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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.
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 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.
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]
Maurice Allen (born November 20, 1981) is a World Long Drive Competitor, former two time number one ranked in the world. Allen competes in events that are sanctioned by the World Long Drive Association, which is owned by Golf Channel, part of the NBC Sports Group, and a division of Comcast.
He competed in his last National Long Drive Championship in 2008 at the age of 66. [2] His longest competition drive was 369 yards at a competition held in Tokyo, Japan. [2] He hit a 427-yard drive at a Professional Golfers Association clinic, and his longest recorded drive ever was 547 yards at the Lakeside Golf Course in Ponca City.