Burns has now won five times on the PGA Tour. He won three times last season, most recently at the Sanderson Farms Championship, and has a pair of top-10 finishes already this season. He finished alone in sixth last week at the Valspar Championship .
Young is still searching for his first career win after what has been a painful collection of runner-up finishes for the 25-year-old. Young finished in second five times last season, including at the British Open, and finished T3 at the PGA Championship.
Both Burns and Young needed extra holes in their semifinal matches to get past Scottie Scheffler and Rory McIlroy, which marked the first time that’s happened in tournament history.
“I just didn’t do enough over those last four holes to close him out and when you don’t do that and you’re up against a player of Cam’s caliber, that’s what’s going to happen,” McIlroy said.
McIlroy then beat Scheffler 2&1 in their consolation match to take third.
The WGC-Match Play is ending after this season. The tournament did not make the cut in the Tour’s revamped schedule in 2024, meaning Burns will be the final winner. The tournament has been the only regular match-play event on Tour over the past several decades. It is also the last standing World Golf Championships event left on the calendar, which is another thing that is likely going to dissolve.
