Courtesy of JOURNAL SPORTS
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Choudrant resident Sam Burns carded the second-best round of his 2026 PGA Tour season Sunday, with a 7-under 64 matched by only one other player in the 72-man field at the Truist Championship at Quail Hollow Golf Club.
It was the final round before this week’s PGA Championship, the Tour’s second major, outside of Philadelphia at Aronimink Golf Club.
Burns, 29, scuffled for the first three rounds last week, but sparkled Sunday to finish with a 74-69-75-64 – 262 card, 2-under for the Truist, good for a 37th place tie and an $82,000 check. It raised his season purse winnings to $2.4 million with eight cuts made in 11 starts.
The 64 was his best round in three months, since a 63 to begin the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am Feb. 12.
Burns overcame a bogey on each side with seven birdies and an eagle Sunday.
He rallied with birdies on the heels of both bogeys, at Nos. 7 and 13. He reeled off three straight birdies on 14-15-16, and finished with another on the difficult 18th, draining a 17-foot putt, one of his four birdie makes from between 10-18 feet.
Norway’s Kristoffer Reitan was the surprise winner at 15-under, in only his third PGA Tour start.
Burns, a Shreveport native who now plays out of Squire Creek Country Club in Choudrant, stands 30th in FedEx Cup rankings and 31st in the Official World Golf Rankings after Sunday.
