Sports Media Report
The world’s top-ranked long driver put only one ball on the grid in the final round of WLD Rocky Mountains, but Kyle Berkshire‘s 450-yard drive on his second-to-last ball of the event was enough to earn the win at Bigfoot Turf Farms in LaSalle, Colorado, on Sunday.
Berskhire, the reigning Open Division world champion, beat World No. 8 Jack Smith 450 yards to 435 yards in the final. For the weekend, Berkshire averaged 432 yards per drive on the grid and finished with a personal best of 453 yards.
In the Women’s Division, Mai Dechathipat outlasted Denver resident, and defending world champion, Monica Lieving 380 yards to 363 yards in the final to capture her second win in the last two years. Ranked No. 12 in the world entering the event, Dechathipat hit the longest drive of the event for the division at 387 yards.
Former world champion Mike Dobbyn captured the Senior Division title with a 380-yard blast to beat Jeff Gavin by six yards in the final. The win was Dobbyn’s first career Senior Division title. The longest ball of the event for the 2007 world champion was the 380-yard drive in the final.
Zack Duggan is the winner of the Amateur Division presented by Speed Toad. Duggan, who entered the weekend ranked as the No. 8 amateur in the world, beat Evan Brewbaker 376 yards to 372 yards in the final. Duggan’s longest drive of the came during prelims when he hit a ball 391 yards. He was the most accurate hitter of the entire Amateur Division, hitting 20 of 30 drives on the grid in prelims, then put 15 of 24 balls in play from the Round of 16 through the final.
