| Brad Burris |
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Birth Date: Dec. 9, 1951
Birthplace: High Point, N.C.
Age: 51 Ht.: 5’7" Wt.: 170
Home: High Point, N.C.
College: North Carolina
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| Player Notes: |
| A partner in a food packaging company, D. Thomas
and Associates, has worked there since 1987. . . this
will be his first Senior Open, did attempt to qualify last year and
tried to qualify for the US Open in ’99. . . in 2003,
shot a 71, two strokes above third-place finisher, to grab the second
of three spots at Butterfield Country Club in Oak Brook, Illinois. . . at
UNC, played golf from 1972-74, with no highlights to speak of save
that they were beaten by Wake Forest every year he played; as a competitor
in USGA events, played in the 1999 U.S. Mid-Amateur, did not make
the match play, and in the 1989 Mid-Am at Crooked Stick, where he
did make match play but lost in the third round; has also played in
two Amateurs, failed to make match play both times; only win to speak
of won the Gasparilla Invitational, national invitational, won in
1993. . . wife, Becky, married 32 years, will be present
at Inverness, watching him play for first time since his appearance
in the Mid-Am at Crooked Stick in ’89. . . also has
4 children (Jack, 26, engaged to be married this fall; Phil, 24, will
caddie for him; daughter, Betsy, 22, senior at UNC; Kent, 20, will
attend Ole Miss) |
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