- Sam Burns began his playing career at Calvary Baptist Academy, where he won the individual state championship three times. He later played college golf at Louisiana State University, where his sophomore year saw him win four events in 15 starts.
- His T10 finish at the Web.com Tour Qualifying Tournament’s final round gave him guaranteed starts for the first 12 tournaments of the 2018 Web.com Tour season. He made his PGA Tour debut as a professional at the Sanderson Farms Championship in October 2017.
- Burns earned entrance for the Valspar Championship, where he finished T12, after finishing T2 at the Colombia Championship in February 2018 and T7 at the Honda Classic while playing with Tiger Woods in the final round.
As a result, he won his first professional match in the 2018 Savannah Golf Championship on the Web.com Tour by defeating Roberto Castro by one shot and earning a spot on the PGA Tour at the conclusion of the Web.com season.
Since the beginning of the 2018–19 season, he has competed on the PGA Tour; nevertheless, in February 2021, he ended alone in third place at the Genesis Invitational.
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He was in the lead by himself after the first three rounds of play, but he was eventually overtaken on the back nine of the final round. In May, he won the Valspar Championship for his first PGA Tour triumph.
He beat Keegan Bradley by three strokes after shooting a final-round 68, then two weeks later Burns lost to K.H. Lee at the AT&T Byron Nelson.
On October 3, 2021, Burns captured his second PGA Tour victory at the Sanderson Farms Championship in Jackson, Mississippi. He started the final round one shot back of the leader, but quickly grabbed control of the situation with a run of four birdies in as many holes on the back nine.
Sam defeated Davis Riley in a playoff to win the Valspar Championship for the second time in a row on March 20, 2022.
