PHOENIX — Stewart Cink shot a bogey-free 7-under 64 to take a one-shot lead as the primary spherical of the Charles Schwab Championship, the season finale on the PGA Tour Champions, concluded on Thursday.
Cink completed the season with back-to-back birdies at Phoenix Nation Membership, ending third behind Steven Alker and Miguel Ángel Jimenez within the Charles Schwab Cup factors race.
Jerry Kelly overcame a bogey on the par-4 tenth gap to attain a 65 with eight birdies.
Alker was tied with a 66, two strokes behind Tommy Gainey, Jason Caron and Steve Contemporary. Jimenez shot a 69 to tie for fifteenth place.
Alker gained the 2023 Schwab Cup and is the defending Schwab Championship winner, profitable final 12 months’s match title as Bernhard Langer gained the season championship. The 54-year-old Kiwi gained twice on this 12 months’s PGA Tour Champions and leads the factors race heading into the ultimate race of the season, with Ernie Els and Thomas Bjorn additionally in rivalry for the title.
Bjorn shot a 68 to tie for eighth place, and Els shot a 1-under 70 to tie for nineteenth place.
Cink birdied the par-5 first gap and completed with a 3-under 33. On the again 9, he birdied two of the primary three holes and confirmed pleasure from then on.
Alker additionally made a birdie on the primary gap to hit a 33 on the entrance and added two extra on the again to fall behind Cink within the Schwab Cup race.
