{"id":50601,"date":"2026-07-24T16:41:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T20:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2026\/07\/24\/longshots-mazie-donahue-achieves-3m-open-cut-and-carries-on-her-grandmothers-spirit-into-the-weekend\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T16:41:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T20:41:16","slug":"longshots-mazie-donahue-achieves-3m-open-cut-and-carries-on-her-grandmothers-spirit-into-the-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2026\/07\/24\/longshots-mazie-donahue-achieves-3m-open-cut-and-carries-on-her-grandmothers-spirit-into-the-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Longshot&#8217;s Mazie Donahue achieves 3M open cut and carries on her grandmother&#8217;s spirit into the weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Two weeks after winning the 2026 Minnesota State Open, Mazie Donahue is having a dream week at the PGA Tour&#8217;s 2026 3M Open.<\/p>\n<p>Donahue bounced back from a 73 on Thursday to a 63 on Friday, moving him inside the top 20 at the halfway point of the event at TPC Twin Cities.<\/p>\n<p>advertisement<\/p>\n<p>In fact, while Michael Kim was signing his card after the 16th round of sub-60 in PGA Tour history, Donahue was threatening to match it. Donahue was 8 under after 13 holes, and the words &#8220;59 watch&#8221; were murmured again in Blaine, Minnesota.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"content-figure\">\n<div class=\"content-image\"><button aria-label=\"View larger image\" class=\"lightbox-btn\" data-ylk=\"elm:expand;itc:1;sec:image-lightbox;subsec:image-lightbox;slk:lightbox-open;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;expand&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;image-lightbox&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;image-lightbox&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;lightbox-open&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\"><span class=\"lightbox-expand\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 22 22\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"size-4 lg:size-6\" width=\"22\" height=\"22\"><path d=\"M12.372.92c0-.506.41-.916.915-.916L21 0l-.004 7.712a.917.917 0 0 1-1.832 0V3.183l-6.827 6.828-1.349-1.348 6.828-6.828h-4.529a.915.915 0 0 1-.915-.915M1.835 17.816l6.828-6.828 1.349 1.349-6.829 6.827h4.529a.915.915 0 0 1 0 1.831L0 21l.004-7.713a.916.916 0 0 1 1.831 0z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/button><dialog aria-label=\"Image Lightbox\" class=\"lightbox-overlay\" aria-modal=\"true\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"fig-caption\">\n<p>Mazie Donahue plays a provisional shot from the second tee during the first round of the 2026 3M Open at TPC Twin Cities.<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Three consecutive pars followed, and it was a short-lived dream. He got a birdie on the 17th, but ended up with a bogey. Still, that 63 was 10 strokes better than 24 hours earlier. More importantly, this unlikely story unfolds over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was surreal. It&#8217;s hard to explain in words. I mean, it&#8217;s something I&#8217;ve never really experienced before,&#8221; said Donahue, 25. &#8220;This is my first PGA Tour event. I mean, the most fans I&#8217;ve ever seen was probably 50 at the State Open a few weeks ago.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Those fans are definitely rooting for a local player who was a hockey goalie in high school.<\/p>\n<section class=\"consent\"\/>\n<p>&#8220;It was great to have so many friends come to watch and feel like a kid back home,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It was really fun because I&#8217;m not used to hearing the cheers when a birdie putt goes down. And some of my friends from college flew in from Boston to come see me. I mean, it&#8217;s really great to see everyone supporting me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Donahue played at Boston University. His cousin Harrison works as a caddy. This week is a family event with his parents, three brothers and grandpa in the gallery. However, the key person is absent. Donahue&#8217;s grandmother passed away on Monday. This week, he put the word &#8220;Grandma&#8221; on a golf ball in her honor.<\/p>\n<p>advertisement<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My grandmother was definitely with me this week, or even today. Yesterday she left me for about the first 10 holes, and then it was like she came playing,&#8221; he joked. &#8220;Yes, she looks down on me and cares about me. It was a good day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He says he hopes her mental health will improve by the end of this week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I hope she&#8217;s not tired of me and can stay with me for a few more days.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The story behind the name Muzzy, according to an article in the Minnesota Star Tribune, is that he and his siblings and cousins \u200b\u200bused to watch a lot of Spanish cartoons featuring a little green monster named Muzzy, and that&#8217;s what everyone started calling him.<\/p>\n<p><em>This article originally appeared on Golfweek. <\/em><em>Longshot&#8217;s Mazie Donahue achieves 3M open cut and carries on her grandmother&#8217;s spirit into the weekend<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two weeks after winning the 2026 Minnesota State Open, Mazie Donahue is having a dream week at the PGA Tour&#8217;s 2026 3M Open. Donahue bounced back from a 73 on Thursday to a 63 on Friday, moving him inside the top 20 at the halfway point of the event at TPC Twin Cities. advertisement In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50602,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-50601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}