It was a record-breaking feat on several different levels for Griffith as Findlay was second at the Brickyard Invitational, a 54-hole tournament in the heart of the fall season earlier this week.
The senior set a new school record for the lowest tournament score and posted the second-best 54-hole total in conference history with a cumulative score of 8-under par at Brickyard Crossing GC.
Griffith finished with a two-day score of 208 to place runner-up in the individual standings only behind UIndy’s Keegan Bronnenberg (-11).
Griffith was in the top 10 with teammate Tanner Grzegorczyk (9th). His second-round score of 67 (-5) was the lowest for the tournament field and ranks among the best 18 holes in Great Midwest history. He also tied his personal best round after a 67 (-5) in last year’s SVSU Spring Invitational.
His 54-hole total of -8 is second only to the Trevecca Nazarene tandem of Larken Whittemore and Blain Turner, who both went -12 at the Mississippi College Invitational in 2018.
Griffith entered this season with a career scoring average of 74.90, ninth all-time in conference history since 2012 among qualified players with 36 or more completed rounds.
His 2019-20 scoring average of 73.13 during the shortened campaign is 12th best in conference history.
This is his second conference career weekly honor. He also was named athlete of the week in 2018 with a 6-under par 210 at the Kyle Ryman Memorial Invitational. Findlay claimed back-to-back weekly conference honors following the selection of freshman Justin Atkinson.