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IRVING, Texas — Billy Horschel’s emotions from winning the AT&T Byron Nelson went far beyond ending more than two years without a victory. One day after Horschel was vague about issues off the course, his wife took to Twitter to reveal she is battling alcoholism. Brittany Horschel said last weekend marked the one-year anniversary of her sobriety. “I write this nervously, skeptically, but also proudly because I have embraced the woman I have become over the past year,” she write in a poignant post. “One year ago, I began a journey to a healthy me, mentally and physically. I will keep his simple, `I am an alcoholic.’ I say that now without shame.” Horschel and his wife met at Florida, where she played on the golf team. She gave birth to their first child, a daughter, right as Horschel was winning the BMW Championship and the TOUR Championship at the end of 2014 to capture the $10 million FedExCup. They had their second child in April. Horschel declined to get into specifics on the extra layer of emotions after his playoff victory over Jason Day. “Just life gets in the way sometimes and, you know, it’s truly special to be winning on something on a day like this that’s I honestly … I’m not able to talk about it right now,” he said. “But it’s just lot of stuff happens in the last year and this is just … this is nice.” Brittany Horschel said in her post that her husband respectfully left her to answer it however she wanted, if at all. “However, to not answer would not only be unfair to him, but to my own integrity,” she said. She said she spent the end of last May through July in a treatment center in South Florida. She said her husband took full responsibility taking care of their first child, moving into a new home, competing on the PGA TOUR and “God only knows what else and what all went through that man’s head during that time.” “He silently battled through, with support from family and close friends, a very sad, scary and trying time,” she wrote.

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HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. — Stewart Cink maintained his five-stroke lead and set another scoring mark at the RBC Heritage with a 2-under 69 on Saturday, moving closer to his third victory at Harbour Town Golf Links. RELATED: Leaderboard | Wesley Bryan back in happy place at RBC Heritage Cink, 47, cooled off from his pace in the first two rounds, when he shot a pair of 63s for his lowest career 36-hole score and shattered the event’s halfway scoring mark shared by Jack Nicklaus and Phil Mickelson. This time, Cink scrambled his way to 18-under 195, also a tournament mark for lowest 54-hole score. The record had been held by Justin Leonard at 16-under 197 in 2002. PGA Championship winner Collin Morikawa was at 13 under after a 67. Emiliano Grillo of Argentina had a 69 and was another shot behind in third. Matt Wallace of England and Sung-jae Im of South Korea were tied at 11 under. Wallace shot 65 and Im 69. While Cink slowed down, no one else could dent his large lead amid Harbour Town’s narrow fairways and smallish greens. That left Cink in prime position for a third plaid winner’s jacket for his collection after finishing first in 2000 and 2004. Cink rallied from behind in both of his previous wins here. His challenge 17 years later will be maintaining his poise on a course where front-runners are often upended. Only once in the past eight tournaments here as the third-round leader come out on top — and that was Webb Simpson last year. Corey Conners began the day five shots behind Cink and finished with a 72. He was in a group of four at 10 under that included defending champ Simpson. Simpson, who set the scoring mark of 22 under last June, had the round’s lowest score at 64. While the first two rounds showed off Cink’s accuracy, this one called on his scrambling ability to stay out front. He was right off the tee on No. 1 and left of the fairway on No. 3, the latter miscue leading to his first bogey since Thursday’s opening hole. Cink slammed the door on any hope he might falter with back-to-back birdies on the fourth and fifth holes to restore the big lead. On the back nine, Cink saved par after driving onto the pine straw on No. 11 and again on the next hole after his tee shot stopped against a small, loose branch left of the fairway. When Cink rolled an 8-footer for birdie on the 14th — his first in 40 rounds on that tricky par 3 — he had a six-shot lead. Any hope of the world’s top-ranked golfer, Dustin Johnson, making a third-round charge ended with a double-bogey 5 on the par-3 seventh. He shot a 71 and remained at 5 under.

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