Sarah Burnham Named Big Ten and Golfweek National Golfer of the Week

Burnham claimed medalist honors at the Landfall Tradition after firing a career-low 5-under 211.

EAST LANSING, Mich. – After her record-setting performance at the Landfall Tradition, sophomore Sarah Burnham has been named the Golfweek National Player of the Week and the Big Ten Women’s Golfer of the Week.

Burnham claimed medalist honors for the first time in her collegiate career at the prestigious 18-team tournament last weekend with a career-low 5-under-par 211, which tied for the fourth-lowest score in school history. She matched her single-round school record with a 66 in Sunday’s final round after carding a 71 on Friday and a 74 on Saturday. Burnham entered the final round in 11th place but vaulted up the leaderboard after recording six birdies, 12 pars and no bogeys on Sunday.

Burnham defeated UCF's Ashley Holder and South Carolina's Katelyn Dambaugh by one stroke and also beat Duke's Leona Maguire, the 2014-15 WGCA and Golfweek National Player of the Year, by two strokes. Maguire edged Burnham by one shot to win the Tar Heel Invitational on Oct. 11.

Burnham posted three top-10 finishes in MSU's four fall tournaments (sixth at Fossum; second at Tar Heel; first at Landfall Tradition). The Maple Grove, Minnesota, native finished the fall season with a team-low 71.75 scoring average and a team-best 46 birdies and two eagles. She set an MSU and Forest Akers West course single-round record with a 6-under 66 in the first round of the Mary Fossum Invitational on Sept. 12. Burnham also leads the team with five rounds of under-par in four tournaments.

Michigan State, which finished fourth in the Landfall Tradition after shooting a program-record 275 (-13) in the final round, returns to action for the spring season Feb. 7-9 at the Regional Challenge in Palos Verdes, California.