Florence’s Stewart Cink made his 500th cut on the PGA Tour on Friday, and he did it in style.

The Bradshaw High School alumnus was tied for the lead when the second round was suspended with 15 players still on the course.

Cink is at 6-under par at the Valspar Championship after carding a 4-under 67 on Friday. The 50-year-old is tied for the top spot with Mackenzie Hughes, Chandler Phillips, Kevin Streelman and Brendon Todd.

Cink would have sole possession of the top spot, but he bogeyed his final hole on the Copperhead Course at Innisbrook Resort in Palm Harbor, Florida. A three-putt kept Cink from recovering from a poor tee shot.

Cink reached 500 cuts made in his 667th PGA Tour start. The PGA Tour record-holder for cuts made is Jay Haas with 592.

“It feels great,” Cink said. “Being in contention feels the same way no matter where you are, to be honest. Obviously, the field is a little different here at Valspar than it was the last time I teed it up at Cologuard in Tucson on the PGA Tour Champions. But it still feels the same, and I didn’t have a very good finish there. I was — to say in contention would be, like, understating it. I should have won the tournament, and I didn’t finish it off. I had a little bit of a meltdown.

“So I’m just thrilled to be right back at the top of the leaderboard to test myself out again this week because that’s really what you want at the start of the year. You want to get in contention as much as possible and let the chips fall. You start trying to control too many things out there, it doesn’t work out in your favor. So I get another chance to learn some really great lessons and maybe some hard lessons this week again.”

At the Cologuard Classic, Cink played the back nine at La Paloma Country Club in Tucson, Arizona, in 4 over in the final round on March 10, including a triple-bogey on the par-4 13th hole. Cink finished to 9 under for the tournament and faded to a seventh-place finish in the PGA Tour Champions event.

Mark Inabinett is a sports reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter at @AMarkG1.