British Open Playoff Winner Stewart Cink
Sunday, July 19, 2009
This isn't Hollywood, even if that is how we sometimes want it. Tom Watson winning the British Open at 59 would have been the story that was splashed on pages of a screenplay. He was the man that most had hoped would be holding the Claret Jug for the sixth time in his career. It would have been a great story, but it just wasn't meant to be.
Instead, Stewart Cink, one of the nicest guys on tour, claimed his first major championship at Turnberry, defeating Watson in a four-hole playoff with clutch putting and solid iron play that was punctuated with a wedge on the last hole he stuffed to three feet for a birdie and the victory.
Cink is one of those type of players you'd expect might break through in a major. A five time winner on the PGA Tour, the 36-year-old Cink has had his chances before. At the U.S. Open in 2001, Cink battled Retief Goosen all day, but missed a tap-in putt on the 18th green to miss out in the 18-hole playoff Goosen eventually won over Mark Brooks. Cink finished tied for third at the Masters in '08 and t-6 at this very championship in '06.
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