Pro golfer Ben Griffin pointed to an unlikely catalyst for his poor start during his final round at the BMW Championship over the weekend.

Griffin, 29, found himself six-over par over his first three holes at Caves Valley Golf Club in Owings Mills, Maryland, on Sunday, August 17, which he blamed on swallowing a huge chunk of creatine, a natural source of energy often linked to athletic performance.

“The problem was, I have a tub and I was basically down to the very end, and I just had this rock of creatine that was all built up together,” Griffin told CNN Sports on Monday, August 18. “I’m literally in the locker room chopping it up and putting it in the water, and it’s not really dissolving … because the creatine was all blocked up, I wasn’t really drinking it.”

Griffin continued, “Then

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