{"id":436047,"date":"2026-01-25T06:51:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T06:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/436047\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T06:51:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T06:51:22","slug":"stewart-cink-wins-champions-event-in-hawaii-by-3-shots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/436047\/","title":{"rendered":"Stewart Cink wins Champions event in Hawaii by 3 shots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KA&#8217;UPULEHU-KONA, Hawaii &#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-opening Mitsubishi Electric Championship on Saturday, closing with an 8-under 63 for a three-stroke victory.<\/p>\n<p>The 52-year-old Cink finished at 23-under 193 at Hualalai. He won his second straight event after closing last season with a victory in Phoenix in the Charles Schwab Cup Championship. He has five senior titles.<\/p>\n<p><a data-player-guid=\"1a7fd472-fc67-a22e-db0e-d8aa581339cd\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/golf\/player\/_\/id\/65\/angel-cabrera\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00c1ngel Cabrera<\/a> was second after a 66. <a data-player-guid=\"3f0c0b9b-17ff-d7de-32a2-cb9d8703cc4e\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/golf\/player\/_\/id\/167\/retief-goosen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Retief Goosen<\/a> shot a 64 to finish third at 18 under, and <a data-player-guid=\"414fd563-c5cf-ab59-d2bc-85ba36ae3143\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/golf\/player\/_\/id\/123\/ernie-els\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ernie Els<\/a> (67), Thomas Bjorn (66) and <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> (70) were 17 under. Sixty-six-year-old <a data-player-guid=\"ca78a97c-a3a2-08b8-343b-8652afaf57f4\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/golf\/player\/_\/id\/91\/fred-couples\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fred Couples<\/a> was 15 under after a 70.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KA&#8217;UPULEHU-KONA, Hawaii &#8212; Stewart Cink won the PGA Tour Champions&#8217; season-opening Mitsubishi Electric Championship on Saturday, closing with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":436048,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-436047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436047","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=436047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}