Scottie Scheffler is nowhere near the PGA Tour right now and he won’t be for another few months. He did his damage during the main championship season. And Ben Griffin is thankful for that.
Griffin notched his third PGA Tour win of 2025 on Sunday, shooting a lights-out 63 in El Cardonal in Diamantejust one day after I joked, “I found out Scottie wasn’t going to be in the field in Cabo, so I felt like I had a chance.”
Scheffler’s key is not wrong, cheeky as it may be. The last time they put it together, it was Scheffler winning the Procore Championship in Napa. Griffin finished second alone. Three months ago, tango at Memorial, where Scheffler took first. Griffin, again, finished alone in second.
He did his best a week before the Memorial, where Griffin won for the first time as an individual. (Scheffler finished T4). Griffin’s first Tour win came at the Zurich Classic, a team event where he teamed with Andrew Novak. This victory will now push him into the top 10 in the world rankings for the first time in his life, something that even his biggest supporters would have scoffed at just a few years ago.
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No, Memorial co-leader Ben Griffin isn’t surprised he’s here
Josh Berhow
Griffin’s recent growth is well covered, given that he left the professional ranks to become a mortgage loan officer in the early 2020s after playing golf in college at North Carolina. It was only the beginning of 2023 when he started playing at an average level of the PGA Tour, and he remained there for the last few years until 2025 when he took off in a way that no one could have expected. Sunday’s win is his 11th top-10 finish worldwide this calendar year.
He has become an elite shooter – despite using a new shooter this week! — as well as a high-level ball striker. It was on display Sunday, where he played every par 3 at El Cardonal, and even got a little emotional when talking about it after the round with Golf Channel’s Kira Dixon.
“My dad always calls me Mr. Par-3,” Griffin said when it became official, with a pause in his throat.
His wife, Dana, stood by his side during the interview. They’re getting married in a few weeks, and she was getting just as excited as her fiance, a reminder that even a third win during a Fall Series event brings its own set of stakes.
“Three wins and a wedding in the same year,” Griffin said to close the interview, “is hard to beat.”
We will agree with that. The third win helped Griffin join Scheffler and Rory McIlroy as the only players to win three PGA Tour events this calendar year.
