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PGA Tour star who quit golf and suffered Masters heartbreak shows up Scottie Scheffler
Ben Griffin has taken the Charles Schwab Challenge by storm, where PGA Championship winner Scottie Scheffler is also competing, and it’s been quite a journey for the PGA Tour star to get to this point
Ben Griffin posted a stellar 7-under par at the Charles Schwab Challenge on Friday to surge to joint top of the leaderboard alongside Matti Schmid.
But the 29-year-old’s journey to this point has been one of setbacks, comebacks, and fortitude. With a crippling debt weighing him down, Griffin, who’s previously shared the weekly cost of being a pro golfer, quit golf in 2021 and became a mortgage loan officer. “I’d lost my motivation and love for golf,” he told Golf Digest. “The stress of playing with $15,000 of credit-card debt was agony, so I quit.”
Changing his lifestyle and adopting a vegan diet introduced by his girlfriend, Griffin took up the game again and got his PGA Tour card in 2023. But it’s still not been all plain sailing after he suffered Masters heartbreak this year.
After agonizingly missing out on competing for a Green Jacket despite grinding 12 tournaments in a row, Griffin had to then correct media outlets that had reported him being there.
“Unfortunately, the media was a bit misleading about a top-28 [finish] qualifying me for The Masters,” he said. “I played my best and moved to 51 in the OWGR, fractionally missing. Off to week 13 in a row! Time to win in San Antonio.”
But the hard work is paying off. Griffin, who won the Zurich Classic alongside Andrew Novak, has a real chance of getting his first solo PGA Tour win. A round of eight birdies and a single bogey in Fort Worth has propelled him to the top of the leaderboard.
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Djokovic learns fate in new home as Sabalenka addresses behaviour
Express Sport brings you the latest tennis news from the Paris Masters.
We’re reaching the business end of the Paris Masters, as eight players become four in the French capital. Jannik Sinner is the overwhelming favourite to lift the trophy after Carlos Alcaraz was dumped out by Cameron Norrie in the Spaniard’s opening match. Norrie was then beaten by Valentin Vacherot, whose amazing 10-match winning streak at Masters 1000 level came to an end when he lost to Felix Auger-Aliassime.
Canadian star Auger-Aliassime will face Alexander Bublik in the semis. Bublik defeated Alex de Minaur, who is among those to have already qualified for the year-end ATP Finals. Sinner is through to his first Paris Masters semi-final after beating Ben Shelton. He’ll face defending champion Alexander Zverev, who survived a tough match against Daniil Medvedev.
Novak Djokovic is not involved in the Paris Masters, having decided to skip the event for the second year in a row, but he has learned his fate in the draw of next week’s ATP 250 in Athens. And over in Riyadh, the WTA Finals are about to get underway.
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