{"id":952596,"date":"2026-07-22T17:33:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T17:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/952596\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T17:33:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T17:33:20","slug":"scottie-scheffler-asks-kevin-oconnell-about-vikings-qb-competition-at-3m-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/952596\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottie Scheffler asks Kevin O\u2019Connell about Vikings QB competition at 3M Open"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Scottie \"Scottie Scottie Scheffler, Kevin O’Connell talk Vikings QBs at 3M Open<\/a> <\/p>\n

Scottie Scheffler, the No. 1 player on the PGA Tour, is in Minnesota this week for the 3M Open at TPC Twin Cities in Blaine. He got paired with Vikings coach Kevin O’Connell in Wednesday’s Pro-Am. The two talked football, and the team’s quarterback situation.<\/p>\n

BLAINE, Minn. (FOX 9) – TPC Twin Cities in Blaine is hosting the 3M Open this week<\/a>, and many of the top golfers on the PGA Tour are in Minnesota.<\/p>\n

One of them is Scottie Scheffler, the No. 1 player in the world. He got to Minnesota on Monday, played nine holes on Tuesday and played in the 3M Open Pro-Am on Wednesday with Minnesota Vikings\u2019 head coach Kevin O\u2019Connell.<\/p>\n

Scottie Scheffler, Kevin O\u2019Connell talk QBs <\/p>\n

The backstory:<\/p>\n

Scheffler spoke with reports after the Pro-Am and said they did talk about the Vikings\u2019 quarterback situation. It\u2019s been the offseason talker as Kyler Murray and J.J. McCarthy are in a competition for the starting job, to the point where they are splitting reps with the first-team offense in practice.<\/p>\n

“He said yeah we got a couple quarterbacks, so there will be some competition and stuff like that. I\u2019m sure he\u2019ll be answering plenty of questions about QBs over the next few weeks as they get things rolling,” Scheffler said.<\/p>\n

It would be almost impossible for the two to not talk football, but Scheffler didn\u2019t want to pry too much.<\/p>\n

“I love the NFL, I definitely wasn\u2019t going to just start hammering him with questions about football. He seemed like a really nice guy,” Scheffler said.<\/p>\n

So no, O\u2019Connell didn\u2019t tell Scheffler who will win the job. And if he did, Scheffler didn\u2019t offer it up.<\/p>\n

Scheffler\u2019s Minnesota debut <\/p>\n

Why you should care:<\/p>\n

Scheffler is making his 3M Open debut, and it might be his first time in Minnesota. He said he took his family to downtown Minneapolis earlier this week, and they\u2019ve been taken care of by the tournament ever since. When asked why he chose to play this year, he said it was a better fit in his schedule. He didn\u2019t want to risk taking three weeks off before the FedEx Cup Playoffs, and possibly get rusty.<\/p>\n

“Golf course seems really nice, greens are really good, rough is pretty healthy so fairways are going to be at a premium this week. Golf course is in really nice shape,” Scheffler said. “Three weeks off before the playoffs didn\u2019t seem like the most ideal way to set up my schedule. This was a tournament I\u2019ve heard a lot of good things about, and so far everything seems pretty true. I\u2019m excited to get the week started.”<\/p>\n

What’s next:<\/p>\n

Scheffler is paired with Hideki Matsuyama and Sungjae Im for the first two rounds of the 3M Open. They\u2019ll tee of No. 1 at 7:29 a.m. Thursday, and No. 1 at 12:44 p.m. Friday.<\/p>\n

3M<\/a>Blaine<\/a>Minnesota Vikings<\/a>Sports<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scottie Scheffler, Kevin O’Connell talk Vikings QBs at 3M Open Scottie Scheffler, the No. 1 player on the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":952597,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2073],"tags":[125804,125805,14742,7,233,259,2529,12933,6,8024,9,800,234],"class_list":["post-952596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-minnesota-vikings","tag-3m","tag-anoka-county","tag-blaine","tag-football","tag-minnesota","tag-minnesota-vikings","tag-minnesotavikings","tag-mn","tag-nfl","tag-organization","tag-sports","tag-us","tag-vikings"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116964832750982401","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=952596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/952597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=952596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=952596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=952596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}