Overview
- Cink arrives at Scioto Country Club having won four times this season including the Senior PGA Championship and The Tradition and leading the PGA Tour Champions money list.
- The U.S. Senior Open begins Thursday, July 2, at Scioto with a 156-player field that includes 24 of the tour’s top 25 money leaders.
- Course analysis and player comments emphasize Scioto as a second-shot and putting test that can limit the advantage of raw driving distance and reward precision approaches.
- Media outlets have listed Cink as a pre-tournament betting favorite at around +450, a report that the player has downplayed as he says he is treating the event as a standalone goal.
- Cink finished runner-up in last year’s U.S. Senior Open and his run this season is being measured against rare senior achievements like career grand slams compiled by Bernhard Langer and Jack Nicklaus.