Miguel Angel Jimenez continued his good season by capturing the third main on the PGA Tour Champions slate, the Kaulig Corporations Championship, on Sunday in Akron, Ohio.
Jimenez, who triumphed for the fourth time in 2025, defeated Steven Alker on the second further gap of a playoff on the famed Firestone Nation Membership. He drained a 20-foot birdie putt on the 18th gap after Alker missed from simply exterior of Jimenez’s distance.
The 61-year-old Spaniard was two strokes behind Alker coming to the seventeenth gap. However he birdied each Nos. 17 and 18 to achieve 10-under-par 270 and pressure a playoff.
“It was a pleasant end, no?” Jimenez stated. “… I hit an exquisite second shot on the seventeenth, hit the ball like 2 1/2 meters kind of and I holed the putt. After which on the 18th I hit an exquisite driver there and a 52 wedge after which make a putt for birdie as much as there.
“I have been taking part in strong, very effectively. After which missed a few putts round there, make two bogeys, however happy, very strong, and I simply made two birdies to complete on the 72nd gap. And now within the playoff right here, effectively, missed the birdie the primary time, he made par on the second gap. He was placing for birdie earlier than me and I holed the putt for birdie.”
The playoff combatants entered the ultimate spherical tied at 8 underneath after back-to-back 66s by Jimenez. They every carded 2-under 68s on Sunday and completed two photographs away from Stewart Cink, who posted a 66 for a four-day whole of 8-under 272.
Steve Flesch tied the week’s finest with a 5-under 65 and completed three strokes behind at 7 underneath.
Jimenez secured his third senior main, however his first since profitable each the Areas Custom and the Senior Open Championship in 2018. He now has 17 profession victories on the 50-and-over tour and obtained an invite to play within the 2026 Gamers Championship.
Jimenez’s first victory of the season occurred on the Trophy Hassan II in Morocco, which additionally got here at Alker’s expense. The 53-year-old New Zealand native misplaced by two strokes to Jimenez in February and lamented some parts of the Sunday’s last spherical.
“Yeah, I had an opportunity to win the golf match,” Alker stated. “It was some sloppy golf within the center, I needed to form of mentally battle via some missed fairways … however I used to be actually happy with how I form of got here down the stretch. I hit the final like 5 fairways or one thing and 5 greens and simply gave myself possibilities. Yeah, I am happy with that.
“Miguel, the best way he completed, he simply did Miguel issues once more, you understand what I imply? So kudos to him.”
Cink, 52, is having fun with his time on the tour and the competitors.
“I would not say it seems like a significant from the common tour days, nevertheless it seems like professional golf once you’re in competition and you’ve got an opportunity to win on Sunday on the PGA Tour Champions,” Cink stated. “That is what I like about it’s that you simply get an opportunity to be in competition so much and take a look at your self, and on a course like Firestone it feels as near a significant as you will get.”
Subsequent, the gamers head to Broadmoor Golf Membership in Colorado Springs, Colo., for the U.S. Senior Open, which will get underway on Thursday.
–Area Stage Media
