The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Cink, 47, picks up first title since 2009
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Stewart Cink won the season-opening Safeway Open at 47 years old Sunday in Napa, Calif., for his seventh PGA Tour victory and first since the 2009 British Open.
Cink, a former Georgia Tech player, closed with a 7-under 65 — rebounding from a bogey on the 17th with a birdie on the 18th — for a two-stroke victory over Harry Higgs.
Cink is the oldest PGA Tour winner since Phil Mickelson at 48 at Pebble Beach in February 2019. Cink’s last victory came at the expense of then-59-year-old Tom Watson at Turnberry, with Cink winning a four-hole playoff.
Cink did it the old fashioned way Sunday, with a short game that put him in great shape on the greens. He one-putted 10 times, scrambled for pars after
1. Grayson
(2-0)
driving into the sand twice and had eight birdies to finish at 21-under 267.
Higgs shot a 68. Doc Redman shot 62 — matching the low round of the event — to tie with Brian Stuard (70), Chez Reavie (66) and Kevin Streelman (67) at 18 under.
Stuard, Cameron Percy, and James Hahn entered the day tied for the lead.
Percy (74) was done when he went double bogey, double bogey, bogey over a threehole stretch on the front nine. Hahn (72) bogeyed three of the first six holes and couldn’t recover. Stuard was 1 over through eight and chased the leaders the rest of the afternoon.
LPGA: Mirim Lee chipped in three times, the last one for eagle on the final hole that got her into a three-way playoff at the ANA Inspiration that she won on the first extra hole with a birdie in Rancho
Mirage, Calif., Sunday.
It was another wild finish in the LPGA major that moved from the first weekend of April to the 100-degree heat of September, and no one was more surprised than the 29-year-old Lee. She was never in the lead until she holed a 5-foot birdie on the 18th to beat Nelly Korda and Brooke Henderson.
Champions: Miguel Angel Jimenez completed a wire-towire victory in Sioux Falls, S.D., at the Sanford International. Jimenez closed with a 5-under 65 at Minehaha Country Club to beat Steve Flesch by a stroke.
Europe: South African George Coetzee shot a 5-under 66 to win the Portugal Masters by two strokes in Vilamoura.
Etc.: Rookie Scottie Scheffler tested positive for the coronavirus and withdrew from the U.S. Open.