Cink Continues Amazing Late Career Run After Caddie Change, Distance Gain
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It wasn’t exciting and the pace was so slow the leaders couldn’t finish before CBS’s scheduled sign-off times. And Stewart Cink won’t care.
From Dylan Dethier’s story at Golf.com on the Cink’s backstory and the amazing game turnaround since sacking looper Kip Henley:
In Reagan’s first start of the year, Stewart shocked the golf world. The 47-year-old shot 65-65 on the weekend in Napa to edge out his Safeway Open competition; for the first time in 11 years, he was in the winner’s circle.
“I can’t really overstate how important Reagan’s been as a caddie, too,” Cink said after the win. “He understands golf to the very, very highest level. It was really a great experience.”
Father and son got to enjoy the walk up 18:
And it wasn’t like Cink lucked into this one, as Doug Ferguson noted in sharing the scoring records Cink broke:
Cink put on show for the ages — shattering the lowest 36-hole score at Harbour Town of 13-under 129 shared by Jack Nicklaus and Phil Mickelson. Cink also broke the 54-hole scoring mark of 16-under 197 that Justin Leonard had in his 2002 win.
Cink averaged 306 off the tee, the same as his 2021 season average and continues his amazing distance carry surge detailed by Cameron Morfit in January after committing to a massive weightlifting and cardio prog…wait, oh, it was thanks to Trackman. Sorry.
Anyway, the win came in Cink’s 600th career start, a feat commemorated earlier in the week:
