Ben Griffin Charles Schwab the victory was ‘grind’ that fits his uplifting in PGA Tour

Ben griffin He once gave up professional golf. On Sunday afternoon at Fort Worth, he showed no departure.

Fighting the nerves and windy conditions of the wind in a ripe colonial club of the country, Griffin set off for a hot start and held to the end, slamming his way to a 1-on 71 and a win with a stroke to Matti Schmid in 2025 Charles Charles Schwab.

His victory, at the 12th for the week, was the first individual title of Griffin PGA Tour, and another emphasis on what was a breakout season for the 29-year-old, who also captured the team forms Zurich Classic of New Orleans with partner Andrew Novak a month ago.

“Nice beautifully, I don’t want to say the silence of the haters,” Griffin said. “But there are definitely some hate comments I received last night, and I used it as fuel today to win an individual victory.”

Not a little achievement for a guy who once seemed destined for a desk job. A former North Carolina, Griffin graduated in college in 2018 and won the status of Korn Ferry next year, but lost six cuts in his first eight starts. By the spring of 2021, fighting to find his game and faced increasing financial pressure, he raised his sticks and signed for a sustainable payment as a mortgage intermediary.

That he returned to Golf was quite a flow.

A few months after he began his number of chewing career, Griffen recalled that he was registered for an open qualifier in the US. Since it was too late to restore his money, he decided to play and tried to advance in sections, losing the main event in Torrey Pines with a stroke.

His fire for rebuilt game, Griffin returned to Grind and won his PGA Tour card in 2022. Where its first two seasons were strong but not prominent, 2025 was a spark, with five top-10s and two narrow calls before Charles Schwab in which he held the 54th tour.

Stranging Sunday in Colonial in a tie once again with Schmid on the 13th-nine Griffin said he planned to put the “pedal in metal”. And he lived until that promise in the early beginnings, competing with Eagle-Birdie in the first two holes to open a three-stroke lead. But he did not make another bird the rest of the day, and the round became a fight just to hold at the wheel.

It helped no one else to make a serious run.

In a leading light on the lamps, Scottie Scheffler and Tommy Fleetwood, who started the sixth day and five shots back, respectively, present the threats with the greatest name. But Scheffler passed Sunday mainly on idle, while Fleetwood made an early charge with an front four underneath, just to deceive down the stretch.

This left Griffin and Schmid, who was also looking for his first PGA Tour victory in what he achieved in a final pairing of the match.

There are no pictures on the results card, but there are PGA Tour at the event. And while the day was dressed in colonial, the images were not beautiful. With winds falling up to 30 miles an hour, both Griffin and Schimd produced wild shots in numerous discs that were placed in the rough, where Tangled Bermuda’s lies made it ready to keep small and rusty colonial greens.

“The nine rear was quite heavy,” Griffin said. “I didn’t go to nine back hoping to hit one or two greens in the regulation, however much it was. It is just very difficult. I am very challenging. I am proud of how I slammed the stretch.”

Drawing on his bed, Griffin made the herd rod in the 14th and 15th holes, and when Schmid threw par-4 17 from a stretch of fried eggs in a green side bunker, the margin was two with a par-4 18 to play.

Profit is never easy. Grabing a first individual win is even more difficult. And Griffin had made things double difficult for himself leaving his approach to a difficult lie from a bunker on the green side that forced him to hit a muted chip while standing in the sand. He drew that beautiful blow, running his ball just more than three meters from the cup. But the tension was tightened again when Schmid, in need of a miracle, was put into Birdie by a bank by the basin left by green, forcing the Griff of Jar one final putt.

The past challenges, Griffin said, makes it for the task.

“Crazy is crazy about how fast things can change in this game,” he said. “Even returning when I haven’t had any status in any tours. It is a bunch of stepping stones that get you to the rest of your career. Now I’m at the point where I feel like I’m starting to be an elite golf player. I can compete against the best.”