If Tiger Woods makes golf sexy, Stewart Cink is the game's flannel nightgown.
Cink is like the head of his Nike driver -- oversized, and pretty close to square.
So while Cink collected handshakes on Tuesday at Hazeltine at the first major since his first major victory, a father by the first tee pointed and told his son, "That one won the British Open! ... No, the tall one."
It's been that kind of month for Cink, who played Hazeltine's back nine Tuesday while preparing for the PGA Championship.
At Turnberry, it took about an hour for Cink to go from the nice guy who couldn't win the big one to the prankster who ruined the cover of the next AARP Magazine, when he crushed popular-as-a-tax-cut Tom Watson in a playoff. Cink might as well have shot Ol' Yeller.
"For a minute there," Cink said, when asked about Watson, "I thought maybe Tom did win the Open."
Nope, it was the 6-4, 205-pound bald guy who got married and started a family before graduating from Georgia Tech, the guy so nice it would be hard to imagine him playing mind games with a 59-year-old legend.
But after Cink made a birdie putt on 18 at Turnberry, and Watson made bogey to set up the playoff, Cink suddenly took a keen interest in cleaning his cuticles.