Despite being 47 years old, Cink was able to average 288.6 metres (315.6 yards) off the tee and took a lot of pressure off by hitting 61 of 72 greens in regulation for an 84.72 percent clip.
Practising one-handed chips is one of the few ways you can attempt to cure the chipping yips. But to actually try it in competition? That takes some serious guts, and it takes even more guts to pull it off.
Players and officials still in the area were forced to evacuate the Napa Valley when fire ravaged the area shortly after the conclusion of the US PGA Tour’s Safeway Open.
Phil Mickelson, even at 47, remains a high-wire act oblivious to the risk while still enthusiastically chasing the reward, meanwhile holding our attention when it ought to have been diverted elsewhere.