{"id":650985,"date":"2026-05-05T11:04:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T11:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/650985\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T11:04:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T11:04:25","slug":"stewart-cink-holds-off-scott-hend-to-win-second-straight-major-continues-pga-tour-champions-domination-australian-golf-digest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/650985\/","title":{"rendered":"Stewart Cink holds off Scott Hend to win second straight major, continues PGA Tour Champions domination \u2013 Australian Golf Digest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Photo: Jonathan Bachman]<\/p>\n<p>Stewart Cink hasn\u2019t finished worse than sixth in his past eight starts on the PGA Tour Champions, dating back to last season. Five of those starts have been wins. Two of those victories are majors.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.australiangolfdigest.com.au\/one-of-best-rounds-stewart-cink-has-ever-played-propels-him-to-first-senior-major\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018One of the best rounds\u2019 Stewart Cink has ever played propels him to his first senior major<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 52-year-old added the second senior major of the year, and second in the past three weeks, today at the Regions Tradition via a final-round 69. He shot 18-under 270 at Greystone Golf &amp; Country Club in Birmingham, Alabama, to top <a href=\"https:\/\/www.australiangolfdigest.com.au\/my-shot-scott-hend\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Australia\u2019s Scott Hend<\/a> by three shots after the Queenslander closed with a 65. Colin Montgomerie was third, two shots behind Hend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was pretty resilient and I trusted what I had and our game plan was good,\u201d said Cink, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.australiangolfdigest.com.au\/one-of-best-rounds-stewart-cink-has-ever-played-propels-him-to-first-senior-major\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">won the Senior PGA Championship<\/a> two weeks ago in Florida. \u201cYou know, I wasn\u2019t perfect by any stretch, but I played good golf and under the circumstances I kind of did what I needed to do to kind of keep everybody from being too close. But still, it never feels easy. I wish it felt easier, it never does.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A champion in his home state \ud83e\udd33 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OOQQv3bhcs\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/OOQQv3bhcs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 PGA TOUR Champions (@ChampionsTour) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChampionsTour\/status\/2051070007451263104?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">May 3, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It may not have felt easy, but it looked easy.<\/p>\n<p>When Cink birdied the second and fifth holes on the final day, he appeared in complete control. Birdies at the 11th and 12th made it all a forgone conclusion.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s now the second time in two years that the same player won both the Senior PGA and the Tradition, after Angel Cabrera who won both last year in back-to-back weeks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis weekend was a little scrappy,\u201d Cink said. \u201cI\u2019m really proud I was able to stay out front.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Just as he has been all year.<\/p>\n<p>    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[Photo: Jonathan Bachman] Stewart Cink hasn\u2019t finished worse than sixth in his past eight starts on the PGA&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":650986,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[4225,64,63,314852,755,138747,314853,44,43705,311059,314854,85,314855],"class_list":["post-650985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-article","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-colin-montgomerie","tag-golf","tag-golf-digest","tag-greystone-golf-country-club","tag-news","tag-pga-tour-champions","tag-regions-tradition","tag-scott-hend","tag-sports","tag-stewart-cink"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650985","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=650985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/650986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}