Longtime combatants Ernie Els and Stewart Cink couldn't decide things in 54 holes so the duo went to a playoff a the 2025 Ally Challenge.
Longtime combatants Ernie Els and Stewart Cink couldn't decide things in 54 holes, so the duo went to a playoff at the 2025 Ally Challenge.
Els had a clean card with three birdies for a final-round 69 while Cink had three bogeys but seven birdies, four of them over a five-hole stretch late in the day.
But both golfers parred the par-4 18th, so off to bonus golf they went at Warwick Hills Golf & Country Club in Grand Blanc, Michigan.
On the first playoff hole, par was all Cink needed to make quick work and eliminate Els.
Cink came into the Ally with two solo seconds and a solo third in his last four starts but finally finished on the right side of a tight battle to earn his second PGA Tour Champions win in 2025 and the third of his career.
He's also a repeat winner of the Ally, the first to win the event a second time in its eight-year history.
He's the fifth golfer with more than one win this season, alongside Miguel Angel Jimenez (4), Angel Cabrera (3), Steve Allan (3) and Padraig Harrington (2).
This article originally appeared on Golfweek: Stewart Cink beats Ernie Els in a playoff at 2025 Ally Challenge
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