Top 100 TOUR Players to Watch in 2010: No. 13

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Dec. 21, 2009

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Regular Season Rank	26
Playoff Rank	28
Bonus Money	185,000

Regardless of what happens in 2010, Stewart Cink is going to love hearing himself announced on the first tee as the reigning British Open champion. The affable man from Georgia has higher expectations for himself, though, and he'll be looking to build on that career-defining performance at Turnberry. Cink played near-flawless golf that Sunday on the western coast of Scotland - making birdie on the final hole to force a playoff with everyone's sentimental pick, Tom Watson. He went on to shoot 2 under in the four-hole aggregate playoff and beat the 59-year-old by six strokes in what will likely always be an underappreciated first major for Cink. Still riding that moment, the Georgia Tech grad came to Firestone two weeks later and tied for sixth in the World Golf Championships-Bridgestone Invitational. It was his fourth top-10 in a season that also saw him reach the consolation finals of the World Golf Championships-Accenture Match Play Championship and earn more than $1.9 million.


A Southern gentleman in the great tradition of the game and now he has a major. It took a long time for Cink to live up to enormous expectations.

Cink was 28-for-128 on putts ranging from 15 to 20 feet this year (21.88 percent), which ranked 33rd on TOUR. For the year, Cink made 88.54 percent of his putts from under 10 feet.

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