Stewart Cink
| Stewart Cink | |
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| — Golfer — | |
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| Personal information | |
| Full name | Stewart Ernest Cink |
| Born |
May 21, 1973 Huntsville, Alabama |
| Height | 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) |
| Weight | 205 lb (93 kg; 14.6 st) |
| Nationality |
 United States
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| Residence | Duluth, Georgia |
| Career | |
| College | Georgia Tech |
| Turned professional | 1995 |
| Current tour(s) | PGA Tour (joined 1997) |
| Professional wins | 14 |
| Number of wins by tour | |
| PGA Tour | 6 |
| Web.com Tour | 3 |
| Other | 5 |
| Best results in major championships (wins: 1) |
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| Masters Tournament | T3: 2008 |
| U.S. Open | 3rd: 2001 |
| The Open Championship | Won: 2009 |
| PGA Championship | T3: 1999 |
| Achievements and awards | |
| Nike Tour leading money winner |
1996 |
| Nike Tour Player of the Year |
1996 |
| PGA Tour Rookie of the Year |
1997 |
Stewart Ernest Cink (born May 21, 1973) is an American professional golfer who won the 2009 Open Championship. He spent over 40 weeks in the top 10 of the Official World Golf Ranking from 2004 to 2009.
Cink was born in Huntsville, Alabama, and grew up in nearby Florence, where he attended Bradshaw High School. After completing high school in 1991, he graduated from Georgia Tech in Atlanta in 1995 with a degree in Management, where he played golf for the Yellow Jackets; he turned professional in 1995.
After winning the Mexican Open and three events on the Nike Tour (now the Web.com Tour) in 1996, Cink joined the PGA Tour in 1997 and won the Canon Greater Hartford Open in his rookie season. Cink performed consistently on the Tour over the next few years, picking up another win at the 2000 MCI Classic. Until his victory in the Open Championship in 2009, 2004 was his most successful season, with a fifth-place finish on the money list and wins at the MCI Heritage and at the WGC-NEC Invitational, which is one of the World Golf Championships events.
On February 24, 2008, Cink was the runner-up in the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship played in Marana, Arizona, falling 8 & 7 in the 36-hole final to top-ranked Tiger Woods. In June 2008, he reached his highest ever ranking, sixth, in the Official World Golf Rankings with his victory at the Travelers Championship in suburban Hartford.
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