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The World Long Drive Championship is an annual long drive competition in the sport of golf. It was first held in 1974, and since 2000 has comprised Open, Masters (over-45s) and Women's events. It was first held in 1974, and since 2000 has comprised Open, Masters (over-45s) and Women's events.
The record distance achieved in the South African Long Drive Championship is 506 yards (463 m) by Nico Grobbelaar in September 2012. Fast swingers can swing their club heads at over 150 mph (240 km/h), well beyond the 93 mph (150 km/h) average for an amateur.
The season-long schedule features events airing live on Golf Channel, culminating in the Volvik World Long Drive Championship in September. Carlborg is a record five-time Volvik World Long Drive champion, having won the annual title in 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015 and 2017.
It was just World Long Drive champion Kyle Berkshire and his buddies launching some bombs 4½ miles away at Bear Lakes Country Club. Berkshire and his pals can hit it high (250 feet) and hit it long.
The biggest hitter on the PGA Tour shows he can compete with anybody when it comes to the long ball. Bryson DeChambeau blasts his way into final day of long-drive World Championship Skip to main ...
Berkshire, a 23-year-old from Maryland whose ball speed has topped out — so far — at about 230 mph, is ready to return to the more conventional game and hopes to eventually earn his way into ...
In December 2021, Berkshire set a new world record for indoor ball speed with 233.4 miles per hour (375.6 km/h). [7] In October 2023, shortly before the World Long Drive Championship, Berkshire had set a new record for ball speed at 241.6 mph, as well as the longest golf drive ever fully verified at 579.63 yards. [8] On October 22, Berkshire ...
[1] [2] Competing in the US National Long Drive Championship, [6] he won 6th place in 1976, 2nd place in 1982, 1st place in 1983 (becoming at age 41 the oldest to do so [3]), and 3rd place in 1988. [ 2 ] [ 7 ] His 1983 1st place win at the Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades, California earned him the title of World Long Drive Champion ...