F-21: Top 60 points leaders and ties in Official World Golf Ranking, as of May 19

The former University of North Carolina standout will make his U.S. Open debut, thanks to being among the top 60 points leaders in the Official World Golf Ranking as of May 19. The Chapel Hill, N.C., native, who turned professional in 2018, earned his maiden PGA Tour victory with fellow North Carolina native Andrew Novak at the 2025 Zurich Classic of New Orleans in late April, and then captured his first individual title with a one-stroke win at the Charles Schwab Challenge at Colonial Country Club, in Fort Worth, Texas. Prior to joining the PGA Tour, Griffin worked his way through the ranks of various tours, including PGA Tour Latinoamerica, PGA Tour Canada and the Korn Ferry Tour. Prior to his win in New Orleans, his lone professional victory was the 2018 Staal Foundation Open on PGA Tour Canada. He did lose a five-man playoff at the 2023 Sanderson Farms Championship on the PGA Tour, and the 2022 BMW Charity Pro-Am on the Korn Ferry Tour to Robby Shelton. He also was the runner-up in the 2024 RBC Canadian Open. Before the Zurich Classic, Griffin had registered three top-10s, including a pair of T-4s in consecutive weeks (Mexico Open at VidantaWorld and Cognizant Classic in The Palm Beaches). He briefly quit the game and became a mortgage loan officer at a bank before regaining his confidence and passion to play professional golf. Griffin's great-grandfather, Ben Shields, was a Major League Baseball pitcher for the New York Yankees, Boston Red Sox and Philadelphia Phillies in the 1920s and '30s.