Stewart Cink has dedicated to play full-time on the PGA Tour Champions circuit in 2025.
Cink, 51, who joined the PGA Tour in 1997, has eight profession wins in 689 occasions. He is earned nearly $44 million.
Winner of The Open Championship in 2009, Cink’s final PGA Tour victory got here in 2021 on the RBC Heritage.
“I really like enjoying the PGA Tour, however I have been doing it a very long time, and I am such an outlier on the market age-wise,” Cink instructed Golfweek. “It is simply not as a lot enjoyable. If day by day was Thursday by way of Sunday, if it was simply the competitors, I might nonetheless be doing it. However apply rounds, the vary, locker room, eating, in some unspecified time in the future, you bought to be round your of us, and my of us are on the Champions Tour. So I instructed my spouse, ‘I believe it is time to change over.'”
He completed No. 173 within the FedEx Cup standings in 2024, and he mentioned his spouse, Lisa, agreed along with his choice.
“Each time we talked concerning the Champions Tour, she had all the time mentioned, ‘You are still PGA Tour materials,’ however this time she’s like, ‘I used to be considering the identical factor.’ She mentioned, ‘I’m so on board with you in that.’ So, [it] feels proper,” Cink instructed Golfweek.
In 2024, Cink performed in 11 Champions occasions and completed within the Prime 10 9 instances, together with a win at The Ally Problem at Grand Blanc, Mich., in August.
“I’ve this window, and I do not wish to look again and say I did not reap the benefits of it,” he mentioned. “I’ve acquired an opportunity to perhaps do one thing actually good over there. So, I am transferring on. I am prepared. I really feel nice about it and I am excited.”
