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Ben Griffin, this year’s breakout star on the PGA Tour, has earned $11.7 million on the course this year. And when he marries his fiancée Dana Myeroff on Saturday in Palm Beach, Fla., the CEO of a $200 billion investment firm will officiate the nuptials.
Lord Abbett CEO Doug Sieg has become well-known in the golf world for funding Griffin’s career after Griffin temporarily quit his professional golf journey back in 2021.
But Sieg, who Griffin says is like a father figure, was still shocked by the request to officiate the three-time PGA Tour winner’s wedding. “He was so caught off guard when I asked him,” Griffin told Front Office Sports earlier this week. “He had no clue. He had to Google some things.”
Sieg, also a former quarterback at Penn State, happily got ordained to be a part of Griffin’s big day, which is the latest step in a special relationship between the two.
“He’s the most important sponsor I’ve had and will ever have in my life,” Griffin said. “And it’s no offense to all my other sponsors—and all my other sponsors probably know it—they understand that Lord Abbett was there from the get go when I made this comeback.”
Lord Abbett, which says it manages approximately $242 billion for individuals and institutions around the world, signed a deal with Griffin in 2021, and extended that pact in September. The firm is now a major sponsor of Griffin, who wears the company’s logo on his left chest (prime real estate for pro golfers) during competition. Griffin, who is based in South Florida, also makes regular trips to Lord Abbett’s New Jersey headquarters to visit Sieg and participate in company outings.
The pact goes beyond sponsorship. Griffin, 29, says he has a “significant amount of my money tied up” with Lord Abbett’s investment vehicles. He’s sixth on the PGA Tour this year with $11.72 million in prize money, in addition to a $3.4 million end-of-season bonus. His official career earnings stand at $18.45 million.
This year’s success vaulted Griffin from No. 68 in the Official World Golf Rankings at the end of 2024 to his current ranking of No. 9, and earned him a spot on the U.S. Ryder Cup team in September.
No one could have predicted Griffin’s swift upward trajectory, so it’s no surprise that when he was looking at potential wedding dates last September, Griffin’s biggest priority was avoiding conflicts with fall events he might have to play in to retain his PGA Tour status. “If I have a bad year, I’m gonna have to go to Q-School,” he thought.
That’s why he wasn’t worried that Dec. 6, 2025, fell on the weekend of this week’s Hero World Challenge—the Tiger Woods-hosted PGA Tour event in the Bahamas that only invites 20 of the top-ranked golfers in the world to compete for a portion of its $5 million purse. “It’s a bummer to not be able to play in the Hero,” Griffin said of having to turn down the exclusive invite. “But I’m honestly so excited.”
After getting married, Griffin has big plans for 2026. He’ll play in his first Masters, where he’ll try to channel the late Fuzzy Zoeller, who passed away last month and is the last golfer to win a Green Jacket in their debut at Augusta National—a feat Zoeller accomplished in 1979.
“This was definitely a breakthrough season—pretty crazy to sit back now and look at it and see what I was able to achieve,” Griffin said. “I’m excited to play the Masters for the first time. I’m more excited to be a top player going into the Masters.”
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