Yesterday was my first experience at a long drive competition. Thanks to some beautiful weather, some pretty cool people and a donated club by Jason Frey … I was even able to qualify.
Tag Archives: Long Drive
Hit Ball Far
Long Drive Replaces Bowling
My goal of a perfect 300 in 2007 never rendered in bowling… luckily I carry well over 300 consistently on the course.
Over the last month I have been researching everything I can learn about the RE/MAX World Long Drive Championship in Mesquite, Nevada.
To sum everything I have learned in one giant sentence…
“In order to win $250,000 at the world finals you need to first spend $40 for 6 balls and qualify in a local qualifier which will send you to a $150 entry fee regional championship and if you smack it hard there you will secure one of the 150 available spots to compete against the best of the best at the Mesquite Regional Park firing range where you will spend 3 days of bracketed competition to hopefully reach the head to head final rounds where ultimately you will face last years 20 year old 418 yard drive champion, Jamie Sadlowski who is only 5’10” tall 170lbs but has the ability to double wrist cock and generate ball speed greater then 210 miles per hour off the face of the club and pretty much the only thing you have going for you now is the fact that Jamie only lands 20% of his shots in the 450 yard long 50 yard wide grid which equates to only 1.2 balls out of 6… I hope he misses.”
Thanks to YouTube for providing endless golf tips on how to hit the ball farther. I don’t think I will ever have the Canadian 98mph lefty slapshot that Jamie has… but I do have the power of the internets.
Pinnacle Distance Team – Part 1
Pinnacle Distance Team – Part 2
Pinnacle Distance Team – Part 3
Pinnacle Distance Team – Part 4
Golf + Technology = TrackMan
TrackMan is an amazing little orange device that uses doppler technology to calculate pretty much everything you would ever want to know about your golf swing. Unfortunately TrackMan can not calculate a proper media delivery method from their website – or I would have linked to them.
TrackMan is used by nearly every tour player to analyze their swing and maximize driver distance by calculating swing speed, ball speed, vertical launch degree, launch spin and smash factor. It is also exclusively used by the LDA at the RE/MAX World Long Drive Championship to enhance ESPN’s telecast of the 2009 finals in Mesquite, Nevada on October 25-30th. Who wants to go?
Here are some videos I would like to remember I watched.
TrackMan at 2008 LG Skins Game
TrackMan at 2009 Sony Open
