Sarah Burnham Set to Participate in World University Championships
6/22/2016 12:00:00 AM | Women's Golf
EAST LANSING, Mich. - Michigan State women's golfer Sarah Burnham will represent the United States at the 2016 World University Championships from June 23-26. The annual event will take place at the Planchetorte golf course in Brive, France, and feature golfers from all over the world, including China, South Africa, Switzerland and Germany.
Burnham is one of just three women representing the United States and will be joined by Texas Tech's Gabby Barker and Northwestern's Stephanie Lau.
Live scoring of the tournament can be found here along with additional tournament updates on twitter @WUCGolf2016. The tournament starts Thursday, June 23 at 7:30 a.m. local time.
Burnham was named to the Women's Golf Coaches Association (WGCA) honorable mention All-America team earlier this year. She closed the 2015-16 season with the lowest scoring average (72.42) in school history (previous record: 73.53 by Caroline Powers in 2010-11) and seven top-10 finishes, including two tournament wins (Landfall Tradition in October and Sugar Bowl Intercollegiate in February) and two runner-up finishes (Tar Heel Invitational in October and Lady Buckeye Invitational in April).
A native of Maple Grove, Minnesota, Burnham qualified to play in the NCAA Championships after winning a two-hole playoff in the NCAA Stanford Regional. Burnham tied for 45th at nationals after shooting a 4-over-par 220 through three rounds, but did not advance to the fourth and final round of stroke play, missing the cut by just two shots.
In addition to scoring average, Burnham also ranked first on the team in birdies (124), under-par rounds (15), and top-10 finishes (7). She tied for ninth place at the NCAA Stanford Regional with a 2-over-par 215, which was the lowest three-round total ever by a Spartan at NCAA Regionals (previous: 216 by Lindsey Solberg in 2012).
A first-team All-Big Ten and All-Region selection, Burnham tied for seventh at the Big Ten Championships with a 4-under-par 212, which was the lowest 54-hole score ever by a Spartan at the conference tournament and tied for the eighth-lowest overall in school history.
Burnham's stellar season also included the best single-round ever at Michigan State when she shot a 66 both at the Mary Fossum Invitational in September and the Landfall Tradition in October.
Burnham claimed medalist honors at the Landfall Tradition with a career-low 5-under 211, which tied for the fifth-lowest 54-hole score in school history and earned her Golfweek National Player of the Week and Big Ten Golfer of the Week honors. She also won the Sugar Bowl Intercollegiate in February with a 211 and was named Big Ten Golfer of the Week for the second time of the season.
Burnham will be the eighth player from the Spartan women's golf program to participate in the World University Golf Championship, joining Lisa Marino (1987), Kasey Gant (1998), Allison Fouch (2002), Sarah Martin (2004), Sara Brown (2006), Laura Kueny (2010) and Caroline Powers (2011).
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