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Ben Griffin WITB (26th May, 2025) - What's In The Bag? The Memorial @ Muirfield Village Golf Club

Griffin’s driver is built like a linebacker and swings like a sniper rifle. The 10K head is the size of a toaster, but Ben hits fades so buttery they should be served on toast. The 7TX shaft is built for speed and torque, and if you can flex it, congratulations—you are legally a superhero.

May 31, 2025

Ben Griffin’s 2025 Season: Welcome to Chaos Golf, Sponsored by Maxfli

Ben Griffin is not your average PGA Tour player. He’s not a former amateur phenom with a trust fund and a Florida mansion. He’s the guy who quit pro golf to become a mortgage broker—and then came back to start dunking on Tour guys like he’d never left. If Jordan Spieth is golf’s golden boy and Patrick Cantlay is a malfunctioning robot, Ben Griffin is the sarcastic intern who accidentally wins Employee of the Month.

2025 has been nothing short of a fever dream for Griffin. One moment he’s top-10’ing at Bay Hill, the next he’s shanking wedges on live TV and still somehow walking off with a par. His game is like a YouTube tutorial that skipped the editing phase—raw, unpredictable, and just weird enough to work.

January to March: Scrambling and Side Quests

Ben opened the season at the Sony Open, where he made the cut with a Friday 64 and then shot 75-76 on the weekend because the golf gods needed content. He followed that up with a T21 at the Farmers Insurance Open, where he hit a drive 342 yards, lost a wedge in a pond, and made more birdies than Jon Rahm. Nobody noticed because Golf Channel had the cameras fixed on Ludvig Åberg's hair.

At the WM Phoenix Open, Griffin had what can only be described as a full-blown existential crisis on the 16th hole. He airmailed the green, bladed the chip, four-putted, and still managed to finish T14 thanks to a closing eagle and what we can only assume was a goat sacrifice on the practice green.

April: Masters? Nah. Heritage? Oh Yeah.

No invite to Augusta? No problem. Griffin turned his FOMO into fuel and went scorched earth at the RBC Heritage, finishing T8 while leading the field in strokes gained: “Let’s Just See What Happens.” His putting was unconscious. He made a 42-footer on 13 that broke more than Tiger’s back after 2008. It wasn’t just a putt—it was a seismic event.

At Zurich, Griffin teamed up with a college buddy and promptly missed the cut. His explanation? “We played like roommates after three too many Fireballs.” Nobody questioned it.

PGA Championship: The Griffin Gambit

Griffin's showing at the PGA Championship was his version of a breakout party… at least for 54 holes. He was sitting T6 going into Sunday, swinging like a man possessed, and putting like a savant. Then the pressure hit, his tempo went to hell, and he three-jacked from 12 feet on back-to-back holes. He finished T22 and walked off smiling like he’d just watched someone else do it. Because that’s Ben—self-deprecating, absurdly honest, and weirdly clutch even when he’s not.

As of May, he’s already racked up $3.2 million, three top 10s, and one viral video of him trying to putt out of a sprinkler head.

Ben Griffin’s 2025 WITB: Pure Chaos in Custom Spec

Ben Griffin’s golf bag is the equipment equivalent of a Craigslist personal ad: “Must like spin, chaos, and bad decisions that somehow work out.” But don’t let the Maxfli ball fool you—this setup slaps harder than a Tiger fist pump in 2005.

Griffin’s driver is built like a linebacker and swings like a sniper rifle. The 10K head is the size of a toaster, but Ben hits fades so buttery they should be served on toast. The 7TX shaft is built for speed and torque, and if you can flex it, congratulations—you are legally a superhero.

This is the club Griffin uses when he wants to hit a 285-yard draw that lands like a soap bubble. It’s also the club he uses off the tee when the driver’s on punishment. The 8TX shaft is a telephone pole masquerading as graphite.

Forget hybrids. Griffin’s 3-iron is a straight-up metal dagger. It flies low, spins just enough, and doesn’t care about your soft feelings. The X100 shaft is about as forgiving as a missed car payment.

These irons are forged masterpieces, and Griffin swings them like he’s chopping firewood during a lightning storm. The X100s are the classic choice for masochists who love feedback and hate distance help. Crisp contact or go home.

Griffin’s wedge game is either divine or deranged—no in-between. The Mizunos give him control, but the MG4 lob wedge is for trick shots, floaters, and the occasional “accidental” blade that ends up 3 feet from the pin. S400s bring just enough extra weight to get weird with spin.

Putter: Scotty Cameron Concept 2 Tour Prototype – SuperStroke Zenergy 1.0PT

Ben’s Scotty looks like a spaceship and putts like it’s tuned to his brainwaves. This is the same guy who led the Tour in strokes gained: putting for 3 weeks straight using a grip that looks like he borrowed it from a pool cue.

Ball: Maxfli Tour X

Yes, you read that right. Maxfli. Griffin’s playing a ball that costs less than your lunch and spins more than a political debate. But it works. Low-key elite compression, great feel, and the kind of off-brand magic that makes Ben Ben.

Grips: Golf Pride MCC

Tacky, hybrid, all-weather—just like his golf personality.

Memorial Tournament 2025: Ben Griffin’s Odds, Ends, and Outright Chaos Potential

Welcome to Muirfield Village, where the fairways are tight, the rough is a biblical plague, and the greens are slicker than a politician in a bar fight. The Memorial Tournament is Jack’s annual gift to the Tour: a ball-striker’s paradise and a short-game graveyard.

Which makes Ben Griffin’s chances… weirdly good?

Griffin enters the week ranked 22nd in strokes gained: approach, and he’s top 10 in proximity from 125-175 yards—a key range at Muirfield. If he keeps striping his Mizuno S3s, he could have 12–14 birdie looks per round. That’s the good news.

The bad news? The greens are faster than your ex moving on, and Griffin has been known to hit a few putts that make you question the very laws of physics. If his Scotty stays dialed, he’s dangerous. If it doesn’t, buckle up for a lot of 3-foot lip-outs and memes.

Course conditions will be firm, fast, and mean—just how Griffin likes it. He’s a low-spin, high-flight guy who doesn’t mind shaping shots around trees or bouncing 3-irons off cart paths if necessary.

Muirfield also favors creative shotmakers, and Griffin is basically the Bob Ross of the PGA Tour. He paints with wedges, dances with spin, and only occasionally shanks it into a hot dog stand. He thrives in chaos, and the back nine on Sunday at Memorial is pure, unfiltered, caffeinated chaos.

Last year he finished T16, and that was with a short game hotter than a pepperoni pizza. This year, he’s smarter, richer, and somehow still under the radar. Don't be surprised if he makes a sneaky move into contention heading into Sunday.

Prediction: T5. He scrambles like a man dodging debt collectors, rolls in a 50-footer on 17, and finishes with a grin and a Maxfli ball in his pocket. Jack Nicklaus doesn’t know what to make of him—and that’s exactly the point.

Driver: Ping G430 Max 10K 9°, UST Mamiya Lin-Q Proto V1 7TX shaft

3 Wood: TaylorMade Qi35 15°, UST Mamiya Lin-Q Proto V1 8TX shaft

Utility: Mizuno JPX 923 (3), True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue X100 shaft

Irons: Mizuno Pro S3 (4-PW), True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue X100 shafts

Wedges: Mizuno Pro T1 50°, 56° (10), TaylorMade MG4 60° (09SB), True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue S400 shafts

Putter: Scotty Cameron Concept 2 Tour Prototype, SuperStroke Zenergy 1.0PT

Ball: Maxfli Tour X

Grips: Golf Pride MCC

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