Claims $1.584M Winner's Check
Jackson Koivun won the 2026 3M Open at TPC Twin Cities, taking home $1,584,000 from an $8.8 million purse in just his third professional start.
Jackson Koivun, 21, collected a $1,584,000 winner's check at TPC Twin Cities in Blaine, Minnesota, on Sunday, July 26, claiming the 2026 3M Open title in only his third start as a professional golfer.
The Numbers Behind the Win
The total 2026 3M Open purse was $8.8 million, a $400,000 increase from the $8.4 million offered when Kurt Kitayama won at the same venue in 2025. According to the official PGA Tour event facts page, Koivun's winner's share represents 18 percent of that total fund, the standard first-place allocation the Tour applies across this tier of event.
Koivun finished at 25-under 259 for the week, a new tournament scoring record. The previous best winning score at the 3M Open was Lee Hodges' 24-under total in 2023, a mark Koivun cleared by one.
World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler gave chase on Sunday, firing an 8-under final round to finish solo second at 22-under 262. Scheffler earned $959,200 for the runner-up finish. Even with Koivun's three-shot margin of victory, Scheffler made it uncomfortable, he pulled within two at one point during the final round before Koivun closed bogey-free.
Four players tied for third at 20-under: Hideki Matsuyama, Brian Harman, Denny McCarthy, and Chandler Phillips. Each earned $429,550. Davis Thompson and Emiliano Grillo shared seventh at 19-under, taking $286,000 apiece. Ben Kohles, who had shared second with Grillo entering Sunday's final round, finished ninth at 18-under and earned $257,400.
Full Payout Table (Top-10 Finishes)
Finish | Player | Score | Earnings |
|---|---|---|---|
1 | Jackson Koivun | -25 (259) | $1,584,000 |
2 | Scottie Scheffler | -22 (262) | $959,200 |
T3 | Hideki Matsuyama | -20 | $429,550 |
T3 | Brian Harman | -20 | $429,550 |
T3 | Denny McCarthy | -20 | $429,550 |
T3 | Chandler Phillips | -20 | $429,550 |
T7 | Davis Thompson | -19 | $286,000 |
T7 | Emiliano Grillo | -19 | $286,000 |
9 | Ben Kohles | -18 | $257,400 |
T10 | Gary Woodland | -17 | $222,200 |
T10 | Seamus Power | -17 | $222,200 |
T10 | Michael Kim | -17 | $222,200 |
Source: Golf News Net final payout table
A total of 66 players completed four rounds and earned prize money from the $8.8 million fund. Every professional who made the cut received a check, per the Tour's standard payout structure.
How Koivun Built the Lead
Koivun did not arrive at Sunday's final round through cautious accumulation. He arrived by playing nine holes on Saturday that TPC Twin Cities has rarely seen.
His third-round 61, 10-under, included a back-nine score of 28, setting a new tournament record for a single nine-hole stretch. He closed Saturday with birdie-birdie-eagle on his final three holes, birdies at 16 and 17, then a 13-footer for eagle at the par-5 18th, vaulting from four shots off the lead into a three-shot advantage by the time he signed his scorecard.
At 20-under through 54 holes, Koivun led Grillo and Kohles by three. Scheffler, who had posted a 7-under 64 on Saturday to claw into contention, still sat six back. The gap was significant. The 21-year-old held it.
A Rookie Unlike Most Rookies
Koivun turned professional barely a month before the 3M Open. He had spent his junior year at Auburn rather than turning pro after his sophomore season, a decision that, at the time, required some explanation given how thoroughly he had dominated college golf.
His Auburn career produced 11 individual victories (a school record), a career scoring average of 68.89 (the lowest in NCAA history), and a run of top-10 finishes in 34 of his 39 college starts. He swept all three national player-of-the-year awards, the Jack Nicklaus Award, Fred Haskins Award, and Ben Hogan Award, in both 2024 and 2026, becoming the first player ever to win all three in multiple seasons, according to Auburn Athletics.
He entered the U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills as the leading amateur in the world, sharing low-amateur honors with a 5-over total. Then he turned pro. His first two starts, the John Deere Classic and the ISCO Championship, produced a missed cut and a T10. The 3M Open was his third.
The $1,584,000 check is already the largest single payment in his career, and it arrives after he officially joined the Tour. For comparison, Bud Cauley had to wait 239 PGA Tour starts before collecting a comparable winner's payday, a contrast that illustrates how rare it is for rookies to break through this quickly on the PGA Tour.
Koivun also earned 500 FedExCup points for the victory, the standard allocation for this event tier, and 42 Official World Golf Ranking points, according to the Golf News Net final results report. Both figures will move him significantly in the FedExCup standings and the world ranking simultaneously.
What the Purse Represents
The 2026 3M Open sits in the wave of events immediately before the FedExCup Playoffs. A place inside the top 70 of the FedExCup standings is the margin separating a full postseason from an early flight home, so for players close to that line, risk management on Sunday shifts accordingly, protecting position sometimes trades off against hunting birdies.
Koivun did not play like someone protecting a FedExCup position. He played five under for the round, bogey-free, while the world number one threw everything at him. That is not the scorecard of a player playing cautiously, Scheffler shot 63 in the final round and still finished three back.
The course itself, TPC Twin Cities, is a par-71 layout measuring 7,431 yards in Blaine, Minnesota. The tournament has been held there since its PGA Tour debut in 2019. Winning totals across the previous seven editions ranged from 15 under par (Cameron Champ, 2021) to 24 under par (Lee Hodges, 2023). Koivun's 25-under cleared the top of that range, and the tournament record, by one shot.
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