Stewart Cink took a three-shot victory at the season opening Mitsubishi Electric Championship at Hualalai in Ka\u2019upulehu-Kona, Hawaii .<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The PGA Tour Champions Player of the Year carded a bogey-free round of 8-under-par 64 to finish at 23-under 193 in the three-round event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He finished well ahead of Argentina\u2019s Angel Cabrera, who followed his 62 on Friday with a 6-under 66 on Saturday to finish alone in second at 20 under.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
South Africa\u2019s Retief Goosen (64) moved up eight spots to place third at 18 under.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The 52-year-old Cink wa sin his elements as he birdied Holes 1, 4, 6, 9, 10, 14, 15 and 16. He saved on the par-3 No. 8 kept his momentum after missing a birdie putt on No. 7.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cabrera recovered from a bogey on the par-4 first hole with birdies at Holes 3, 4 and 7 for 2-under 34 on the front nine. He eagled the par-5 No. 10. Back-to-back birdies on Holes 13-14 were followed by pars on the last four holes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Second-round co-leader Freddie Jacobson of Sweden shot 2-under 70 to finish tied for fourth at 17 under. First-round leader Stephen Ames of Canada shot 72 and tied for ninth at 14 under.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
World Golf Hall of Fame member Retief Goosen matched Cink for the low round of the day (64) to finish at 18-under. This is Goosen\u2019s fourth top-6 at the championship in six starts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Three players finished tied-fourth at 17-under – defending champion and World Golf Hall of Fame member Ernie Els, 36-hole co-leader and first timers Freddie Jacobson and Thomas Bj\u00f8rn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sixty-eight-year-old Bernhard Langer was tied-ninth after he carded 68. The World Golf Hall of Fame member is a three-time winner here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
FINAL LEADERBOARD<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Stewart Cink took a three-shot victory at the season opening Mitsubishi Electric Championship at Hualalai in Ka\u2019upulehu-Kona, Hawaii<\/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":[44],"tags":[58],"class_list":["post-8376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","tag-golf"],"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":"International<\/a>","tag_info":"International","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\/8376","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=8376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8377,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8376\/revisions\/8377"}],"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=8376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Player<\/strong><\/td> To Par<\/strong><\/td> Scores<\/strong><\/td> Money<\/strong><\/td> Charles Schwab Cup<\/strong><\/td><\/tr> 1<\/td> Stewart Cink<\/td> -23<\/td> 66-63-64 \u2013 193<\/td> $340,000<\/td> 1st<\/td><\/tr> 2<\/td> \u00c1ngel Cabrera<\/td> -20<\/td> 68-62-66 \u2013 196<\/td> $200,000<\/td> 2nd<\/td><\/tr> 3<\/td> Retief Goosen<\/td> -18<\/td> 68-66-64 \u2013 198<\/td> $140,000<\/td> 3rd<\/td><\/tr> T4<\/td> Ernie Els<\/td> -17<\/td> 66-66-67 \u2013 199<\/td> $98,667<\/td> T-4th<\/td><\/tr> <\/td> Thomas Bj\u00f8rn<\/td> -17<\/td> 68-65-66 \u2013 199<\/td> $98,667<\/td> T-4th<\/td><\/tr> <\/td> Freddie Jacobson<\/td> -17<\/td> 65-64-70 \u2013 199<\/td> $98,667<\/td> T-4th<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"