PHOENIX (AP) — Stewart Cink won the PGA TOUR Champions' season-ending Charles Schwab Cup Championship on Sunday at Phoenix Country Club to take the Charles Schwab Cup season points title.

Cink closed with a 4-under 67 to finish at 20-under 264, two strokes ahead of Steven Alker, the third-round leader who also ended up second in the season standings. Alker bogeyed the par-5 18th in a 70.

The 52-year-old Cink won for the third time this season and fourth in 36 career starts on the 50-and-older tour. He won eight times on the PGA TOUR, highlighted by a playoff victory over Tom Watson in the 2009 Open Championship.

Freddie Jacobson (66), Jerry Kelly (67) and Tommy Gainey (68) tied for third at 15 under.

Things to know

• Stewart Cink closed with a bogey-free 67 to slip past Steven Alker and claim his first Charles Schwab Cup with his victory at the season-ending Charles Schwab Cup Championship.

Stewart Cink, 64-68-65-67 – 264 (20 under)

Charles Schwab Cup standings – Start: Third / Finish: First

• Captured his first Charles Schwab Cup (2025)
  • Becomes the 13th different winner in the 24-season history of the Charles Schwab Cup, dating back to its inception in 2001
• Becomes the fourth player to win the Charles Schwab Cup Championship and Charles Schwab Cup in the same year, joining Tom Watson (2005), Tom Lehman (2012) and Kevin Sutherland (2017)
• Matched the fewest weeks leading the Charles Schwab Cup standings by a player to go on to win the Charles Schwab Cup that season (one week)
  • Previous instances: Tom Watson (2005), Bernhard Langer (2015), Kevin Sutherland (2017)
  • Weeks led in 2025: Miguel Angel Jiménez (23 weeks), Ernie Els (3 weeks), Steven Alker (one week), Cink (one week)
• Started the week No. 3 in the Charles Schwab Cup standings and controlled his own destiny with a win, regardless of how any other player finished

Additional Cink notes

• The 52-year-old earned his fourth win on PGA TOUR Champions (36 starts).
• Earned his third win of the 2025 season (21 starts)
  • Previous wins in 2025: Insperity Invitational (May 4), The Ally Challenge (Aug. 24)
• Becomes the fourth three-time winner of the 2025 season on PGA TOUR Champions, joining Miguel Angel Jiménez (4), Ángel Cabrera (3) and Steve Allan (3)
• Earned his first win at the Charles Schwab Cup Championship (second start)
  • Previous finish: T6 (2024)
• Carded his low 72-hole score on PGA TOUR Champions (264)
  • Previous low: 270 (2025 U.S. Senior Open)
• Matched the low 72-hole score by any player this season on PGA TOUR Champions (264)
  • Previous instance: Padraig Harrington (2025 ISPS HANDA Senior Open)

Steven Alker, 66-65-65-70 – 266

Charles Schwab Cup standings – Start: first / Finish: second

• In his bid to win a third Charles Schwab Cup in four years, Alker finished second in the tournament and No. 2 in the final Charles Schwab Cup standings after entering the week No. 1.
• After making one bogey in his first 61 holes of the tournament (No. 12, second round), Alker made three bogeys in a five-hole stretch on Sunday (Nos. 8, 10, 12) before closing with a bogey on No. 18.
• The 54-year-old remains one of seven multi-time winners in the 24-season history of the Charles Schwab Cup (2022, 2024).
  • Other players to win multiple Schwab Cups: Bernhard Langer (6), Tom Lehman (2), Loren Roberts (2), Jay Haas (2), Tom Watson (2), Hale Irwin (2).
  • Alker’s finishes by season in the Charles Schwab Cup standings: 18th (2020-21), won (2022), second (2023), won (2024), second (2025)
• Has finished in the top three in all five of his appearances at the Charles Schwab Cup Championship
  • Finishes by year: second (2021), third (2022), won (2023), T2 (2024), second (2025)

Other notes

• Jerry Kelly and rookies Freddie Jacobson and Tommy Gainey each finished T3 at 15-under.
• Vijay Singh (2018 tournament champion) carded the low round of the day with 6-under 65 and finished T8.
• Miguel Angel Jiménez, who entered the week No. 2 in the Charles Schwab Cup standings, finished T10 at 12 under. He finished No. 3 in the Charles Schwab Cup race after leading for 23 of the 28 weeks during the season.
• Defending champion Bernhard Langer (14th) closed with 1-over 72 to finish at 11-under. His streak of consecutive years with a win on PGA TOUR Champions comes to an end at 18, a record across all PGA TOUR-sanctioned Tours.
• Cink, Jiménez and Alker each surpassed $3 million in earnings for the 2025 season to become the 10th, 11th and 12th players in the PGA TOUR Champions to reach that mark.
  • Cink’s $3,247,147 is No. 6, Jiménez’s $3,171,998 is No. 7 and Alker’s $3,169,266 is No. 8 on the Champions Tour’s single-season earnings list.
  • This is the first season in PGA TOUR Champions history with three players earning more than $3 million.