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MCKINNEY, Texas – Sam Burns is rounding into form nicely with golf’s second major championship just around the corner.
Sunday, the Choudrant resident posted his eighth straight sub-70 round, a closing 65 that surged him into a tie for fifth place – his best finish of the 2025 PGA Tour season – at The CJ Cup Byron Nelson.
His 67-67-68-65 – 267 card came on the heels of another set of four scores in the 60s at his last start, the RBC Heritage wrapping up April 20. He tied for 13th in that event. Until Sunday’s charge, his best finish of 2025 was a tie for eighth in the season debut, The Sentry, on Jan. 5.
Since the beginning of March until the RBC Heritage, Burns had only one round in the 60s in 14 outings and missed three straight cuts until playing all four days at The Masters. He’s been under 70 every round since.
Burns, a Shreveport native who now plays out of Choudrant’s Squire Creek Country Club, had one of Sunday’s best rounds. Eleven of the 70 players shot 65 or better, notably Scottie Scheffler, who closed with a 63 and won by a whopping eight shots with a PGA Tour record-tying 31-under score.
Burns, who was runner up in the 2021 edition on the same TPC Craig Ranch course, brought home a $305,972 payout to raise his season winnings to $1.7 million.
He will play this week in the Truist Championship in Philadelphia, then head down to Charlotte for the season’s second major, the PGA Championship, May 15-18.
