2025 3M Open playoff format: What happens if two or more players are tied after 72 holes?

behind them within five shots of the leaders. Among those close to the leaders are Jake Knapp at -17 and Chris Gotterup, the Scottish Open winner at -16. Wyndham Clark is another golfer to keep an eye on at -14.

It should make for an interesting Sunday afternoon of golf with the leaders teeing off at 1:35 p.m.

What happens if two or more players are tied after 72 holes?

With so many golfers within striking range of the leaders, we thought we’d have a look to see what happens if there’s a tie after four days of play. The playoff format at TPC Twin Cities is sudden-death. Players will tee off in the order they finished and will play holes 18, 18, 17, 18 in a loop until one of them comes out on top.

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So, if Bhatia and Gotterup are tied after 72 holes, for example, Gotterup will tee off first on No. 18 and if Bhatia scores a birdie and Gotterup a par, the playoff is over and Bhatia wins. If they finish hole 18 with the same score, they will go to the 17th hole and so on until someone wins.

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