Reigning Charles Schwab Cup winner and PGA TOUR Champions Player of the Year Stewart Cink matched the low round of the day with bogey-free 64 to open the 2026 season with a victory at the Mitsubishi Electric Championship at Hualalai.

Stewart Cink, 66-63-64 – 193 (-23)

• The 52-year-old earned his fifth win on PGA TOUR Champions (37 starts).
  • Wins (five): 2024 Ally Challenge, 2025 Insperity Invitational, 2025 Ally Challenge, 2025 Charles Schwab Cup Championship, 2026 Mitsubishi Electric Championship at Hualalai
• Becomes the first player to win back-to-back tournaments on PGA TOUR Champions since Ángel Cabrera (2025 Regions Tradition, 2025 Senior PGA Championship).
  • Cink won the 2025 Charles Schwab Cup Championship (final event of 2025 PGA TOUR Champions season).
• This is his low 54-hole score in an individual stroke play event on PGA TOUR Champions (193).
  • Previous low: 197 (2025 Charles Schwab Cup Championship; note: this was a 72-hole event)
• Earned his first win at the Mitsubishi Electric Championship at Hualalai (three starts)
  • Previous finishes: T5 (2024), T8 (2025)
• Led the field in birdies (24) and ranked T1 in driving distance (312.2 yards)
• Improved to 2-for-7 when leading/co-leading entering the final round on PGA TOUR Champions
• Becomes the first Charles Schwab Cup leader of the 2026 season after closing the 2025 season by winning the Charles Schwab Cup
• Was named 2025 PGA TOUR Champions Player of the Year (Jack Nicklaus Award) on Tuesday night

Other notes

• First timer at Hualalai Ángel Cabrera finished runner-up at 20 under after closing with 66. Cabrera ranked T1 in driving distance this week with Cink (312.2 yards).
• World Golf Hall of Fame member Retief Goosen (third) matched Cink for the low round of the day (64) to finish at 18-under. This is Goosen’s fourth top-six at the Mitsubishi Electric Championship at Hualalai (six starts).
  • Previous top-six finishes: T4 (2020), 2nd (2021), T6 (2022)
• Three players finished T4 at 17-under: defending champion and World Golf Hall of Fame member Ernie Els, 36-hole co-leader and first timer at Hualalai Freddie Jacobson and first timer at Hualalai Thomas Bjørn.
• Bernhard Langer (T9), 68, carded 68 to shoot his age or better for the second consecutive day and 37th time overall on PGA TOUR Champions. The World Golf Hall of Fame member is a three-time winner of the Mitsubishi Electric Championship at Hualalai (2009, 2014, 2017).
• Jay Haas (T24), 72, posted 72 to shoot his age or better for the third consecutive day and 41st time overall on PGA TOUR Champions.