A few weeks ago, it was Scottie Scheffler earning one of U.S. Ryder Cup captain Steve Stricker’s captain’s picks, while another 25-year-old rising star, Sam Burns, was on the receiving end of a phone call notifying him that he wouldn’t be teeing it up at Whistling Straits.
Now, Burns, who is younger than Scheffler by just over a month, has passed his contemporary in the Official World Golf Ranking after Sunday’s victory at the Sanderson Farms Championship. Burns’ one-shot win in Jackson, Mississippi, moved the LSU product from 25th to 18th in the world, now four ahead of Scheffler, who didn’t play and dropped a spot to 22nd.