{"id":22072,"date":"2025-08-26T07:28:32","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T11:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/08\/26\/stewart-sink-defeats-ernie-elles-to-win-the-challenge-of-his-allies\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T07:28:32","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T11:28:32","slug":"stewart-sink-defeats-ernie-elles-to-win-the-challenge-of-his-allies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/08\/26\/stewart-sink-defeats-ernie-elles-to-win-the-challenge-of-his-allies\/","title":{"rendered":"Stewart Sink defeats Ernie Elles to win the challenge of his allies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>GRAND BLANS, Michigan &#8212; Stewart Sink defended the title in the Alliance Challenge for his second PGA Tour Champions victory, defeating Ernie Els in the first hole of Sunday&#8217;s playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>Cink was closed at a 4-under 68, birdieing two of the last three holes, and matched the ELS at Warwick Hills&#8217; 15-under 201. Else interpreted the last five holes at 69.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s quite stressful, so I don&#8217;t know if it will increase or subtract from your life for years,&#8221; Cink said. &#8220;But if you&#8217;re winning, if you&#8217;re on the side of the stick about this, it feels so good. It was so much fun. I put down the stretch a lot. Ernie hadn&#8217;t done anything wrong and he was in the wrong place today.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cink, 52, won the Insperity Invitational in Texas in May, beating Goosen in the playoffs. He won eight PGA Tours and was the top of the Open in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Cink opened at 62 and shot 71 on Friday, entering the final round stroke behind the ELS.<\/p>\n<p>Steven Alker (65), Cameron Percy (70) and Soren Kjeldsen (70) finished third at 12 under. Goosen (71) and Tongchajaide (69) were under the age of 11.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GRAND BLANS, Michigan &#8212; Stewart Sink defended the title in the Alliance Challenge for his second PGA Tour Champions victory, defeating Ernie Els in the first hole of Sunday&#8217;s playoffs. Cink was closed at a 4-under 68, birdieing two of the last three holes, and matched the ELS at Warwick Hills&#8217; 15-under 201. Else interpreted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22073,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[17],"class_list":{"0":"post-22072","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}