Stewart Cink, three years shot of 50, turned back the clock to win the RBC Heritage Presented at Harbour Town Golf Links, beating back players almost half his age to win his third tartan jacket. Cink, the 2008 Open winner in Britain, was. winning his second title of the season, after the Fortinet Championship in Napa, California.
Cink finished 19-under and four clear of the field for his third win at Harbour Town, and 21 years after his first one. Cink also won the RBC Heritage in 2000 and 2004.
Anirban Lahiri missed the halfway cut.
“It’s just an experience you just don’t get to have in your life that often,” Cink said of winning a golf tournament at his age, with his son, Reagan, caddying for him and his family, including wife Lisa, there to witness it.
Cink joined Davis Love III (5) and Hale Irwin (3) with three or more victories at the Hilton Head Island tournament.
Harold Varner III, 30, and Emiliano Grillo, 28, of Argentina, tied for second, at 15 under, while Maverick McNealy, 25, Corey Conners, 29, and Mike Fitzpatrick, 26, of the United Kingdom were six shots behind the leader.
Cink joined the tour in 1995, before McNealy was born, but he isn’t the oldest to win the tournament. That would be Irwin, who was 48 when he won in 1994.
It was a dream tournament for Cink. With Reagan, his 25-year-old son and caddie, at his side advising him on each shot, Cink, started at a blistering pace, shattering the previous RBC Heritage 36-hole and 54-hole records.
“He and I have always been on the same wavelength,” Cink said of Reagan.
Father and son shared a hug at the 18th hole before Cink and wife Lisa embraced.
“God has blessed us beyond words,” Lisa Cink said.
The RBC Heritage win was Cink’s eighth career PGA Tour victory and the second of the season.
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