PGA Tour: Sam Burns takes himself out of mix on Saturday

Sam Burns was in the mix at this week’s PGA Tour stop through 36 holes. But the Corales Puntacana Resort and Club Championship struck back Saturday.

Sam Burns was seen as one of the players who could content at this week’s PGA Tour stop, the Corales Puntacana Resort and Club Championship. Two weeks ago at the Safeway Open, Burns started out hot and eventually finished in a tie for seventh place. It was the seventh time in his young career that Burns had finished inside the top 10 in a tour event.

The 24-year-old Burns, who hails from Shreveport, Louisiana, looked to take advantage this week in the Dominican Republic. The majority of the best players in the world were not playing this week, and Burns saw an opportunity to earn his first career PGA Tour win.

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And Burns used the first two days in paradise to put himself in the mix to win this week. He opened the event with a 3-under par 69 on Thursday. Then, he shot a 5-under par 67 on Friday to sit at 8-under par, just four shots behind Hudson Swafford with 36 holes to play.

However, Saturday was not Burns’ day. It started badly and just got worse as the day went on for the talented youngster.

Burns bogeyed the first hole of his round. However, he birdied the par-3 second hole to get back to even par on his round.

Four consecutive pars followed, then a birdie on the par-5 seventh hole. At that point, Burns was 1-under par through seven holes.

And that’s where the round started to fall apart. Burns would double bogey the eighth hole to go from 1-under par to 1-over par in one hole. A par on the ninth hole left Burns with a 1-over par 37 on his first nine.

The back side saw things go from bad to worse for Burns. He parred the 10th hole before a dreadful stretch of holes that took him completely out of the tournament mix.

Burns bogeyed the par-3 11th hole. Then he double bogeyed the par-5 12th hole. Suddenly, Burns was 4-over par.

But the bad trend wasn’t nearly over. Burns bogeyed the par-4 13th hole. He then bogeyed the par-5 14th hole to slip to 6-under par.

Burns stopped the bleeding with pars on the 15th and 16th holes. Then, he birdied the par-3 17th hole to get back to 5-over par. However, he would bogey the 18th hole to finish with a 6-over par 78.

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In the process, he fell from a tie for ninth place into a tie for 65th. He’s ahead of only four players with 18 holes to play.

What started as a week in which Burns could have seen his dreams come true has now turned into a nightmare after Saturday’s round.

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