Ben Griffin's wedding-date blunder and the cool story of who officiated
Adam Schupak- Golfer Ben Griffin's wedding date conflicted with the Hero World Challenge, an event he qualified for after a successful season.
- Griffin won three times in 2025, earned over $11 million, and made his first Ryder Cup team.
- The wedding was officiated by Doug Sieg, the CEO of an investment firm that sponsored Griffin's return to professional golf.
Even Ben Griffin underestimated how great a season he would have in 2025.
Griffin picked Dec. 6 as the date of his wedding to Dana Myeroff. Whereas we commended Akshay Bhatia for picking the Bahamas for his destination wedding following the Hero World Challenge there, Griffin outsmarted himself. His concern in picking a wedding date was not conflicting with a fall event in case he was fighting for a card in 2026.
“If I have a bad year, I’m gonna have to go to Q-School,” he told Front Office Sports.
Griffin won three times this season, improved to No. 9 in the Official World Golf Ranking and made his first Ryder Cup team. His last concern in scheduling a date to tie the knot was that he might qualify for this week’s Hero World Challenge, which has a field of just 20 golfers competing for a $5 million purse and guarantee of $150,000 for last place. “It’s a bummer to not be able to play in the Hero,” Griffin said of the wedding-weekend conflict. “But I’m honestly so excited.”
Another cool thing from Griffin’s wedding day is whom is officiating the service. Griffin asked Doug Sieg, the CEO of Lord Abbett, to do the honors.
Why Sieg? He helped fund Griffin’s comeback when he decided to give chasing his professional golf dreams a second chance after calling it quits for a short stint in 2021 and taking a job as a loan officer.
“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 got ordained to be a part of Griffin’s big day.
“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 signed a deal with Griffin in 2021, and extended that relationship in September, which includes Griffin sporting the company’s logo on his left chest during competition.
Congrats to Ben and Dana on their big day, the capper to a sensational year in which Griffin won $11.72 million in prize money, sixth most on Tour, in addition to a $3.4 million end-of-season bonus.