Kurt Kitayama captures a crucial PGA Tour win at the 3M Open with a dominant weekend performance and renewed confidence

Kurt Kitayama, the winner of the 3M Open, helped himself tremendously on the PGA Tour money list with his victory and a $1,512,000 first-place check. So did Sam Stevens, who made a run of birdies late to give himself a chance to win, and ended in second place.

Kurt Kitayama picked up just his second PGA Tour title after outlasting Sam Stevens at the 3M Open, and in doing so, made a bit of history for himself. It had been more than a year since Kitayama’s first win at the Arnold Palmer Invitational back in 2023,