PHOENIX — For just the fourth time, the Charles Schwab Cup Championship tournament winner is also the PGA Tour Champions season-long champ.

Stewart Cink outdueled Steven Alker on Sunday at Phoenix Country Club to win both trophies and join Tom Watson, Tom Lehman and Kevin Sutherland in an exclusive club.

Cink won for the third time this season and fourth overall on the Champions tour with a two-shot victory over Alker on Sunday.

"Well, it feels really, really good. It's something that's very unusual, too, because normally in golf you make goals and you just cross them off that you didn't make them," he said on the practice green at Phoenix Country Club green moments after winning. "Obviously we want to push ourselves with goals that are lofty, but on the PGA Tour Champions, this is as lofty as it gets. The season-long Charles Schwab Cup race is really the biggest item on the docket. So to have put it out there and to make it my goal and to talk about it often and then to accomplish it, there would have been a chance to maybe like crumble out there. It feels great. I'm just so pleased. I'm proud of putting myself out at risk just as much as I am of accomplishing the goal."

Cink parred the par-5 18th hole after Alker hit his second into the greenside lake and recorded a bogey there. Cink shot a final-round 67. He started the final round down a shot to Alker, who has won two of the last three season-long Schwab titles.

After Friday's second round, the duo were paired in the final group for Saturday's third round, with Cink saying "it's exciting to be in the group with the guy that you need to hunt down."

The two would get paired again for Sunday's final round and by the time the duo got the 12th tee box, Cink was up three shots.

"Very uncharacteristically, he gave me that little three-putt there on 12, I think it was after I just made a birdie putt," Cink said. "That's just not something he does very often, but I knew that was going to light a fire in him."

And that it did, as Alker would birdie three of his next four holes to cut the deficit to one with two to go. They would each par the 17th, bringing it all down to the par-5 closing hole.

Cink said he didn't see Alker's second shot sail into the greenside lake but noted the crowd's reaction kinda told him something went wrong with it.

"I had a pretty nice yardage into the wind there," said Alker. "I wanted to give myself a chance. I tried to hold up a 5-wood and I just overdid it. So I knew I at least needed to make birdie. It was just a nice number. I didn't even think about laying up, it was just go. I just didn't pull the shot off, that's all."

Cink then laid up before hitting his third onto the green. From there, it was a formality, with Cink tapping in for par to close it out.

Winning in the Phoenix area was special for Cink who does have some ties the Valley of the Sun.

"I've always loved being here. I played some junior golf with my family at courses all around this little area here, Dobson Ranch, Encanto, courses like that," he said. "I've got ties and memories going back to my childhood around here. My aunt and uncle still live here, grandparents passed away, but this is an area that we came to a lot for visiting and it means a lot to me. And my parents were here. It's a family week for us."

Cink joins Tom Watson (2005), Tom Lehman (2012) and Kevin Sutherland (2017) on the short list of double dippers on the senior circuit.

This article originally appeared on Golfweek: Stewart Cink becomes the fourth to win both trophies at Charles Schwab Cup Championship

Reporting by Todd Kelly, Golfweek / Golfweek

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