Former LSU golfer and Shreveport native Sam Burns came up one stroke shy at the U.S. Open yesterday. Burns entered the final round of the tournament trailing the leader and eventual winner Wyndham Clark by seven shots. He finished his day three under while Clark shot three over, but Burns said he knew it would have taken something special.
“If I had been a little bit closer and maybe could have got ahead of him at some point, there could have been a different outcome, possibly, but at the end of the day, he played amazing,” said Burns. “It was his week and you got to tip your cap to him.
The win would have been Burns’s first major title. At last year’s Open, he was the sole leader heading into the final round at four under par but shot eight over on his final 18 and finished 7th. Burns said this year’s championship had a different feeling.
“Last year at Oakmont, I felt like more I lost the golf tournament,” he said. “I certainly don’t feel that way today. I think I gave it my best, and I did everything I could to have a chance to win.”
After the tournament, Burns shared an emotional embrace with his father. Burns is the father of a two-year-old boy with another child on the way himself. He teared up as he reflected on what could have been.
“It’s just not very often we have a chance to win a major on a Father’s day,” he said. ” I think just the weight of that and knowing what that memory could have been like, it would have been really special.”
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