Ben James is one of the most promising college golfers since Tiger Woods. But he missed crossing paths with the 15-time major champion on Tuesday for a hilarious\u2014but understandable\u2014reason.<\/p>\n
James recently turned pro after graduating from the University of Virginia, where he won seven times and became the first player in a quarter century to earn First Team All-America honors for all four years in school. In his pro debut at the RBC Canadian Open earlier this month, he held the 36-hole lead<\/a> and he finished T-23 at the U.S. Open last week.<\/p>\n So, the dude is a total stud. Which is why the Travelers Championship extended a sponsor invitation to him this week for this PGA Tour signature event. Well, that and the fact that he also happens to have grown up in nearby Milford, Conn. <\/p>\n That plays a key role in this story, because James is getting to sleep in his own bed this week. And apparently, he’s still got the sleep habits of a college kid because here’s what he said when he was asked about whether he saw Tiger Woods, who was on hand at TPC River Highlands<\/a> for the big PGA Tour announcements<\/a>.<\/p>\n “I was sleeping in my bed in Milford,” James replied. “I wasn’t here.”<\/p>\n Amazing. Maybe next time, Ben. It should be pointed out that Tiger wasn’t exactly there at the crack of dawn, either. He was on hand for Brian Rolapp’s session with the media that ran from 10 a.m. to about 11 a.m.<\/p>\n It should also be pointed out that James didn’t do his Q&A until noon. Smart move by tournament officials. Although, he’s got a 9:05 a.m. tee time on Thursday. Better set a couple alarms, Ben.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ben James is one of the most promising college golfers since Tiger Woods. But he missed crossing paths…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27110,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[2122,6054,10818,144,82,1142,1594,1425],"class_list":["post-27109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ben-griffin","tag-ben-griffin","tag-ben-james","tag-ben-james-gives-hilarious-reason-for-why-he-missed-seeing-tiger-woods-at-the-travelers-championship","tag-pga-tour","tag-story","tag-tiger-woods","tag-tour-life","tag-travelers-championship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}