BRADENTON, Fla. — Stewart Cink 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 closed with a 68 to finish alone in second in his Senior PGA Championship debut.<\/p>\n
Keith Horne of South Africa, who began the final round with a one-shot lead, couldn\u2019t keep up with Cink\u2019s 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 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 in the 1973 Senior PGA Championship at PGA National.<\/p>\n
Scott Hend and Steve Allan, 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":615341,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-615340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}