BILTMORE CHAMPIONSHIP

September 20, 2026

Ben James

The Cliffs at Walnut Cove

Quick Quotes

Q. Ben, great finish with 10-under today. Talk through the round and how you made that climb up the leaderboard.

BEN JAMES: Yeah, it was a great day. Started with a approach shot to like three feet. Really kind of struggling with the putter all week, but I think I looked at my stats and I gained almost four today.

Just rolled it great. Hit it -- I think the only fairway I missed was on the last and that was an unfortunate break to roll one foot in the rough. Great up and down. Had a lot of momentum. Kept hitting a lot of the greens and fairways which is nice to do on any day.

Q. There are a lot of low scores coming in today. At what point during your round today did you kind of think maybe I can make a run at it? Or did you have that thought coming into the day?

BEN JAMES: Yeah, I wasn't really thinking about winning. I knew that it would probably take something in the 50s, but I made a nice probably 25-footer on 16 and I was like, oh, we could get close. Just kind of missed my eagle on 17. Probably knew I needed to make that.

Still played a heck of a round of golf and looking forward to keeping the momentum going to Utah.

Q. Early on the season you had trouble in the final rounds; last couple final rounds have been amazing. Find anything or just played great?

BEN JAMES: Yeah, I would say I'm a little more comfortable. I think this is still only event nine as a pro so still not a whole lot of the golf.

I think we've played in college golf a lot of three-round tournaments and now this is four rounds and just a lot more golf, so I think kind of knowing that I made some tweaks with my coach and my golf swing to make it more stable for those four days.

But, no, just been having great attitude on these final rounds and I really had nothing to lose the last two Sundays from -- at Greensboro and here and just putted great.

Q. What's the schedule?

BEN JAMES: Yeah, unfortunately not in Japan. Pretty bummed about that. But I'll play probably every other event so I'll be busy.