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Stewart Cink

Personal Information
Birth	May 21 1973 (1973-05-21) (age 35) Huntsville, Alabama, U.S.
Height	6 ft 4 in (1.93 m)
Weight	205 lb (93 kg)
Nationality	United States
Residence	Duluth, Georgia, U.S.
College	Georgia Tech
Career
Turned Pro	1995
Current tour	PGA Tour (joined 1995)
Professional wins	11 (PGA Tour: 4, Nationwide Tour: 3, Other: 4)
Best Results in Major Championships
Masters	10th: 2006
U.S. Open	3rd: 2001
British Open	T6: 2007
PGA Championship	T3: 1999

Stewart Ernest Cink (born May 21, 1973) is an American professional golfer. He spent 27 weeks in the top 10 of the Official World Golf Rankings in 2004-05.69 Players Who Have Reached The Top-10 In World Ranking

Cink was born in Huntsville, Alabama and grew up in Florence. He attended Georgia Tech in Atlanta, where he played golf for the Yellow Jackets, and turned professional in 1995. After winning the Mexican Open and three events on the Nike Tour (now the Nationwide 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. 2004 was his career year to date, 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 and was the most prestigious win of his career. He also has two sons, Connor and Reagan, and a wife, Lisa.

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.

Professional wins (11)

PGA Tour wins (4)

No.	Date	Tournament	Winning Score	Margin of Victory	Runner(s) up
1.	Jul. 27, 1997	Canon Greater Hartford Open	-13 (69-67-65-66=267)	1 stroke	Tom Byrum, Brandel Chamblee, Jeff Maggert
2.	Apr. 16, 2000	MCI Classic	-14 (71-68-66-65=270)	2 strokes	Tom Lehman
3.	Apr. 18, 2004	MCI Heritage	-10 (72-69-69-64=274)	Playoff	Ted Purdy
4.	Aug. 22, 2004	WGC-NEC Invitational	-11 (63-68-68-70=269)	4 strokes	Tiger Woods, Rory Sabbatini

PGA Tour playoff record (1-2)

No.	Year	Tournament	Opponent(s)	Result
1.	1998	Canon Greater Hartford Open	Olin Browne, Larry Mize	Lost to Olin Browne who made birdie on first extra hole (Larry Mize was also in playoff)
2.	2004	MCI Heritage	Ted Purdy	Won with birdie on fifth hole
3.	2006	WGC-NEC Invitational	Tiger Woods	Lost to birdie on fourth hole

Nationwide Tour wins (3)

• 1996 NIKE Ozarks Open, NIKE Colorado Classic, NIKE Tour Championship

Other wins (4)

• 1996 Mexican Open
• 1999 Mexican Open
• 2006 Wendy\'s 3-Tour Challenge (with Zach Johnson and Scott Verplank, unofficial event)
• 2007 CVS Caremark Charity Classic (with J. J. Henry)

Results in major championships

DNP = Did not play
CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied
Green background for wins. Yellow background for top-10

Results in World Golf Championship events

¹Cancelled due to 9/11
DNP = Did not play
QF, R16, R32, R64 = Round in which player lost in match play
"T" = tied
NT = No Tournament
Green background for wins. Yellow background for top-10.

United States national team appearances

• Presidents Cup: 2000 (winners), 2005 (winners), 2007 (winners)
• Ryder Cup: 2002, 2004, 2006
• WGC-World Cup: 2005

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to:

Stewart Cink

• Profile on the PGA Tour\'s official site
• Results in ranking events for the last two years from the World Golf Ranking site

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