Brad Burns

Brad Burns is an Australian professional golfer from Queensland who has built a long career across the Australian professional, club-professional and pro-am circuits. After turning professional as a teenager, he later became one of the leading players on the Australian PGA Legends Tour. Burns won the 2025 Legends Tour Order of Merit and earned an exemption into the 2026 Senior PGA Championship. Provider data lists his date of birth as 5 December 1966; the 2026 Senior PGA Championship players gu…

Brad Burns is a Queensland-born Australian professional golfer associated with the Sunshine Coast and Bundaberg regions. The 2026 Senior PGA Championship players guide identifies his birthplace as Gladstone, Queensland, lists him as a teaching professional at House of Golf Bundaberg and states that he turned professional in 1983. His career has included early appearances on the Australian Tour, extensive professional-am golf in Australia, club-professional appointments in Queensland, Malaysia and Victoria, and a later transition into senior golf. Burns was a club professional at Maryborough in Queensland, Miri Golf Club in Malaysia and Murray Downs Golf Club in Swan Hill, Victoria. While at Murray Downs, he won three Australian club professional championships consecutively. Since becoming eligible for senior golf in 2016, Burns has been a leading figure on the Australian PGA Legends Tour. Publicly reported results credit him with more than 60 Legends Tour victories by September 2025, while the 2026 Senior PGA Championship guide records 42 wins through the end of 2024 and six Order of Merit titles after the 2025 season. His playing role is that of a professional tournament golfer and teaching professional. His most recent major international appearance was the 2026 Senior PGA Championship in the United States, where he entered through the exemption awarded to the top finisher on the 2025 PGA of Australia Legends Tour Order of Merit.