BLAINE, Minn. -- D.A. Weibring fired rounds of 65-66-67 in 2007 at the TPC Twin Cities to win the 2007 3M Championship by a stroke over Jay Haas. The victory was Weibring's fourth since he joined the Champions Tour in 2003.

A strong field will be on hand in the Minneapolis suburbs this week for the 2008 edition. Following the 3M Championship, the Champions Tour will hold three consecutive major championships -- the Senior British Open, the U.S. Senior Open and the JELD-WEN Tradition -- spread over four weeks.

D.A. Weibring birdied the last three holes to overtake a hard-charging Jay Haas to capture the 2007 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.

The 3M Championship has been a fixture on the Champions Tour schedule for 16 years and is one of the circuit's longest-running events in the same metropolitan area.

Dan Forsman will make his first appearance on the Champions Tour this week. Forsman has the opportunity to become the first player since Mark Wiebe (2007 SAS Championship), and 13th overall in Champions Tour history, to win in his first start. Forsman becomes eligible for the circuit on Tuesday of tournament week (July 15).

Forsman's last of five career wins on the PGA Tour came at the 2002 SEI Pennsylvania Classic. Earlier this year, Forsman tied for 18th at the Stanford St. Jude Classic for his top 2008 performance.

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.

Peter Jacobsen will make his second start of the Champions Tour since undergoing left-knee replacement surgery in March. Jacobsen returned to the Champions Tour at the Commerce Bank Championship two weeks ago.

In the first 10 years of the 3M Championship, the tournament winner posted at least one round in the 70s. However, the last five winners at the TPC Twin Cities have all had three consecutive scores in the 60s. D.A. Weibring's final-round 67 last year matched David Edwards' score the year prior as the lowest by a winner Sunday since the event has been held in Blaine.

For the consecutive straight year, the Greats of Golf Challenge will be part of the 3M Championship schedule. This year's two-man team, 36-hole, and better-ball exhibition will take place on Saturday and Sunday of tournament week. Players invited to participate include World Golf Hall of Famers Arnold Palmer, Chi Chi Rodriguez, Lee Trevino, Billy Casper, Gene Littler and Tony Jacklin, as well as 1971 Masters champion Charles Coody, Miller Barber and Don January, both major championship winners on the Champions Tour.