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The 2021 Valspar Championship Belongs to Sam Burns

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Published
05/05/2021

A three-under 68 sealed the deal for Sam Burns as he abandoned former PGA Champion Keegan Bradley and claimed a three-shot victory at the Valspar Championship.

Sam Burns locked in his long-awaited maiden PGA Tour Championship victory after a final-round battle with Keegan Bradley, who subsequently sunk his ball into the water off the 13th tee, costing the former title holder whilst giving Burns the chance to run away.

The twenty-four-year-old from Louisiana, USA, hit two crucial birdies that led to the winning 3-under 68 and a three-shot victory this past Sunday at Innisbrook Resort’s Copperhead Course Palm Harbor, Fla. The young and talented golfer wasn’t going to let this one slip after failing to convert 54-hole leads at both the Genesis Invitational in February and the Vivint Houston Open last year. Burns believed his championship gains were inevitable following these super-tight losses, wasting a great start at the season-opening Safeway Open. He finished with a 2-over 72 to tie for seventh in the Houston Open and had already lost a two-shot lead at Rivera, one spot short of the playoff.

“Those moments in the past, you learn a lot,” Burns expressed. “This week, coming down the stretch, I tried to stick to our process.”

Burns collected fifty-four official world golf ranking points and will receive a considerable advance in his world ranking following the Valspar victory. In addition, he picked up 500 FedEx Cup points, which draws him closer to a position in the Tour Championship.

Unable to hold back the tears, Burns let his emotions flow when he sunk the irrelevant bogey during the final hole, with his wife, family and friends rushing the green to embrace the moment with him.

“I’ve worked so hard for this moment,” Burns said. “They’ve all sacrificed so much.”

Burns walked away with $1,242,000 of the prize pool, which totaled $6.900,000. The final day was boiling down to a clash between himself and Keegan Bradley from a total of sixty-nine players. A four-shot lead with two holes remaining and most keen eyes already knew the result, with nobody else having much of a chance.

Online betting enthusiasts also reaped the rewards, the available odds-on Burns at +9000 netted $100 bettors, an excellent return of $9000.

 

The Details of Sam Burns Victory

Burns and his main competition Bradley both pulled away on Sunday afternoon; a Burns birdie on eleven saw the two tied at seventeen under. The pair made pars on twelve, but thirteen is where the tide changed. Bradley hit his tee shot on the 182-yard par-three into the water, just short of the green, making a double bogey. Burns made par and then birdied the fourteenth to claim the three-shot lead. Bradley had ample opportunity to climb back with Burns mishap on fifteen, he hit a bogey, but Bradley went on to miss a four-foot shot for par and miserably could not get a stroke. Burns would then seal the deal on sixteen, an eighteen-foot birdie extended his lead to four. The eighteenth saw another Burns bogey, but there was nothing to dramatize as the new champion was crowned with a lead of four.

Bradley let the championship slip on the thirteenth hole; there was no hiding from the water ball that assisted Burns with a two-shot lead. This moment of the game was crucial in Burns' success.

Max Home tied the lead with a birdie on the par-5 opening hole, but he failed to make another birdie the rest of the day; several chances around the turn were given up, which ended his hopes of a double bogey on the par-3 fifteenth without slipping into the water – he shot for seventy-four.

Cameron Tringale looked promising at times but failed to get into the swing of things (pun intended). He ended with a sixty-eight shot and finished joint third in the leader board alongside Vik tor Hovland. 

 

The Importance of Sam Burns Title Win

Burns claimed his first PGA Tour victory, aged twenty-four, and it was his seventy-sixth career start. Before the Valspar, the best finishes we saw from him were a third-place finish earlier this year and another third place in 2019. He’s now ranked in the top one-hundred Official World Golf Rankings, exempting him through 2022/2023 seasons. The cherry topping gives him a ticket for the 2021 PGA Championship at Kiawah Island.

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