Stewart Cink: “We’ve had some conversation people our age shouldn’t be having"

Adam Schupak talks to Stewart Cink, returning to the tour after a brief hiatus while wife Lisa battles breast cancer, and his optimism is encouraging.

Schupak writes:

“I’ve played quite a bit,” Cink said. “I thought golf would give me a chance to get away from reality for a little while, but that’s not the case at all. When I go to the golf course, she’s all I think about.”

Circumstances haven’t necessarily improved, but the third week of Lisa’s treatment is the most predictable, and so Cink, in an attempt to keep “pieces of normal,” is returning to the Tour at the Dean and DeLuca Invitational, which begins today at Colonial Country Club. It is his first tournament since the RBC Heritage in mid-April. He missed the past five Tour events.

“Earlier this month, I didn’t feel like I’d ever want to play again,” Cink said. “Now we have a handle on what it is, and we know what we’re dealing with and what to expect.”