Notes: Seniors in Twin Cities with Milwaukee in mind

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• Five-time PGA TOUR winner Dan Forsman will make his Champions Tour debut this week at the 3M Championship. He warmed up for this appearance by finishing tied for 72nd last week at the John Deere Classic on the PGA TOUR.

Charles

• Bob Charles, who was recently elected to the World Golf Hall of Fame, has an amazing record this year. The 72-year-old from New Zealand has shot his age at least one time in every event he's played this year. He has two starts on the Champions Tour, five starts on the European Senior Tour and one on the European Tour.

• The Champions Tour is in Minnesota this week, but don't blame a number of players for thinking about the PGA TOUR stop in Milwaukee. No less than eight participants in this week's 3M Championship are former winners in Milwaukee?Dave Eichelberger, Jeff Sluman and Dave Stockton each won twice, while Jim Colbert, Jay Haas, Gary Hallberg, Morris Hatalsky and Jim Thorpe each won once.

• D.A. Weibring birdied the last three holes to overtake a hard-charging Jay Haas to capture the 3M Championship, his fourth career Champions Tour victory. Standing in the 18th fairway needing birdie to win, and with a spot of mud on his ball, Weibring chose to lay up on the par-5 hole. After a short pitch to within 10 feet of the hole, Weibring made the winning putt.

Langer

• The list of players with a pair of victories in 2008 stands at five, the most since the 2000 season. Rookie Bernhard Langer has already won twice this year, as have Jay Haas, Scott Hoch, Tom Watson and Denis Watson.

• There have been six first-time winners in 3M Championship history, one short of the mark established by the AT&T Champions Classic in 2005 for most first-timers by a tournament in Champions Tour history. The last player to win the 3M Championship for his first Champions Tour victory was David Edwards in 2006.

• Hale Irwin, the only multiple winner of the 3M Championship (1997, 1999, 2002) is bidding for a fourth career victory in the Twin Cities. If successful, the 63-year-old World Golf Hall of Famer would surpass Mike Fetchick at the oldest winner in Champions Tour history. Fetchick captured the 1985 Hilton Head Seniors International on his 63rd birthday. Irwin, the Champions Tour's all-time victory leader, with 45 titles, turned 63 on June 3.