Long Drive World Series - Battlefield of the longest drivers
Long Drive World Series (LDWS) – a new international super league with the best long drivers in the world going head to head in four events.
The LDWS field is made up of 8 of the very best players long drive has ever seen. As the players are from all over the world, they have never been in the same event before.
The first event is on March 17th in Dubai at Jumeirah Golf Estates – the home of the season-ending finale of The European Tour’s Race to Dubai, the DP World Tour Championship. The Tour then travels to London, to Asia and finally to America.
This event is held to make golf more fun and to attract a different kind of television viewer to the sport. The players will all come on to their own theme tunes (songs), there will be sudden death knockouts at every round, the action will be very fast (they have 3 minutes to hit as many balls as possible to beat their opponents.
The prize fund for the first event in Dubai is USD 50,000. The amount will grow at each event.
Here are the faces participating in the event this year:
| Britain’s Joe Miller | Current and Two times World Long Drive Champion |
| America’s Tim Burke |
Two times World Long Drive Champion (Used to play baseball – he was a former college right handed pitcher for the Miami Hurricanes) |
| America’s Maurice Allen | Two times European Long Drive Champion |
| Britain’s Lucas Dornan |
2016 UK Long Drive Champion (Entered the open event UK Long Drive Champion and won at his first try beating 2,000 competitors) |
| America’s Ryan Steenberg | Runner up at the 2016 World Long Drive Championship |
| Britain’s Brad Pearmain | 2016 Italian Long Drive Open winner |
| Serbia’s Ilija Djurdjevic | 2016 Portuguese Long Drive Champion |
| Sweden’s Emil Rosberg |
2016 Scandinavian Long Drive Champion (The youngest competitor at 19, but has already recorded a drive of 456 yards in competition! He only took up long drive a year ago) |
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