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Sam Burns was sitting on the porcelain throne when Ryder Cup Captain Zach Johnson invited him on the team

Words don’t really do it justice.

ROME — Sam Burns won’t be sitting during the first session of the Ryder Cup – in fact he will be playing in the opening match of the opening session – but he was sitting when he learned he had made the U.S. team. And not just anywhere. He was sitting on the toilet.

Speaking to SiriusXM’s Taylor Zarzour, Burns recounted – TMI alert – how U.S. Captain Zach Johnson called him with the good news that he was one of six captain’s picks for the U.S. 12-man team.

Johnson sent him a text Sunday night after the Tour Championship letting him know that he should expect a call the following day. After a restless night of staring at the ceiling, Burns was waiting to for his phone to ring and told his wife, Carolyn, that they should get out of the house to pass the time. When they got back, Burns felt the call of nature, and – of course – that’s when his phone rang.

“Literally as soon as I sit down, Justin (Thomas) started texting me, like, ‘Have you heard anything yet?’ While I’m responding to him, Zach called me,” Burns recounted.

Burns, who received a call that he didn’t make the team two years earlier, said he was “mid poop” when Johnson invited him to be a member of his team and he started crying.

“While I’m on the phone, I’m trying to wipe, I’m trying to tell Carolyn, she came around the corner and I gave her a thumbs up,” Burns said. “That’s real life right there.”

Indeed, it is.

Words don’t really do it justice. You can watch Burns tell his story from the throne here.

Brooks Koepka, Sam Burns debut mullets just in time for 2023 Ryder Cup

Koepka and Burns are ready for Rome.

If you needed another reminder that time is a flat circle, the mullet has made an incredible comeback over the last year or so.

Cameron Smith has been rocking one for a few years now, and another LIV Golf member has joined him in the club.

Brooks Koepka, who is set to represent the United States at next week’s Ryder Cup in Rome at Marco Simone Golf and Country Club from Sept. 29-Oct. 1, debuted his new look in Chicago at Rich Harvest Farms on Friday at LIV’s 12th event of its season.

Koepka will be the lone LIV player at this year’s Ryder Cup, earning one of Zach Johnson’s captain’s picks thanks to a T-2 finish at the Masters, a fifth major championship win at the PGA Championship and a T-17 performance at the U.S. Open.

Sam Burns, another captain’s pick from ZJ, will also be rocking a mullet in Rome.

As Koepka said, freedom flow.

Former LSU golfer Sam Burns named to 2023 US Ryder Cup team

Sam Burns becomes the third LSU golfer to appear in a Ryder Cup.

Former LSU and current PGA Tour golfer [autotag]Sam Burns[/autotag] will be representing the United States at the 2023 Ryder Cup at Marco Simone Golf and Country Club in Rome, where the US team will take on the European Team.

US captain Zach Johnson announced the selections on Tuesday.

“There’s no higher honor than to represent your country. To be a part of this Ryder Cup and tee up alongside these world class players is extremely exciting,” said Burns to the media at the captain’s picks announcement, according to an LSU release.

It will be Burns’ rookie appearance on the 12-man Ryder Cup roster, though he did represent his country at the Junior Ryder Cup in 2014. He’ll be the third overall LSU golfer to compete in a Ryder Cup, joining David Toms (2002, 2004, 2006) and Fred Haas (1953).

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Meet the 12 players and captains representing Team USA at the 2023 Ryder Cup in Italy

Get to know the 12 players on Team USA for the 2023 Ryder Cup.

Ladies and gentlemen, meet Team USA.

After the conclusion of the 2023 BMW Championship the six automatic qualifiers for the U.S. team bound for Marco Simone Golf and Country Club and the 2023 Ryder Cup were confirmed. Following the Tour Championship, captain Zach Johnson announced his six captain’s picks that would join the team near Rome, Italy.

Of the 12 players on the roster, four will make their debut in the biennial event against the Europeans, who haven’t lost on home soil since 1993.

Get to know all 12 players and the captains who will represent the red, white and blue in the 44th playing of the Ryder Cup.

MORE: Check out Team USA’s Ryder Cup uniforms

Making the case for each potential U.S. Ryder Cup captain’s pick for Italy

Does Justin Thomas get the nod on past performances? Will Brooks Koepka or any other LIV players be selected?

Zach Johnson has some choices to make.

On Tuesday the U.S. Ryder Cup captain will make his six selections and complete the 12-player team bound for Marco Simone Golf and Country Club, Sept. 29-Oct. 1.

Locked in as automatic qualifiers are world No. 1 Scottie Scheffler, U.S. Open champion Wyndham Clark, Open champion Brian Harman, Patrick Cantlay, Max Homa and Xander Schauffele.

But who will join them? Does Justin Thomas get the nod based on past performances? Will Brooks Koepka or any other LIV players be selected? How about a 43-year-old debutant in Lucas Glover?

Let’s make the case for the potential captain’s picks for the 2023 Ryder Cup.

Sam Burns lights up BMW Championship with course record-tying 62

“I didn’t want to tie him, I wanted to beat him,” Burns said. “But I’ll take it.”

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OLYMPIA FIELDS, Ill. – Max Homa has company as the course record holder at Olympia Fields Country Club.

Sam Burns matched Homa’s 62 of a day earlier, making four birdies on each side en route to a bogey-free round.

“I didn’t want to tie him, I wanted to beat him,” Burns said. “But I’ll take it.”

Burns had only made six birdies through his first 36 holes of the BMW Championship and shot 71-70 to trail by 11 and teed off early on Moving Day. At the midway point, he was projected to be one of two players to be bounced out of the top 30 and go from Atlanta bound to booking a one-way ticket home on Sunday. Before the round, he told caddie Travis Perkins and his team, “I just want to come out here and play a confident round of golf, whether that’s 72 or whatever it was today. I just want to go out there and play with confidence, play free, and see what happens.”

