{"id":8329,"date":"2026-01-24T14:12:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T07:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/?p=8329"},"modified":"2026-01-24T14:12:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T07:12:16","slug":"cink-and-jacobsen-take-over-the-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/cink-and-jacobsen-take-over-the-lead\/","title":{"rendered":"Cink and Jacobsen take over the lead"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Stewart Cink shot 9-under 63 at Hualalai Golf Course move into a share of the lead at the Mitsubishi Electric Championship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The PGA Champions Player of Year is tied at 15 under with 51-year-old Freddie Jacobson of Sweden entering the final day of competition on the west coast of Hawaii Island. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cink, who carded a first-round 66, carded 10 birdies with the only stutter with a bogey at the par-4 No. 16.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jacobson birdied his first four holes, then posted an eagle on No. 10 to follow up with his first-round 65.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cink was one of six golfers in the 42-player field to shoot 8 under or better on the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Canada&#8217;s Stephen Ames, who led after the first round, slipped into a tie for third at 14 under with Argentina&#8217;s Angel Cabrera.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ames finished round two on 66 with seven birdies, one bogey and 10 pars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cabrera carded the lowest round of the day with a 10-under 62, landing an eagle, on the par-5 No. 4, and 10 birdies &#8212; Nos. 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 10, 12, 14, 15 and 16. Cabrera lost strokes with bogeys at the par-4 No. 11 and the par-3 No. 17.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fred Couples is alone in fifth at 13 under after his 66. He made five consecutive birdies on Nos. 4-8 for a 31 on the front nine, birdied No. 10 and gave back a shot with a bogey at No. 12 before recording another birdie at No. 14.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Three time winner here. 68-year-old Bernhard Langer is tied 11th after shooting a 64.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>LEADERBOARD<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td>&nbsp;<\/td><td><strong>Player<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>To Par<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Scores<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>T1<\/td><td>Stewart Cink<\/td><td>-15<\/td><td>66-63 \u2013 129<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>&nbsp;<\/td><td>Freddie Jacobson<\/td><td>-15<\/td><td>65-64 \u2013 129<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>T3<\/td><td>\u00c1ngel Cabrera<\/td><td>-14<\/td><td>68-62 \u2013 130<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>&nbsp;<\/td><td>Stephen Ames<\/td><td>-14<\/td><td>64-66 \u2013 130<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>5<\/td><td>Fred Couples<\/td><td>-13<\/td><td>65-66 \u2013 131<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stewart Cink shot 9-under 63 at Hualalai Golf Course move into a share of the lead at the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8330,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[264],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized-en"],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Stewart-Cink1.jpg",2021,1125,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Stewart-Cink1-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Stewart-Cink1-300x167.jpg",300,167,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Stewart-Cink1-768x428.jpg",640,357,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Stewart-Cink1-1024x570.jpg",640,356,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Stewart-Cink1-1536x855.jpg",1536,855,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Stewart-Cink1.jpg",2021,1125,false],"morenews-large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Stewart-Cink1-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"morenews-medium":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Stewart-Cink1-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"info":["admin"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/category\/uncategorized-en\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Uncategorized<\/a>","tag_info":"Uncategorized","comment_count":"0","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Stewart-Cink1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8329"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8332,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8329\/revisions\/8332"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}