BRADENTON, Fla.–Stewart Cink got here off the sector with an unbelievable stretch across the flip Sunday, ending six pictures behind on the Senior PGA Championship with a 9-under 63, his first senior main victory and third PGA Tour Champions win of the yr.
Cink entered the ultimate spherical at Concession Golf Membership with a one-stroke lead, however then erased all of the drama with an important run.
He began with an eagle on the par-5 seventh gap. He closed out the entrance 9 with back-to-back birdies and took management, sinking a 35-foot birdie putt from the slope and rolling in with excellent velocity to interrupt on the par-3 eleventh for birdie.
He was 5 underneath par after these 5 holes, and it was only a matter of everybody else taking part in for second place. Sink added an up-and-down birdie on the par-5 thirteenth gap and an 18-foot birdie on the 14th gap.
Ben Crane shot a 68 to take sole second place in his Senior PGA Championship debut.
South Africa’s Keith Horne, who began the ultimate spherical with a one-shot lead, was unable to maintain up with Sinks and fell behind with a double bogey on the par-4 twelfth gap.
Cink, who received the 2009 British Open in a playoff with Tom Watson at Turnberry, has but to have a spherical over par in 16 rounds on the PGA Tour Champions. Along with his three wins this season, he additionally had a runner-up end, and his worst consequence was a tie for sixth place.
He completed at 19-under 269, one shot shy of the 20-under par document set by Sam Snead within the 1973 Senior PGA Championship at PGA Nationwide.
Scott Hend and Steve Allan (each Australia) every completed with a 71 to tie for third place.
