{"id":79197,"date":"2025-08-19T05:54:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T05:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/79197\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T05:54:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T05:54:10","slug":"golf-news-2025-ben-griffin-creatine-overdose-during-bmw-championship-four-putt-on-first-hole-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/79197\/","title":{"rendered":"Golf news 2025, Ben Griffin creatine overdose during BMW Championship, four putt on first hole video"},"content":{"rendered":"

Commentators and spectators could scarcely believe their eyes when Ben Griffin began his final round at the BMW Championship on Monday.<\/p>\n

The American world No.17 was in the hunt for a win at the $30 million 50-player tournament which acts as the penultimate week for the FedEx Cup playoffs.<\/p>\n

He hit off the first tee and found the fairway, then hit the green in regulation on the par-four to give himself a birdie chance.<\/p>\n

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But Griffin then took a swig from his drink bottle and everything fell apart.<\/p>\n

He mysteriously four-putted from inside five feet of the cup to card a double bogey, then walked to the second tee and whacked his drive out of bounds.<\/p>\n

After his first three holes he was 6-over for the round and viewers were struggling to comprehend the catastrophe unfolding.<\/p>\n

\"Ben<\/p>\n

Ben Griffin four-putted the first hole after overdosing on creatine.\u00a0Nine<\/p>\n

Griffin ended up composing himself and going 7-under through his last 15 holes, and later explained exactly what happened during those disastrous three holes.<\/p>\n

“It’s kind of an interesting story,” he laughed.<\/p>\n

“I take creatine as a supplement, this morning I didn’t take it until I basically teed off on (hole) one.<\/p>\n

“I was at the end of my batch… I’ve taken creatine on the golf course before, it’s fine. But I took it after my second shot and I accidentally swallowed one of the big rocks that was in my water bottle.<\/p>\n

“I’ve never overdosed on creatine before but I think I did. I started getting super shaky, I’ve never felt like this before and I literally felt like I had tremors.<\/p>\n

“I four-putted on one and then on two I was freaking out, I didn’t know what to do and I hit (my drive) so far out of bounds.<\/p>\n

\"Ben<\/p>\n

Ben Griffin speaks about his creatine overdose.\u00a0Twitter<\/p>\n

“Luckily my caddie stepped in and made me chug a heap of water, I honestly tried to calm down a little bit. Then I was fine.<\/p>\n

“Then I felt good, I went about my day and got it back to under par. But pretty crazy story, I don’t think I’ll be taking too much creatine in the future – I will take it but probably not the amount I did on the golf course, which probably wasn’t a healthy amount.”<\/p>\n

Creatine supplement aids muscle growth and recovery and is popular among athletes.<\/p>\n

Griffin finished his round 1-under for the day and 3-under for the tournament, earning him a tie for 12th spot and a spot in the $60m Tour Championship field this week.<\/p>\n

His three-hole nightmare on Monday probably robbed him of a spot in America’s Ryder Cup team. He sits ninth on the list – only six golfers are picked – and will need to rely on a Keegan Bradley captain’s pick to get into the team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Commentators and spectators could scarcely believe their eyes when Ben Griffin began his final round at the BMW…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-79197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}