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Sunday 3 October 2021PGA TourYear in Review
Burns wins Sanderson Farms Championship
The Country Club of Jackson, Jackson, Mississippi · Thursday 30 September to Sunday 3 October 2021 · Sam Burns’s win no. 2 on the PGA Tour · purse $7,000,000 USD · Sanderson Farms
The headline is set by GNN from the record. Reports from the papers of the day are below as they are found.
The weather
11 h 35 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 53° up at noon, and that night a waning crescent moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R128°/22°C · wind 12 km/h SE, gusts 27 · 39.7 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R230°/21°C · wind 12 km/h SE, gusts 28 · 0.1 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R328°/22°C · wind 12 km/h SSE, gusts 24 · 3.5 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R428°/22°C · wind 12 km/h SSW, gusts 31 · 9.6 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
The name over time
Not yet traced: its earlier names, sponsors and courses come with research.
The ones it got away from
- Nick Watney USA · 267closed 65 for a share of second, one behind Sam Burns pulls away down stretch to win Sanderson Farms Championship (Associated Press, ESPN)
- Cameron Young USA · 267bogeyed the 14th from a fairway bunker; closed 68 to tie for second, one behind Sam Burns pulls away down stretch to win Sanderson Farms Championship (Associated Press, ESPN)
144 started · cut -5, 68 made it
Same week
Nothing else in our record that week.
PGA Tour event
Sanderson Farms Championship
The Country Club of Jackson, The Country Club of Jackson, Jackson, Mississippi
4 of 5 researched
Winner
Sam Burns
Runner-up not yet researched.
From the papers
ASAP Sports (interview transcript)
3 October 2021
Still looking out there at the golf course like kind of trying to figure out what happened.
Associated Press via ESPN
3 October 2021
I love being in contention, I love feeling the nerves, so it was fun today. I enjoyed it, even though it might not have looked like it
Top 10
| Pos | Player | Rounds | Total | To par |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sam Burns | 68 · 66 · 65 · 67 | 266 | −22 |
| T2 | Nick Watney | 65 · 66 · 71 · 65 | 267 | −21 |
| T2 | Cameron Young | 67 · 65 · 67 · 68 | 267 | −21 |
| T4 | Henrik Norlander | 68 · 66 · 70 · 64 | 268 | −20 |
| T4 | Andrew Landry | 68 · 68 · 66 · 66 | 268 | −20 |
| T4 | Hayden Buckley | 67 · 65 · 70 · 66 | 268 | −20 |
| T4 | Trey Mullinax | 70 · 66 · 64 · 68 | 268 | −20 |
| T8 | Si Woo Kim | 66 · 71 · 66 · 66 | 269 | −19 |
| T8 | Seth Reeves | 71 · 66 · 63 · 69 | 269 | −19 |
| T8 | Sahith Theegala | 64 · 67 · 67 · 71 | 269 | −19 |
The golfer
born 1996-07-23, Shreveport, Louisiana; USA; turned pro 2017; age 25 that week; tour wins to date: 2; world No. 25 that week (OWGR rankBefore as stated by the OWGR player profile events table).
What’s in the bag
No bag on file yet