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Connor Burgess Season 2018-19

SophomoreClass
Lynchburg, VirginiaHometown

2021-22 Season: Third on the team in scoring average with a 71.58 …  Tallied a team-best six top-20 finishes … Registered 22 par-or-better rounds ... Concluded six events in red figures - five of them coming in the first five events of the season … Opened the season at the Rod Myers Invitational with a season-best tied for eighth finish at 4-under 212 … Tied the program’s single-round scoring record (64) at the Bank of Tennessee Intercollegiate where he tied for ninth at 8-under 208 … Went 2-under 214 at the Wolfpack Invitational to tie for 13th … Earned a selection to the NCAA Columbus Regional where he tied for 58th at 10-over 223 ... VaSID All-State Second Team ... 2021-22 Srixon/Cleveland Golf All-America Scholar.

2021 Season: Competed in seven events, registering a 73.29 scoring average - third-best on the team ... Finished in the red three times, including a career-best 10-under 206 at the Stitch Intercollegiate to tie for ninth ... Notched eight rounds of par-or-better, with four of those being in the 60s ... Tied for 10th (-1, 215) at the Oldfield Invitational for his other top-10 of the season ... All-ACC Academic Team honoree ... 2020-21 Srixon/Cleveland Golf All-America Scholar.

Fall 2020 Season (Individual): Finished second, with playing partner Isaac Simmons, in the 55th Virginia State Golf Association Four-Ball Championship at Poplar Grove Golf Club in Amherst, Virginia.

2019-20 Season: Finished tied for eighth at the Wolfpack Intercollegiate in the fall ... Had his best finish of the year at the rain-shortened Dorado Beach Collegiate in Puerto Rico in February ... Posted a fifth place finish after a 4-under 68.

2018-19 Season: Named first team All-State by VaSID ... Named to 2019 All-ACC Academic men’s golf team ... Competed in all 11 events ... Finished 8th in the Grandover Collegiate and 9th at the ACC Championships ... Best finish came at the Schenkel Invitational where he came in 7th … Led the team in scoring with a 71.88 average … Finished 20th at the Stitch Intercollegiate and 25th at the Wolfpack Intercollegiate.

Summer 2019: Finished 25th at the 2019 Delta Dental State Open of Virginia ... Advanced to quarterfinal of the VSGA State Amateur ... Won the 2019 Fox Puss tournament in Lynchburg, Va.

2017-18 Season: Competed as a member of the starting lineup in every event as a freshman … Fifth on the team in scoring with a 74.00 average … Finished runner-up in just his second collegiate event, the Janney VCU Shootout … Finished 20th in the Bank of Tennessee at Blackthorn and 23rd in the Tar Heel Intercollegiate ... Best Spring 2018 finish was 22nd at Furman Intercollegiate.

Amateur: 2016 Fox Puss Invitational champion with rounds of 71-66 … Advanced to match play in the 2016 Virginia State Amateur, eventually losing to current Virginia Tech teammate Mark Lawrence Jr. ... Winner of the 2018 Kenridge Cup Invitational ... Advanced to match play at 2018 VSGA State Amateur, falling in semifinal.

Junior Golf/High School: Honor student and member of the National Honor Society at E.C. Glass High School … Four-year letter winner and golf team captain … Posted rounds of 70-70-71 to win the 2017 AJGA Greg Norman Junior Championship ... 2017 Junior Valentine Invitational champion … Finished third in the 2017 VSGA Junior Stroke Play Championship … Represented Virginia in the 2017 Virginias/Carolinas team matches … Finished third in the 2017 Scott Robertson Memorial Golf Tournament … Named 2016 Virginia State Golf Association Junior Boys Golfer of the Year … First team All-State selection … Led E.C. Glass to the 2016 VHSL 4A State Golf Championship, finishing third individually … The only player from Virginia to qualify for both the 2016 U.S. Junior and U.S. Amateur Championships, earning medalist honors in the amateur qualifying … Represented Virginia in both the 2016 Virginia/Carolinas Junior Matches and Mid-Atlantic Junior Invitational … Finished fifth in the 2014 U.S. Kids Teen World Championship and was a Junior World Cup qualifier, playing on the victorious U.S. squad … Father, Todd, played golf at Radford University.