439 yard drive Archives - Golf Digest Middle East https://mot-backup.golfdigestme.com/tag/439-yard-drive/ Golf Instruction, Equipment, Courses, Travel, News Fri, 04 Aug 2017 06:21:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.2 https://mot-backup.golfdigestme.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/gd-favicon.ico 439 yard drive Archives - Golf Digest Middle East https://mot-backup.golfdigestme.com/tag/439-yard-drive/ 32 32 Watch Dustin Johnson hit a 439-yard drive at the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational https://mot-backup.golfdigestme.com/watch-dustin-johnson-hit-439-yard-drive-wgc-bridgestone-invitational/ https://mot-backup.golfdigestme.com/watch-dustin-johnson-hit-439-yard-drive-wgc-bridgestone-invitational/#respond Fri, 04 Aug 2017 06:21:09 +0000 http://golfdigestme.com/?p=8027 By Joel Beall No one has ever described Dustin Johnson as a peashooter, and with good reason: the 32-year-old’s routinely among the sport’s long-drive leaders, boasting a tour-best 313 yards off the tee this season (highlighted by a 413-yard rocket earlier this year at Muirfield Village). Even in that cadence, what the 2016 U.S. Open winner did […]

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No one has ever described Dustin Johnson as a peashooter, and with good reason: the 32-year-old’s routinely among the sport’s long-drive leaders, boasting a tour-best 313 yards off the tee this season (highlighted by a 413-yard rocket earlier this year at Muirfield Village). Even in that cadence, what the 2016 U.S. Open winner did on Thursday at the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational is absurd.

On Firestone South’s par-5 16th, DJ sent his drive soaring through the Ohio skies. Perhaps “sent” is the wrong word; let’s go with “pummeled,” as his ball traveled an absurd 439 yards:

Admittedly, Akron is the site of some of the longest belts of the season; the last time the tournament was conducted in the August humidity (it was moved last year due to Olympic scheduling), a third of the field averaged over 325 yards on the week.

Still, 439 yards? That’s a long piece of nectar, my friends.

 

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