Stewart Cink scrum interviews at Warwick Hills CC on Media Day 2025 to promote the Ally Challenge
giving that personal touch, huh? Well, I like being back here, you know. Um, I have good memories not just from winning Ally last year, but also from PJ tour days. Um, this place is just got a, you know, place in my memory that is, uh, is special. So, um, I’m honored to be the champion and come back and do this media day is fun and just be back on the grounds here. You know, I’ll be sort of reminiscing a little bit, I’m sure. What are some of your favorite uh, aspects of this course stylistically that that makes it so fun for you? I think it’s just the traditional layout of the course and the conditioning. You know, we expect high standards, but here you get it for sure. And it’s uh had changed a lot. It’s almost like a time capsule. You know, it’s just stood the test of time. It’s a it’s it’s not the um you know, it’s not a brute of a golf course, but it’s uh it’s got its own little challenges and interesting topography with kind of ridge here. These holes on this side of the ridge all slope that way, and you have to factor that in on your butts. And then opposite is true. when you get on that part of the course there, it takes a little bit of of uh experience to figure that out. How important is it to have an event still here after it’s history, you know, with you open? What does that mean to have an event? Well, I think to anytime the PJ tour plays at a course for a long time and then it transitions over to the Champions Tour, um, a lot of the players naturally are also transitioning. So, it’s good for us because a lot of us have seen it and you know, we get to go back to a familiar place cuz it’s not just the golf course. When we come to a town, we stay here for one week, but we learn a lot about the town that has nothing to do with the golf course, like where to go eat, where to get our coffee, where to stay, you know, we make friends and places. So, it’s always good to return to familiar uh locations and and courses, but it’s not just the courses. So, what’s one of your favorite places around here? Deluardo is one of my favorite places. It’s awesome. It’s pretty close to where I stay multiple times. Um there’s also Yemen coffee shop here that’s pretty cool that you don’t see or expected that you’re probably not, you know, expecting that kind of response from the golfer, but yeah, it’s just a I live in the south, so coming to Michigan is a little different experience and a lot of different parts of the world. Yeah, I actually Yeah, I you guys. Okay. Uh Stuart, this year on the 2025 um uh PGA Tour Champions, every year has its own little personality. You come out there, I think you’ve have you have I think you won one or two events this year. So yeah, you had one win. So the personality, a lot of the great players are starting to age out. You got some young players coming in. Burnhard, he’ll probably be playing after you retire. But uh but what about the Is there a personality you see in the season so far? There’s a lot of new players that are coming along or you know I don’t know Matt Cooer I mean Cooer he’s still playing on the PGA tour. He can play out there. I mean I don’t even know what I’m asking you other than to say that everything’s turning over. Everything’s turning over a second. I thought he was 50 already. I think this year has been a year of sort of resurgence of the older guys more than the newcomers. I guess I consider myself still kind of a newcomer because I’m 52, but I didn’t start playing Champions Tour off until pretty far after my 50th birthday. But look at uh Miguel Gimenez. He’s just played amazing this year. He’s had three wins and he’s come very close to a couple more. And so um I think he’s 59 or 60 years old. I’m not really sure about that. But the guys from, you know, that that have been out there and established themselves are the ones that are really playing great. Ernie has re reestablished himself this year. Um, project character is going to be good for a long time. And, you know, I think we’ll have some battles in the future. But, it’s uh seems like it’s been more about the the guys who are out there for a long time, playing well again, and sort of have a resurgence in their careers than than the guys that are turning 50. Just the kind of the way it es and flows. What do you enjoy about having a champions tour? About playing the champions tour? Uh, I think the number one thing is that I know everybody. You know, um, when I play on the PJ tour at 52 years old, you are
