BRAD Burns, the busiest and best player on Australia’s Legends Tour, has given his rivals a rare glimpse of hope – he’s thinking about giving it away. Not straight away, but perhaps in a year or two.
Burns, who wrapped up his sixth Legends Tour Order of Merit in mid-December, said the combined effects of sciatica, gout and planta fasciitis were finally taking a toll on his 59-year-old body.
Not that anyone would know it!
Burns played 82 events this year in Australia and New Zealand – more than anybody on the Legends Tour – and scored more than 85,000 points on the Order of Merit.
He won 13 titles, claimed another 34 top 10 finishes and won more than $95,000 in prizemoney. He failed to pick up a cheque only eight times.
Burns’ performances were more than enough to deny Andre Stolz his fifth straight Legends Tour OOM title.
So dominant have the two Sunshine Coast veterans been that, between them, they have won the tour championship every year for the past nine years. And since his last OOM win in 2020, Burns has twice been runner-up to Stolz.
Burns’ OOM victory gains him a start in this year’s Senior PGA Championship at The Concession Golf Club in Florida in mid-April, and another chance of gaining some status on the US Tour Champions circuit.
Brad Burns won a sixth Legends Tour Order of Merit title in 2025.
But he understands that time is running out and concedes it’s more difficult than ever for players like him to make the tour, given the PGA Tour Champions’ decision last year to abandon Q School qualifying.
He’s happy to play out his career on the Legends Tour, which he describes as a ‘good product’ – competitive, well organised and contested by outstanding players, many of whom have become close friends over the years.
When he eventually leaves the tour, he said he may buy a business, and hinted golf may not be a factor in retirement.
“I don’t really enjoy playing golf socially,” he said, then admitted that after a gruelling final week of Legends Tour golf on the Sunshine Coast, he’d spent his first free day playing 18 holes with three mates at Twin Waters.
The 2025 Legends Tour ended with the 36-hole Tour Championship at Beerwah, where David Bransdon shot rounds of 68 and 68 to beat Scott Hend, Scott Barr and John Wade by a stroke.
Burns ended his campaign with a tie for fifth.
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