Long Drive champ tees up world record a empt at London Golf Club

London Golf Club welcomed World Long Drive champion Martin Borgmeier down to the Kent venue last month as the bighitting German took on a Guinness World Records title attempt.

Borgmeier, who hit a 426-yard drive in the nal of the 2022 PLDA World Championship in Nevada to beat major winner Bryson DeChambeau, visited the 36-hole Kent venue to take on the challenge of hitting the most drives in excess of 300 yards within an hour-long period.

Organised by the DP World Tour, London Golf Club was selected in its role as a European Tour Destination venue and its driving range facility, which measures well over the 300 yards required for the record attempt.

Ahead of lming, the driving range was transformed overnight by the London Golf Club greenkeeping team and the DP World Tour team as branding boards were set up, ball-clearing took place and a 300-yard line mark was added at the end of the range.

Guinness World Records o cial adjudicators were also present as Borgmeier attempted to hit more than 459 drives past the 300-yard mark within the allotted time using Callaway Golf’s new Paradym driver. Despite a heroic e ort, the German narrowly failed in his attempt, managing to hit 401 balls over the 300-yard mark from an impressive 630 hits – which meant he was averaging 10 drives a minute for the whole hour.

Speaking after his Herculean e ort, Borgmeier said: “Of course, it was hugely disappointing not to break the record, but having managed to hit 630 balls in an hour, I’m pretty con dent that given the right weather conditions – we were hitting into a slight headwind – I can get there one day. I’m going to keeping trying until I break it.”

Stephen Follett, London Golf Club’s chief executive, said: “We were delighted to welcome the World Long Drive Champion Martin Borgmeier, the DP World Tour content team and adjudicators from the Guinness World Records to the London Golf Club for the record attempt. Holding events like this is a great opportunity for us to showcase the incredible golf o ering and facilities here at the London Golf Club. We’d like to thank the DP World Tour for choosing us for this shoot. The video is great, so if you haven’t already done so then make sure you head over to their YouTube channel to give it a watch.”

Polly Benson, producer for the DP World Tour, said: “We came here to speak to London Golf Club to see if they were happy to have us. Obviously, they are a European Tour Destination and as a club they have been so welcoming to us. The driving range itself is spectacular and quite unusual in terms of its size – from a challenge perspective it t all those speci cations. London Golf Club has opened its doors to us and frankly we could not have asked for more – they really looked after us and Martin.”

A video of the challenge is available to view on the DP World Tour’s YouTube channel.