Stewart Cink and son have shined as team, but the real world is calling
JACKSON, Miss .– Stewart Cink told a reporter before the final round of the Sanderson Farms Championship that he was going to have “shoot the fur off the course” on Sunday, or else that would be the end of his run with son, Reagan, by his side as his caddie. Then Cink went out and made eight birdies en route to shooting 7-under 65.
“Left a little fur on the course,” Cink said. “It was a Top 5 thing. I don't want Reagan to – he's a great caddie, he's doing a great job, but I don't think I want him to become a caddie. He's just a little bit too good at doing this to where I think if he keeps going, he might find a home out here.
Father and son teamed up two weeks ago at the Safe way Open in Na pa, California, for Cink's first victory in more than 11 years, which earned Reagan another start on the bag this week. Somewhere, veteran caddie Kip Henley, who has been Cink's regular sidekick since the Sanderson Farms Championship last year, was sweating it out as Cink poured in four birdies and one bogey on his first nine holes on Sunday and then tacked on four more birdies on the inward nine. As Cink tapped in for 65, he looked at the scoreboard and he was currently in a share of fifth. (He eventually finished T-12 at 13-under 275.)
“If you had done it today, Top 5, I would have been super excited about getting out for next week,” Reagan said.
“Same here,” Stewart said.
“I've got a life to go get home and live,” Reagan said.
That includes a fiancé back in Atlanta and a job at Delta Airlines. Reagan graduated with a degree in industrial engineering from Georgia Tech and is ready to get back to his role on the technology product management team. If it sounds as challenging as reading putts at t he Country Club of Jackson, it probably is. Cink may have finished in the top 5 this week had his putter not gone cold on the weekend, especially in the third round when he lost nearly three strokes to the field with his short stick.