{"id":289339,"date":"2025-11-17T00:51:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T00:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/289339\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T00:51:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T00:51:10","slug":"stewart-cink-wins-tour-champions-season-ending-event-points-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/289339\/","title":{"rendered":"Stewart Cink wins Tour Champions&#8217; season-ending event, points title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHOENIX &#8212; <a data-player-guid=\"96b14f80-5c0a-8750-ad5e-907f158e09be\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/golf\/player\/_\/id\/78\/stewart-cink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stewart Cink<\/a> won the PGA Tour Champions&#8217; season-ending Charles Schwab Cup Championship on Sunday at Phoenix Country Club to take the Charles Schwab Cup season points title.<\/p>\n<p>Cink closed with a 4-under 67 to finish at 20-under 264, two strokes ahead of <a data-player-guid=\"2bb2fd07-6dc3-19cf-57fc-0112955385b9\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/golf\/player\/_\/id\/660\/steven-alker\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Steven Alker<\/a>, the third-round leader who also ended up second in the season standings. Alker bogeyed the par-5 18th in a 70.<\/p>\n<p>The 52-year-old Cink won for the third time this season and fourth in 36 career starts on the 50-and-older tour. He won eight times on the PGA Tour, highlighted by a playoff victory over Tom Watson in the 2009 British Open.<\/p>\n<p><a data-player-guid=\"3c6418f9-6887-a748-1ce9-7c8599ad86d5\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/golf\/player\/_\/id\/540\/freddie-jacobson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Freddie Jacobson<\/a> (66), <a data-player-guid=\"7797dfec-92ca-d4c4-5451-14bbc712e495\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/golf\/player\/_\/id\/243\/jerry-kelly\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jerry Kelly<\/a> (67) and <a data-player-guid=\"1c9de8a9-520d-b953-cb50-4265005bfaa6\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/golf\/player\/_\/id\/1798\/tommy-gainey\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tommy Gainey<\/a> (68) tied for third at 15 under.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX &#8212; Stewart Cink won the PGA Tour Champions&#8217; season-ending Charles Schwab Cup Championship on Sunday at Phoenix&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3296,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-289339","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}