AUGUSTA, Ga. – Drinks are on Stewart Cink this evening.
The 48-year-old Cink made an ace at the par-3, 170 yard 16th hole at Augusta National.
Cink, playing in his 20th Masters, struck an 8-iron and then enjoyed watching a magical moment.
He already had started walking to the green after his ball landed some 30 feet right of the hole.
“Come on down,” patrons at the green can be heard pleading.
The ball did just that, catching the slope and as if pulled by a magnet funneling down the hill and into the right side of the cup for an ace.
Cink lifted both arms in the air and hugged his caddie, his son, Reagan. It just so happened to be Reagan’s 24th birthday and father and son continued their celebration by slapping both hands. Fellow competitor Harry Higgs came over for a hug too, while the third member of the grouping, Brian Harman, settled for a congratulatory knock of the knuckles.
It was the 24th ace in Masters history at 16, and the sixth career hole-in-one for Cink in his PGA Tour career. That’s tied for the eighth-most aces on Tour since 1983 when hole-by-hole tracking started.