{"id":4421,"date":"2024-03-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dwjqp1.com\/cink-valspar-todd-streelman-justin-thomas-hughes-cf30b9554e8d901089161dfedd3e21b9\/"},"modified":"2024-03-22T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T00:00:00","slug":"cink-valspar-todd-streelman-justin-thomas-hughes-cf30b9554e8d901089161dfedd3e21b9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwjqp1.com\/cink-valspar-todd-streelman-justin-thomas-hughes-cf30b9554e8d901089161dfedd3e21b9\/","title":{"rendered":"Cink at age 50 part of a five-way share of the lead at Innisbrook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PALM HARBOR, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Stewart Cink made a great escape from the pine straw for an unlikely birdie and had a 4-under 67 that gave him a five-way share of the lead Friday in the Valspar Championship and a chance to entertain thoughts of winning for the second straight tournament.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s just one difference for Cink. The golf course is a lot longer. And the guys he is trying to beat are a lot younger.<\/p>\n<p>The 50-year-old Cink, who blew a chance to win on the PGA Tour Champions two weeks ago with a back-nine meltdown, looked steady on a day of 30 mph gusts in the morning, some wind in the afternoon but not close to the nasty weather expected at Innisbrook.<\/p>\n<p>He was tied at 6-under 136 with Kevin Streelman (72), tour rookie Chandler Phillips (68), Brendon Todd (69) and Mackenzie Hughes (68).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a reason that so many players rave about this course,\u201d Cink said. \u201cIt requires everything, and so far this week I\u2019ve done everything fairly well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Everyone faced various conditions, though Streelman and Phillips got the tougher end of the draw with wind bending pine branches and snapping pant legs. At least it was in one direction, not the scary, swirling nature in the afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>    <a name=\"more-section-display-name\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    READ MORE<\/p>\n<p>    <a aria-label=\"Mitchell holes out 7-iron on the 18th to take 2-shot lead heading into final round at Innisbrook\" href=\"https:\/\/dwjqp1.com\/article\/keith-mitchell-valspar-innisbrook-hughes-cink-eac381404787bd785ec8269c5d78f969\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/dwjqp1.com\/article\/keith-mitchell-valspar-innisbrook-hughes-cink-eac381404787bd785ec8269c5d78f969\">Mitchell holes out 7-iron on the 18th to take 2-shot lead heading into final round at Innisbrook<\/a><\/p>\n<p>    <a aria-label=\"Former USC player Malia Nam leads at Palos Verdes in 2nd career LPGA Tour start\" href=\"https:\/\/dwjqp1.com\/article\/lpga-tour-seri-pakpalos-verdes-6d0dcc4e0e885b031bb8410b4dfb8e72\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/dwjqp1.com\/article\/lpga-tour-seri-pakpalos-verdes-6d0dcc4e0e885b031bb8410b4dfb8e72\">Former USC player Malia Nam leads at Palos Verdes in 2nd career LPGA Tour start<\/a><\/p>\n<p>    <a aria-label=\"Maude-Aimee Leblanc of Canada shoots 64 to take LPGA Tour lead at Palos Verdes\" href=\"https:\/\/dwjqp1.com\/article\/lpga-tour-8864df516448f4e1156b8d1682b1cb9d\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/dwjqp1.com\/article\/lpga-tour-8864df516448f4e1156b8d1682b1cb9d\">Maude-Aimee Leblanc of Canada shoots 64 to take LPGA Tour lead at Palos Verdes<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis place is tough even in good weather,\u201d Streelman said.<\/p>\n<p>Justin Thomas was poised to join the log jam at the top until he badly missed the 18th green to the right in a tough lie in the bunker and made bogey for a 69, leaving him in the group one shot behind that included Lucas Glover (69).<\/p>\n<p>    <a name=\"html-embed-module-e30000\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we got very lucky with the weather,\u201d Thomas said. \u201cI know those guys had a lot of wind this morning, we had some this afternoon, it just was very gusty and it made that back nine very challenging.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said he lost focus on his 8-iron from the 18th fairway \u2014 \u201ca bad time to have the worst shot of the tournament so far,\u201d he said \u2014 but had no complaints about his position going into the weekend on the Copperhead course.<\/p>\n<p>The cut won\u2019t be official until Saturday morning with about a dozen players failing to finish before darkness, but one thing was clear \u2014 this tournament was wide open. Only six shots separated the players sharing the lead to the players making the cut on the number.<\/p>\n<p>The cut was set at even-par 142, sending home an All-Star cast from a tournament that didn\u2019t have all that many in the first place \u2014 Jordan Spieth, two-time Innisbrook winner Sam Burns, British Open champion Brian Harman, Tony Finau and Keegan Bradley all missed the cut.<\/p>\n<p>For Spieth, it was the first time since 2017 that he missed the cut at regular PGA Tour events in consecutive weeks (Players Championship, Byron Nelson).<\/p>\n<p>None of the players who share the lead are in the Masters \u2014 a win would take care of that \u2014 and Todd is best positioned to at least try to get into the top 50 after next week to earn his way back to Augusta National.<\/p>\n<p>Todd was most pleased that he had a good attitude on Thursday in sunshine, knowing Friday would be tougher. It was all of that for just about everyone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith the wind blowing that hard, you just had to expect that every once in awhile a shot was going to go somewhere you didn\u2019t want,\u201d Todd said. \u201cIt happened a couple times to me, but I was able to grind through it with a few birdies and a few great par saves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> Cink, who recently became a grandfather, is still irritated by playing the final six holes in 5 over \u2014 including a triple bogey \u2014 at the Cologuard Classic in Arizona two weeks ago on the PGA Tour Champions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeing in contention feels the same way no matter where you are, to be honest,\u201d he said. \u201cObviously, the field is a little different here at Valspar than it was the last time I teed it up at Cologuard in Tucson. But it still feels the same and I didn\u2019t have a very good finish there. &#8230; I should have won the tournament and I didn\u2019t finish it off. I had a little bit of a meltdown.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo I\u2019m just thrilled to be right back at the top of the leaderboard,\u201d he said. \u201cI get another chance to learn some really great lessons and maybe some hard lessons this week again.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>___<\/h2>\n<p>AP golf: <a data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/dwjqp1.com\/hub\/golf\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/golf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PALM HARBOR, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Stewart Cink made a great escape from the pine straw for an unlikely birdie and had a 4-under 67 that gave him a five-way share of the lead Friday in the Valspar Championship and a chance to entertain thoughts of winning for the second straight tournament. 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