Huntsville native Stewart Cink wins PGA Tour Champions title
PHOENIX, ARIZ, – Another North Alabama athlete can lay claim to a championship. Stewart Cink, professional golfer since age 22, recently captured the season-ending Charles Schwab Cup Championship by two strokes in Phoenix, Ariz. after shooting rounds of 64, 68, 65, and 67, and with the third win of the 2025 season also won the PGA Tour Champions’ 2025 title. The former Senior PGA Tour now known as the Champions Tour is for golfers age 50 and older. Cink is 52.
Winning the Tour Championship in front of his wife, Lisa, and his parents, who were in attendance, Cink now has eight pro tour victories including the 2009 British Open when he defeated Golf Hall of Famer Tom Watson in the four-hole playoff. In all, he has 105 top 10 finishes and enjoyed his highest world ranking at No. 6 in June 2008. He has a career total winnings of $49-million.
“This is the icing on the cake and validation for the work my team put in this year,” said Cink, referencing his team that includes his coach and trainer. “To win this title in front of Lisa and my parents is really something special.”
Cink was born in Huntsville May 21, 1973, but his family moved to Florence and it’s there Cink honed his skills of playing golf from his parents, Rob and Anne Cink, who were both low handicap golfers in their own right. He was a winner in men’s tournaments as a teenager and was destined to be a world class golfer even while attending Bradshaw High School where he graduated in 1991. He earned a college scholarship to Georgia Tech where he was an All-American collegiate golfer and graduated with his degree in 1995 and soon joined the professional ranks of the sport he began to play as a young boy.
For Cink’s parents, to be there for the victory was a thrill for them and a long time coming. Anne Cink said after the tournament victory, “This is the first time we’ve seen him win a tournament as we’ve been watching him 32 years on tour and this was the first time we’ve seen him win a tournament. Stewart is a very kind person and that means a lot to me. I know it and it means a lot to me when people come up and acknowledge it and validate it.”
The 6-foot-4, 205-pound Cink has had a tremendous career in professional golf and has been a member of both the U.S. Ryder and Presidents Cup Teams.
Cink once said one of the highlights of his career came in 2017 when he was named the recipient of the Payne Stewart Award given to a member of the PGA Tour demonstrating true sportsmanship in and around golf. He has returned to his “home turf” of North Alabama hosting charity golf events as he remains close to his birthplace knowing his first thoughts of being a professional golfer came within feet of the Tennessee River. Those dreams as a young boy have come true, ten-fold, and his legacy continues to grow and now includes PGA Tour Champion.
