{"id":282377,"date":"2025-11-10T01:59:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T01:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/282377\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T01:59:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T01:59:08","slug":"ben-griffin-wins-in-mexico-for-3rd-pga-tour-title-of-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/282377\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Griffin wins in Mexico for 3rd PGA Tour title of year"},"content":{"rendered":"

LOS CABOS, Mexico — Ben Griffin<\/a> avoided the mistakes that slowed his two challengers Sunday and rolled in three long birdie putts for a 9-under 63 to win the World Wide Technology Championship for his third PGA Tour title of the season.<\/p>\n

Griffin two-putted for birdie on the par-5 18th at El Cardonal at Diamante for a two-shot victory. He joined Scottie Scheffler<\/a> and Rory McIlroy<\/a> as the only players with at least three wins, with one of those for Griffin a team event in New Orleans.<\/p>\n

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Griffin, playing for the second time since his Ryder Cup debut, ran off five straight birdies starting at No. 8. That included a 40-foot putt on the par-3 11th to tie the lead, a 25-foot putt on the 12th for his first lead and a 25-foot putt on the par-3 16th that all but sealed it.<\/p>\n

He made birdie on all four of the par 3s.<\/p>\n

“After making a few birdies early, I kind of pushed myself a little bit harder than the past few weeks when I was in contention to kind of keep the pedal down,” Griffin said. “Fortunately, the putter heated up, made a lot of putts on the back nine. It was fun feeling the nerves down the stretch trying to hold things off. It was nice to make a couple down the stretch.”<\/p>\n

Griffin moves to a career-best No. 9 in the world ranking.<\/p>\n

Sami V\u00e4lim\u00e4ki<\/a> (64) and Chad Ramey<\/a> (65) tied for second and picked up a valuable consolation. Valimaki started the week at No. 103 in the FedEx Cup and moved to No. 76, assuring a full card for next year. Ramey went from No. 123 to No. 89 and is likely safe to keep his card.<\/p>\n

Two tournaments remain before the top 100 in the FedEx Cup keep full status for 2026.<\/p>\n

“These last three tournaments, only goal was to kind of keep the playing rights for the next year, so I think they should be a done deal with this finish,” Valimaki said.<\/p>\n

Ben Griffin 9 under on Sunday to win the World Wide Technology Championship in Mexico.\u00a0Getty Images<\/p>\n

Griffin’s biggest challenge came from Garrick Higgo<\/a> and Carson Young<\/a>, who shared the lead going to the back nine on another day of virtually no wind.<\/p>\n

Higgo’s came undone with a tee shot into a bush on No. 12 that required him to take a penalty for an unplayable lie, leading to a double bogey. He shot 68 and finished three behind.<\/p>\n

Young made a 15-foot birdie putt on the 12th and was tied with Griffin at 27 under.<\/p>\n

But his approach on the 13th went left down a slope, across a cart path and into the native area. He made bogey, hit a pedestrian pitch on the par-5 14th that kept him from a good look at birdie, and then three-putt for bogey on the 15th. He shot 68 and tie for sixth.<\/p>\n

Griffin had no such issues aside from a three-putt bogey on the fifth hole. He was rock solid from there and finished at 29-under 259.<\/p>\n

And his year is not over. He is getting married next month to Dana Myeroff.<\/p>\n

“Crazy, three wins and getting married in the same year, hard to beat,” Griffin said.<\/p>\n

Higgo moved to No. 52 in the FedEx Cup, which at least locks up a spot for him to play Pebble Beach and Riviera early next season, both $20 million signature events. He has finished no worse that a tie for seventh in his four starts during the FedEx Cup Fall.<\/p>\n

“A lot of good stuff,” Higgo said. “I’ve been in contention the last four events, so I’m just going to keep doing what I’m doing.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS CABOS, Mexico — Ben Griffin avoided the mistakes that slowed his two challengers Sunday and rolled in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282378,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-282377","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}