​When Stewart Cink thinks back to when things started to click for him on the PGA Tour Champions circuit, he thinks back to Michigan. It was August 2024, and he was playing the Ally Challenge in Grand Blanc for the first time since turning 50. It was his first time playing Warwick Hills Golf & Country Club since the old Buick Open days.Cink decided before the 2024 Ally that he was going to make the PGA Tour Champions tour his full-time tour.AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementHe went out that week and won his first Champions tournament. He’s won seven Champions tournaments since, including the Ally Challenge again last year. Next month, Cink will go for the three-peat.Stewart Cink reacts after making a birdie on the 17th hole during the third and final round of the Ally Challenge at Warwick Hills Golf & Country Club on Aug. 24, 2025, in Grand Blanc.”The golf course is fun to play. You know what you’re going to get every year,” Cink said Tuesday during Ally media day, speaking to Michigan reporters virtually while preparing to play this week’s British Open at Royal Birkdale in England. “We know how to play it. It’s just a question about how you execute.”And I think that’s one of the reasons players love playing at Warwick Hills. There’s no tricks.AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisement”It’s just a pleasure to play a golf course like that.”Cink, 53, has become one of the stars of the PGA Tour Champions, winning four times this year, including the season’s first two majors. He missed on a third major, losing to Padraig Harrington in the final round of the U.S. Senior Open earlier this month.He will go for a third straight Ally, though, when the tournament is played Aug. 28-30. Cink is trying to become the first player to win the same PGA Tour Champions tournament three straight years since Steve Stricker won the Sanford International from 2022-24.Cink’s two victories at Warwick have come in different styles. In 2024, his ball-striking, his bread and butter, was on, as he cruised to a four-shot win over K.J. Choi. Cink finished 17 under. Then, last year, he was more wild off the tee, making things tougher at tree-lined Warwick. But his putter saved him. He was 15 under and beat Ernie Els in a playoff.AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementThis year marks the ninth playing of the Ally Challenge, and potentially the last. The title sponsor’s contract runs through 2026, and there is no word on any imminent extension.Michigan already is losing the PGA Tour’s Rocket Classic after it’s held for the eighth and final time from July 30-Aug. 2 at Detroit Golf Club, after Rocket declined to pick up its option for 2027 amid looming and significant changes to the PGA Tour’s scheddule. LIV Golf is supposed to again hold its season-ending team championship at The Cardinal in Plymouth Township the same weekend as the Ally, but those plans are shaky amid LIV Golf’s funding crisis.”It’s sad,” PGA Tour Champions rookie Michael Block said of the Rocket Classic