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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. From 1995 to 2015, the events were owned and produced by Long Drivers of America.
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.
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.
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]
Allen has been competing in long drive events around the world since 2010, where he essentially picked up golf for the first time at age 28. Two years later, he set a then-Guinness world record for the fastest ball speed (211 mph) [2] and in 2015 won three long drive events in Europe (Belgium, Italy, Sweden).
Phillis-Jean Meti MNZM (born 11 July 1987) is a New Zealand golfer who won the Volvik World Long Drive (WLD) championship, title in 2006, 2016, 2018, 2022 and 2024. She holds the female world record for the longest ball in WLD women's competition with distances of 406 yards in July 2017, then 408 and 413 yards in April 2019.