Stewart Cink | Player Profile | The 150th Open

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• Age
• Turned Pro 1995
• Previous Opens

• CHAMPION GOLFER OF THE YEAR 2009

Stewart Cink United States

• Overview

• BIO

• Performances

Will always be remembered as the man who prevented 59-year-old Tom Watson becoming the oldest-ever winner of a major title at The Open at Turnberry in 2009.

Cink captures the Claret Jug 

Stewart Cink wins his first major defeating Tom Watson over the stunning links of Turnberry.

Cink captures the Claret Jug 

Will always be remembered as the man who prevented 59-year-old Tom Watson becoming the oldest-ever winner of a major title at The Open at Turnberry in 2009.

Stewart Cink, three behind with a round to go, birdied the final hole from 16 feet before Watson bogeyed it to fall into a tie. The former then dominated the four-hole play-off, winning it by six strokes, for the high point of a career which has brought five Ryder Cup caps, most recently in 2010, and four winning Presidents Cup appearances.

Rookie of the Year on the PGA Tour in 1997, Cink has recorded top-three finishes in all four majors.

He beat Tiger Woods by four in the 2004 WGC-NEC Invitational in Akron and was a runner-up to him both in the same event two years later and at the 2008 WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship.

Cink has spent more than 40 weeks in the world's top 10, reaching fifth spot just after he lifted the 2008 Travelers Championship.

At the age of 47 he achieved his first PGA Tour win for more than 11 years - since The Open, in fact - at the 2020 Safeway Open, then won again in the following year’s RBC Heritage.

Venue Finish R1 R2 R3 R4 Total Par Royal Portrush 2025 M/C 75 71 - - - M/C Royal Troon 2024 M/C 76 77 - - - M/C Royal Liverpool 2023 T23 68 73 71 72 284 E St Andrews 2022 M/C 78 71 - - - M/C Royal St George's 2021 M/C 66 77 - - - M/C Royal Portrush 2019 T20 74 68 71 70 283 -1 Carnoustie 2018 T24 72 70 71 70 283 -1 Royal Birkdale 2017 M/C 77 73 - - - M/C St Andrews 2015 T20 70 71 68 72 281 -7 Royal Liverpool 2014 T47 71 75 73 69 288 E Muirfield 2013 T26 72 75 76 69 292 8 Royal Lytham & St Annes 2012 M/C 72 73 - - - M/C Royal St George's 2011 T30 70 71 77 71 289 9 St Andrews 2010 T48 70 74 71 74 289 - Turnberry 2009 Champion Golfer 1 66 72 71 69 278 - Royal Birkdale 2008 M/C 75 75 - - - - Carnoustie 2007 6 69 73 68 70 280 - Royal Liverpool 2006 M/C 72 77 - - - - St Andrews 2005 M/C 76 73 - - - - Royal Troon 2004 14 72 71 71 69 283 - Royal St George's 2003 34 75 75 75 68 293 - Muirfield 2002 59 71 69 80 69 289 - Royal Lytham & St Annes 2001 30 71 72 72 70 285 - St Andrews 2000 41 69 73 76 69 287 - Carnoustie 1999 M/C 82 80 - - - - Royal Birkdale 1998 66 71 73 83 72 299 -

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