3M Championship

WHAT
Champions Tour event for professional golfers 50 years and older who qualify for the Champions Tour. Week-long golf activities lead up to the 54-hole championship.

WHEN
July 14 - 20th

WHERE
Tournament Players Club Twin Cities, Blaine, MN
Par: 72
7,100 yards
Opened: 2000
Designer: Arnold Palmer

CHARITY
Over $1 million was donated to our tournament charities in 2007. The major beneficiaries, United Hospital, Abbott Northwestern Hospital, Mercy Hospital and Unity Hospital all part of Allina Hospitals & Clinics. Abbott Northwestern will use their portion of the proceeds to benefit the Virginia Piper Cancer Institute.  Mercy & Unity Hospitals will use their portion to benefit their emergency room departments.  United Hospital earmaks its portion of the proceeds to benefit Neuroscience programs.The tournament has donated over $13 million to charity since 1993.

TITLE SPONSOR
3M

PRESENTING SPONSOR

Post-It Brand Products

PAST CHAMPIONS
1993: Chi Chi Rodriguez
1994: Dave Stockton
1995: Raymond Floyd
1996: Vincente Fernandez
1997: Hale Irwin
1998: Leonard Thompson
1999: Hale Irwin
2000: Ed Dougherty
2001: Bruce Lietzke
2002: Hale Irwin
2003: Wayne Levi
2004: Tom Kite

2005: Tom Purtzer

2006: David Edwards

2007:  D.A. Weibring

PURSE
Total purse: $1.75 million
First place: $262,500
Second place: $154,000
Third place: $126,000