{"id":617983,"date":"2026-04-19T22:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T22:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/617983\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T22:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T22:54:09","slug":"stewart-cink-cards-63-wins-senior-pga-championship-by-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/617983\/","title":{"rendered":"Stewart Cink cards 63, wins Senior PGA Championship by 6"},"content":{"rendered":"

BRADENTON, Fla. — Stewart Cink<\/a> pulled away from the field with an astonishing stretch around the turn Sunday to close with a 9-under 63 for a six-shot victory in the Senior PGA Championship, his first senior major and third win of the year on the PGA Tour Champions.<\/p>\n

Cink was one shot behind going into the final round at Concession Golf Club, and then he removed all drama with a remarkable run.<\/p>\n

It started with an eagle on the par-5 seventh. He closed out the front nine with back-to-back birdies to seize control, and then he poured it on with a 35-foot birdie putt up the slope and with perfect speed that took the break and dropped for birdie on the par-3 11th.<\/p>\n

He was 5-under par over that five-hole stretch, and then it was a matter of everyone else playing for second. Cink added an up-and-down birdie on the par-5 13th, and he rolled in an 18-foot birdie on the 14th hole.<\/p>\n

Ben Crane<\/a> closed with a 68 to finish alone in second in his Senior PGA Championship debut.<\/p>\n

Keith Horne<\/a> of South Africa, who began the final round with a one-shot lead, couldn’t keep up with Cink’s and fell back with a double bogey on the par-4 12th hole.<\/p>\n

Cink, who won the 2009 British Open in a playoff over Tom Watson<\/a> at Turnberry, has yet to have a round over par in his 16 rounds on the PGA Tour Champions. Along with his three victories this season, he has a runner-up finish and his worst result was a tie for sixth.<\/p>\n

He finished 19-under 269, missing by one shot the record to par of 20 under by Sam Snead<\/a> in the 1973 Senior PGA Championship at PGA National.<\/p>\n

Scott Hend<\/a> and Steve Allan<\/a>, both of Australia, each closed with a 71 and tied for third.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BRADENTON, Fla. — Stewart Cink pulled away from the field with an astonishing stretch around the turn Sunday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":617984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-617983","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\/617983","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=617983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/617984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}