LDA has assembled a sparkling field for its first professional long drive event of 2010. Big hitters signed up for LDA’s Desert Launch on March 28 include three of the top eight hitters at last year’s RE/MAX World Long Drive Championship finals: Mick Yelovich, Zac Adams and Jeff Gavin. Yelovich and Adams made the semifinals [...]
One of the intriguing names among open division competitors in LDA’s upcoming Desert Duel is Kari Hyokki, the Big Finn. Hyokki, 6-6/230, will be making a 5,000-plus mile trek to Mesquite from his home in Uppsala, Sweden, where he works as a certified physical trainer and massage therapist. Hyokki, 33, is no stranger to America, having [...]
Two of the best long drivers in Europe, or for that matter anywhere on the planet, are a couple of lads from London — Adam Stacey and Joe Miller. Both burst on the international long drive scene in 2005. In the process of winning the Long Drivers of Europe championship, Miller set a European record [...]