That strategy worked like a charm on Saturday as Burns made birdie on the first hole, went back-to-back at Nos. 4 and 5 and peeled off four more in a five-hole stretch starting at the ninth. His favorite of the bunch? Holing a sand shot at the par-3 13th from the front-right greenside bunker.

“It was pretty easy,” he said. “It was on the up slope. Had enough green, a little back into the wind. Just had to clip it, and I did.”

Burns’s rise up the leaderboard has him projected to be No. 18 in the FedEx Cup and on his way to the Tour Championship next week in Atlanta. But Burns said he isn’t too concerned about that.

“If I make it, great. If I don’t, I get to go home and be home an extra week,” he said. “Whatever happens, I know the Lord has already planned it out, and I can be good with whatever happens.”

But making the U.S. Ryder Cup team is another story.

“I want nothing more,” he said.

Matt Fitzpatrick, Justin Rose move up in 2023 FedEx Cup projected standings

Here’s a closer look at those golfers moving up, and those moving down, in the projected standings.

After 36 holes at Olympia Fields’ North Course near Chicago, time is running out for those angling to make the Tour Championship.

The BMW Championship is the second of three FedEx Cup Playoffs events but only the top 30 golfers will move on to East Lake Golf Club for the season finale. There are bragging rights when you make it to Atlanta but there’s also a whopping $18 million first-place prize at stake.

For each golfer who moves into the top 30, there has to be one falling out. Looking at the PGA Tour’s projected FedEx Cup standings after two rounds at the BMW, there are two of each.

Watch: Sam Burns gets no relief after gravity-defying bunker shot, expresses frustration post-round

Burns’ ball defied logic.

GULLANE, Scotland — Sam Burns would like a word with Sir Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein to discuss gravity, the theory of relativity and just how in the world his golf ball managed to defy the law of physics, let alone logic, and stay in the revetted face of a nasty fairway bunker on the 10th hole during the third round of the 2023 Genesis Scottish Open.

“Never seen anything like it,” Burns told Golfweek after the round.

A wayward tee shot on the par-5 at The Renaissance Club caught the fairway bunker, and the 26-year-old American attempted to hit a wedge to safety but caught it a groove low and flew it into the steep lip of the bunker. Rather than embed in the sod, it came out of its pitch mark, but somehow didn’t roll back in the sand, hanging on by a thread.

Burns called for a ruling and a lengthy discussion ensued. Apparently, it embedded into new sod but since it wasn’t in a seam, relief wasn’t granted.

After the round, PGA Tour rules official Steve Rintoul, who had been one of two officials on the scene, spoke to Burns, who expressed his frustration, as they rehashed the situation for more than 10 minutes.

“In my opinion, I think it should’ve been relief,” Burns said, noting his disappointment that DP Tour chief referee Mark Litton made the final ruling over walkie talkie without being on the scene. “Just because there was some there that was different than anywhere else on the golf course.”

Brian Harman, one of the competitors in Burns’s threesome, agreed.

“Sam didn’t have footing to hit the shot. That top part should’ve been ground under repair. He got really unlucky.”

From an awkward stance, Burns took a hack with his gap wedge and couldn’t blast out of the bunker.

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The worst of it was behind him, but when all was said and done, it added up to the dreaded snow man. The triple bogey dropped Burns, who began the day two strokes off the lead at 8 under, out of contention. He shot 71 and enters the final round T-18 and trailing by six strokes.

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100 days to Italy: Early look at the potential United States 2023 Ryder Cup team

With just 100 days until the Ryder Cup, here’s an updated look at who may be on Team USA.

Mark your calendars, golf fans. The Ryder Cup is just 100 days away.

That’s right, in just about three months the United States will look to not just defend its Cup title against the Europeans, but also win for the first time on foreign soil in 30 years.

Twelve of the best players from the U.S. will take on Europe’s 12 best at Marco Simone Golf and Country Club in Rome, Italy, for the 2023 Ryder Cup, Sept. 29–Oct. 1, and the teams are starting to take shape.

American players began earning points at the beginning of 2022, and at the conclusion of the PGA Tour’s BMW Championship on Aug. 20, 2023, the top six players on the points list will qualify for the U.S. team. Captain Zach Johnson will then announce his six captain’s picks following the 2023 Tour Championship, Aug. 24-27.

While it’s difficult for LIV Golf players to earn automatic qualification (though one is currently ranked No. 3 in points), American players who left the PGA Tour for the Saudi-backed circuit are still eligible for the team via a grace period for their PGA of America membership that runs until June 2024. But will any be picked?

Here’s an updated look at what the U.S. team may look like 100 days out from Italy.

Sam Burns makes second hole-in-one on No. 15 at 2023 U.S. Open

The ace by Burns is the 50th in U.S. Open history.

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LOS ANGELES — Good things are coming in pairs at the 2023 U.S. Open.

Thursday’s first round at Los Angeles Country Club’s North Course produced two 62s, first by Rickie Fowler and followed soon thereafter by Xander Schauffele.

Deuces were also wild on No. 15, with two holes-in-one on the par-3 hole.

A few hours after Matthieu Pavon aced the par-3 hole, Sam Burns followed suit on the hole playing 124 yards.

Playing alongside Dustin Johnson and Keith Mitchell, Burns had just birdied the 14th hole, his fifth hole of the day, as he started on the back nine. He then stepped up to and made the one of the more memorable shots of his life.

The ace by Burns is the 50th in U.S. Open history.