Four years ago, Ben Griffin was working as a mortgage loan officer in North Carolina after briefly retiring from professional golf. After the last month he's had on the PGA Tour, he might never need a loan again.
Griffin continued his scorching hot streak of play this past week with a solo second-place finish at the Memorial Tournament at Muirfield Village Golf Club.
The 29-year-old gave Scottie Scheffler a run for his money, but a double bogey on the par-4 17th hole on Sunday ended any chances of a Signature Event win. Still, he left Ohio with a delicious Muirfield Village milkshake and a $2.2 million check—the largest of his entire career.
Big checks have become rather familiar to Griffin over the last few weeks.
In April, he banked a $1.3 million payday by winning the Zurich Classic of New Orleans, the lone team event on the PGA Tour schedule, alongside Andrew Novak. He picked up another $53,600 at the Truist Championship in early May and brought home $454,781 for his T8 finish at the PGA Championship.
The following week, he won the Charles Schwab Challenge to bank another $1.71 million.
Add it all up, and Griffin has earned a whopping $5,747,781 over the last six weeks. Incredibly, that accounts for 41.5 percent of his $13,839,357 career earnings on the PGA Tour. More than half of his career earnings ($7,116,471, to be exact) have come from this season alone.
It's been a life-changing year for Griffin, who already has two wins and seven total top-10 finishes in 19 starts this season.
He currently ranks fifth in the 2025 FedEx Cup standings and just bumped up to 15th in the Official World Golf Ranking, his highest career position to date.
Aside from punching his ticket to the U.S. Open and The Open Championship this year, Griffin also qualified for the 2026 Masters. It will mark his first career appearance at Augusta National Golf Club. Oh, and his two wins locked up his PGA Tour card through 2028.
Griffin has come a long way since grinding on the Korn Ferry Tour, Canadian Tour, and PGA Tour Latinoamerica for years. As mentioned, in 2021, he essentially gave up on his dream of becoming a professional golfer. The North Carolina native left the mini-tour life and took a job as a mortgage loan officer, but he decided to give pro golf another shot in 2022. Boy, is he sure glad he did.
Fast forward to 2025, and Griffin is now one of the best, highest-earning golfers in the world. Don't give up on your dreams, kids.