Think some of these real long were freak drives or with the wind at their back. Mickelson is not one of the youngest guys but he has been getting longer on his drives. He is pretty close to the longest guys who are Dustin Johnson, Quiros and Bubba. Phil can pretty copnsistently hit hos drives about 320 to as much as 340 yards.
The guys on golfwrx joke how he can hit a 3 or 4 iron about 250 yards.
The technology keeps improving where they are tuning everything with the carbon fiber shafts and the driver heads.
When pros play, the 400-yard drive is now part of the golf lexicon. And we’re not just talking long-drive competitors, although four-time world champion Jason Zuback recently launched a 425-yard bomb. We mean the guys who have to play their foul balls, too. At The International last year, Hank Kuehne played the longest hole on the PGA Tour, the 644-yard par-5 first at Castle Pines, with a 465-yard drive and a 180-yard 9-iron. During a tour de force at Kapalua in January, Ernie Els, who led the tour in driving distance with a 320-yard average through March, provided the symbolic start to a new era by wowing a prime-time East Coast audience with effortless blasts—one rolling out to 398 yards. Two weeks later in Phoenix (where, by the way, the entire field averaged better than 300 yards), Phil Mickelson drove a 403-yard par 4. Victor Schwamkrug, whose 329-yard average made him Big Dog among the 15 players who averaged more than 300 yards on the Buy.com (now Nationwide) Tour last year, says in his calm Texas drawl, “If a hole is right around 400 yards and sets up so I can go ahead and hit it, well, I’m going to get to it. I’m not the only one out here like that.”
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