Lanto Griffin is heading again to the PGA Tour and 5 others are coming with him.
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Lanto Griffin performed “pissed off” this week.
On Wednesday, after his second-consecutive down yr on the PGA Tour, he was informed he wouldn’t have any standing on the Korn Ferry Tour, however by Sunday none of it mattered.
Griffin fired a final-round seven-under 63 on Dye’s Valley Course at TPC Sawgrass at PGA Tour Q-Faculty to earn medalist honors and his PGA Tour card for the 2025 season. 5 different golfers will be part of him as six golfers completed the week at 4 below or higher with the highest 5 gamers and ties incomes PGA Tour membership.
It’s Griffin’s first win worldwide since his rookie season on the PGA Tour, when he triumphed on the 2019 Houston Open, however his sport had fallen off within the years since.
After a strong run of sustained success the place he completed inside the highest 100 of the FedEx Cup factors listing three years in a row earlier than a again damage knocked him out of motion in the summertime of 2022.
His comeback in 2023 and 2024 resulted in only one top-10, and misplaced him full-time standing on the PGA Tour, however that wasn’t what pissed him off this week at Q-Faculty.
Griffin performed out of the previous champion class this previous season and earned 22 begins, however nonetheless completed 158th within the FedEx Cup Fall standings, a methods off the highest 125 mark wanted to maintain his card for 2025.
Then on Wednesday, he realized he wouldn’t have any assured begins on the Korn Ferry Tour subsequent season if he needed to re-earn his card that means.
“That e mail Wednesday evening that I wasn’t going to even have assured Korn Ferry Tour begins, that was— it form of pissed me off, ticks me off,” he mentioned Sunday. “In order that was a little bit chip on— you recognize, me and my psychological coach have been speaking about enjoying with a chip in your shoulder, being an athlete. Doesn’t actually matter what it seems like. Yeah, that was the purpose popping out right here this week and compete as laborious as I can.”
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On Sunday evening, as he spoke to members of the media, the mission was completed.
After three rounds at Sawgrass Nation Membership and Dye’s Valley Course at TPC Sawgrass, Griffin went off Sunday, beginning the day in eighth place and rocketing up the leaderboard to complete three photographs forward of anybody else.
“I suppose when your again’s in opposition to the wall you form of simply need to— you don’t have a selection,” he mentioned, “Clearly it might have gone a unique route this week for me, however my focus was good.
