{"id":60690,"date":"2026-09-03T16:06:04","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T16:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/60690\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T16:06:04","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T16:06:04","slug":"ben-griffin-joins-scottie-scheffler-rory-mcilroy-as-three-time-pga-tour-winners-this-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/60690\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Griffin joins Scottie Scheffler, Rory McIlroy as three-time PGA Tour winners this season"},"content":{"rendered":"

LOS CABOS, Mexico \u2014 Ben Griffin 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 and Rory McIlroy as the only players with at least three wins, with one of those for Griffin a team event in New Orleans.<\/p>\n

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

\u201cAfter 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,\u201d Griffin said. \u201cFortunately, 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s how the $6 million purse will be paid out at the PGA Tour\u2019s World Wide Technology Championship.<\/p>\n

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

Sami Valimaki (64) and Chad Ramey (65) tied for second and picked up a valuable consolation. Valimaki started the week at No. 103 in the FedExCup 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 FedExCup keep full status for 2026.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese 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,\u201d Valimaki said.<\/p>\n

Griffin\u2019s biggest challenge came from Garrick Higgo and Carson Young, who shared the lead going to the back nine on another day of virtually no wind.<\/p>\n

Higgo\u2019s 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

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Valimaki and Ramey each jumped inside the top 100 in the FedExCup after tying for second Sunday at the World Wide Technology Championship<\/p>\n

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

\u201cCrazy, three wins and getting married in the same year, hard to beat,\u201d Griffin said.<\/p>\n

Higgo moved to No. 52 in the FedExCup, 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 FedExCup Fall.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of good stuff,\u201d Higgo said. \u201cI\u2019ve been in contention the last four events, so I\u2019m just going to keep doing what I\u2019m doing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS CABOS, Mexico \u2014 Ben Griffin avoided the mistakes that slowed his two challengers Sunday and rolled in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60691,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[2122],"class_list":["post-60690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ben-griffin","tag-ben-griffin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60690","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=60690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}