CHAMPIONSHIPS
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Sarah Burnham’s Flying High
MSU star wins 20th Women’s Open in her first pro event
As a golf professional, Sarah Burnham is batting a thousand.
In her first tournament as a pro, Burnham shot 69-68-137 (-7) to win the
20th Connecticut Women’s Open Championship at Innis Arden Golf Club by six
shots over first-round leader Elsa Diaz. Burnham, a standout at Michigan State,
was the only player in the field to better par on both days of the event when,
thanks to difficult greens and especially lush rough, only seven rounds over the
two days did so. It was a leader board with little red, and the rough, from Burn-
ham’s point of view, was the main culprit.
“If you were in the rough, you made bogey. I bogeyed the third after I hit
my drive in the left rough. From that point on I just focused on hitting fairways.”
18 | CSGA Links // July 2018
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