The 3M Open this week will bring the PGA Tour back to Minnesota while honoring local golf luminaries like Tom Lehman and Tim Herron.
Decades before the 3M Championship became the 3M Open, a local golfer stopped by 3M headquarters to pitch a local tourney. That golfer deserves to be remembered, as well.
Joel Goldstrand played on Worthington High’s 1957 state championship golf team. After a life-changing bit of serendipity, he would play on two national championship teams for the University of Houston, leave law school at the University of Minnesota to join the PGA Tour, finish 12th in the U.S. Open at Hazeltine National in 1970, become the pro at Minneapolis Golf Club and then become one of the most prominent course designers in state history.