NEW ORLEANS — Billy Horschel, the only player to claim both individual and team titles at the Zurich Classic, will again pair with two-time PGA Tour winner and former LSU All-American Sam Burns in this year’s tournament.
Horschel is ranked 16th in the world and Burns is right behind him at 17th.
Horschel has won six times on the PGA Tour and is the only player to win both an individual and a team title at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans. He scored his first career Tour victory in 2013 at the Zurich Classic.
He followed up his first win with one of the best closing stretches in PGA Tour history in the 2014 FedExCup Playoffs. He finished second in the Deutsche Bank Championship, then went on to win the BMW Championship and capped the playoffs with a win at the Tour Championship by Coca-Cola to take the overall FedExCup.
At 27, he became the youngest winner of the FedExCup. His final round of 68 in the Tour Championship was his 12th consecutive round in the 60s, the longest streak of sub-70 rounds in PGA Tour history.
In 2018, Horschel teamed with Scott Piercy to win the Zurich Classic again. Team Horschel beat the team of Pat Perez and Jason Dufner (himself a former Zurich Classic winner) by one stroke.
Sam Burns held the lead in four different tournaments last season before breaking through with a win at the 2021 Valspar Championship. He had tied for fourth in the Zurich Classic with Horschel the week before his maiden win at Valspar.
He nearly won last year’s World Golf Championships-FedEx St. Jude Invitational before losing in a three-person playoff.
He then started this season with a victory at the Sanderson Farms Championship. So far this season, he has tied for fifth in the CJ Cup Summit, tied for seventh at the Hewlett Packard Enterprise Houston Open and tied for ninth in the Arnold Palmer Invitational.
In his short PGA Tour career, he has recorded 18 top-10 finishes in only 95 starts.
Playing for LSU, Burns made first-team All-American in 2016-17 and was named Jack Nicklaus National Player of the Year in the NCAA. He represented the United States on the winning Arnold Palmer Cup team in 2017.
A prodigy of former LSU great and Zurich Classic champion David Toms, Burns was honored by the AJGA as Rolex Junior Player of the Year in 2014.
The Zurich Classic is the only team tournament on the PGA TOUR season. Since launching the team format in 2017, the Zurich Classic of New Orleans has drawn some of the highest-ranking fields for any regular-season tournament on the PGA TOUR. Cameron Smith, who this week won The Players Championship and vaulted to 6th in the world, will team again with fellow Australian Marc Leishman to defend the title they won last year at the Zurich Classic. Smith is the only two-time team winner of the Zurich Classic.
In 2021, after cancellation of the 2020 tournament, the Fore!Kids Foundation generated an all-time record $2.3 million in charitable giving for children’s charities in the New Orleans and Baton Rouge metro areas.
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