Third-Round Leaderboard
T1 Akshay Bhatia 66 66 63 195 (-18)
T1 Thorbjørn Olesen 62 66 67 195 (-18)
T3 Kurt Kitayama 65 71 60 196 (-17)
T3 Takumi Kanaya 67 64 65 196 (-17)
T3 Sam Stevens 62 68 66 196 (-17)
T3 Jake Knapp 64 65 67 196 (-17)
54-hole lead/co-lead
• Three of the six champions of the 3M Open held at least a share of the 54-hole lead (most recent: Jhonattan Vegas/2024)
Thorbjørn Olesen (T1/-18)
• 195 marks his lowest 54-hole total on TOUR (previous: 202/2019 WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational, 2025 RBC Canadian Open)
• Making his 3M Open debut, holds 54-hole lead/co-lead for the first time on TOUR; 7-for-8 converting the outright 54-hole lead on the DP World Tour
• Enters the week No. 129 in the FedExCup with two top-10s in 16 starts this season (T5/Valero Texas Open,T7/ONEflight Myrtle Beach Classic)
• Eight-time DP World Tour winner earned PGA TOUR membership for the 2025 season after finishing No. 7 in the 2024 DP World Tour Top 10, which awards TOUR membership to the top 10 finishers in the final Race to Dubai Rankings, not otherwise exempt; also earned TOUR membership for the 2024 season via the DP World Tour Top 10 before finishing No. 170 in the 2024 FedExCup Fall standings
With a victory:
• Seeks first PGA TOUR title in his 95th start at the age of 35 years, 7 months, 6 days
• Best finish on TOUR: T3/2018 WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational
• Seeks to become the first player from Denmark to win on the PGA TOUR
• Best finish on TOUR by players from Denmark: runner-up (nine times by four players)
o Thomas Bjørn (2nd/2004 WGC-American Express Championship, T2/2000 Open Championship, T2/2003 Open Championship, T2/2005 PGA Championship)
o Nicolai Højgaard (2nd/2023 Corales Puntacana Championship, 2nd/2024 Farmers Insurance Open, 2nd /2025 Zurich Classic of New Orleans)
o Rasmus Højgaard (2nd /2025 Zurich Classic of New Orleans)
o Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen (2nd/2025 Puerto Rico Open)
• Would become the 1,000th different winner in PGA TOUR history; TOUR currently has 999 unique winners
• Would become the 12th first-time winner on TOUR this season and third in as many weeks (William Mouw/ISCO Championship, Ryan Gerard/Barracuda Championship)
• Would become the third player to earn their first PGA TOUR title at the 3M Open (Matthew Wolff/2019, Lee Hodges/2023)
Hole-in-one:
• Records a hole-in-one on the par-3 eighth hole with a 6-iron from 209 yards, his first ace on TOUR
• Marks the third ace on No. 8 at the 3M Open since 2019 (Bo Van Pelt/R1/2020, Tim Herron/R1/2019)
• Would become the third player to make an ace and go on to win the event on the PGA TOUR this season: Rory McIlroy/AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am (No. 15/R1); Ludvig Åberg/The Genesis Invitational (No. 3/R3)
Akshay Bhatia (T1/-18)
• Seeks third PGA TOUR victory in his 90th start (2023 Barracuda Championship, 2024 Valero Texas Open)
• Win on Sunday would come at the age of 23 years, 5 months, 27 days
• Records a third round 8-under 63, matching his career-low score (5 times; most recent: 2025 Truist Championship/R1)
• Holds third 54-hole lead/co-lead on TOUR; 1-for-2 to date converting to victory (2024 Valero Texas Open/Won, 2024 Rocket Classic/T2)
• Making second start at the 3M Open (T64/2024)
• Enters the week No. 46 in the FedExCup with three top-10s in 19 starts this season (T3/THE PLAYERS Championship, 9th/Mexico Open at VidantaWorld, T9/The Genesis Invitational)
Miscellaneous notes:
• The 2023 Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by Mastercard winner, Kurt Kitayama (T3/-17) records a career-low 11-
under 60 (previous: 62/R2/2024 Sony Open in Hawaii) to match the 3M Open scoring record set earlier this week by
Adam Svensson (R1)
• Making his 46th start on the PGA TOUR, Takumi Kanaya (T3/-17) seeks to become the sixth player from Japan to win on
TOUR (18th win) and second this season Hideki Matsuyama (The Sentry); would be the first player from Japan other
than Matsuyama to win on TOUR since Satoshi Kodaira (2018 RBC Heritage)
• Sam Stevens (T3/-17) posts bogey-free 66 and leads the field in Strokes Gained: Around the Green (3.197) through
three rounds; enters the week No. 44 in the FedExCup with two top-10 finishes this season including his second career
runner-up at the Farmers Insurance Open
• Chris Gotterup (T7/-16) seeks to become the seventh multiple winner on TOUR this season (Scottie Scheffler/4, Rory McIlroy/3, Sepp Straka/2, Ben Griffin/2, Ryan Fox/2, Brian Campbell/2); has finished inside the top 25 in 11 of his 23 events played this season, highlighted by his second PGA TOUR victory at the Genesis Scottish Open and solo-third finish at last week’s Open Championship
• After securing his first made cut on the PGA TOUR, rising Ole Miss senior Michael La Sasso (T16/-13) records an 8-under 63, the lowest round by an amateur on TOUR this season (previous: Jackson Koivun/64/R2/John Deere Classic)
(info courtesy of 3M Open)
