The PGA Tour completed play in Texas for the season on Sunday and did so on the Charles Schwab Problem in Forth Price. Ben Griffin is the lone golfer who stood on high when it was all stated and performed.
Griffin has gained earlier than this season and typically on Tour, however Sunday in Fort Price marked his first solo victory as he and Andrew Novak gained the Zurich Traditional collectively in New Orleans earlier this season. Good for Ben!
The Charles Schwab win is technically Griffin’s second of the season and he joined some fairly unique firm so far as gamers to win a number of occasions this season:
Rory McIlroy
Sepp Straka
Scottie Scheffler
Talking of Rory, he too gained the Zurich final season and went on to win a solo occasion which suggests such a factor has now occurred in consecutive seasons on Tour.
These are clearly some fascinating bits of historical past, however Griffin made a fairly distinctive little bit of historical past on the subject of his successful spherical on Sunday particularly.
You see, the primary gap at Colonial Nation Membership is a par 5. Griffin began his Sunday spherical off robust and recorded an eagle on it.
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That is admittedly spectacular and never essentially one thing that everybody can do to start out off their remaining spherical in a match that they go on to win as a consequence of totally different programs having totally different setups. However Griffin made an eagle on number one and went on to win.
This phenomenon had solely occurred 3 different occasions since 1983. That’s over 40 years!
Okay.J. Choi…………….. 2006 Valspar Championship
Phil Mickelson…….. 2009 The Genesis Invitational
Chris Kirk……………. 2015 Charles Schwab Problem
It’s humorous that the final occasion of a participant making an eagle on the primary gap within the remaining spherical of a match that they’d go on to win occurred on the Charles Schwab as nicely, kudos to Chris Kirk who did it 10 years in the past.
We are able to now formally add Ben Griffin to that record. Possibly we are going to see it once more at Colonial in one other decade as nicely.
