 You may have caught golf fever this past weekend watching Brooks Kepka win the US Open for the second straight year. It's been almost a decade since the 2009 PGA championship came to Hazeltine the last time an event was held in Minnesota. But today rumors finally turned into reality and the PGA Tour is coming back. Today the PGA Tour announced that next year begins a seven-year agreement for TPC Twin Cities to host the 3M Open. While the dates of the tournaments have not yet been announced, you can expect it to be either in July or in June. The last time the PGA Tour made regular stops in Minnesota 49 years ago, making the work needed to bring the tour back all the more worth it. You felt like giving up, but the place deserves it. Minnesota deserves it, 3M deserves it. The course has hosted a senior tour event for the past 25 years, but some changes will be needed to bring the course up to PGA Tour standards, starting off with tightening the fairways and lengthening the course. It's a very good course, but when you take it to the PGA Tour level, the competitiveness needs to go up. The dates will be finalized in the coming weeks when the PGA Tour announces their full 2019 schedule. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.