Ben Griffin had an explanation for his rollercoaster round on Sunday during the 2025 BMW Championship. But it’s not one you would have ever expected.
Griffin started his final round at Caves Valley Golf Club in Owings Mills, Maryland, with a four-putt from 4 feet for triple bogey, a drive out of bounds that resulted in a double bogey and a bogey at the third. He was 6 over for the day but he battled back to shoot 1-under 69.
So, what happened? He took too big a dose of the supplement creatine.
“I didn’t take it until I basically tee’d off on 1. I was at the end of my batch. I had basically a snowball of creatine, so had been in my bucket for a month, and broke it up and put in any water bottle. I’m all good. I’ve taken it on the golf course before. It’s fine,” he said. “I started taking it after my second shot and I accidentally swallowed one of the big rocks in my water bottle. I’ve never overdosed on creatine before, but I think I did in the moment because I didn’t really drink any water after that. I basically just inhaled a snowball.”
Griffin said he was shaking and considered withdrawing from the tournament.
“I’ve never felt like that before and I felt like I had tremors,” he said. “I like was freaking out and didn’t know what to do.”
His caddie stepped in and forced him to chug an entire bottle of water and reset. By the time he got to the fifth tee, he told his caddie, “all right, let’s get it back to even.”
Griffin reeled off three straight birdies starting at No. 7, and four more on the back nine, including a 55-footer at 17. He finished T-12 at 3-under.
“I’m very proud of the way I bounced back,” he said.
And kids, learn from Griffin and make sure not to overdose on creatine.
Read the full article here
