Nick Piastowski
David Micheluzzi on Friday on the Australian Open.
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Our headline, by far, tells this text’s greatest story. WATCH: DP World Tour professional makes 139-yard putt, breaks world report. Effectively carried out, David Micheluzzi! That’s unbelievable!
However let’s additionally attempt to maintain you round for a minute. In case you look shut sufficient on the footage launched Friday by the DP World Tour, and skim a bit in regards to the try, there are different delectable gadgets, similar to:
— Micheluzzi, a 28-year-old professional from Australia, wasn’t alone in making an attempt. Robert MacIntyre gave it a go — and one in all his makes an attempt hit a sprinkler head. Matt Wallace hit a ball already on the inexperienced. Joost Luiten, Dylan Frittelli and Yannik Paul missed by about 3 ft. Thriston Lawrence and Sean Crocker missed by about 2. Romain Langasque missed by about 18 inches. Dan Bradbury missed by a couple of foot — after saying he shanked an earlier try.
— Sure, it was staged; no, it didn’t are available in precise match play. The putt was recorded on the seventh gap at Yas Hyperlinks in Abu Dhabi, forward of the DP World Tour’s Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship earlier this month, at a spot purposefully picked to higher the earlier Guinness World Data mark of “longest golf putt (non-tournament).” That being stated, the putt offers at the very least some assist to the thought that for those who can putt a ball, putt a ball. Depart the wedge within the bag — or on this case, a brief iron. The Yas Hyperlinks fairways seemingly should have been pure.
— So why the heck did the DP World Tour do that? So far as we are able to inform, that may be answered with one other query: Why the heck not? It’s enjoyable. It’s content material. The tour’s additionally tried to interrupt Guinness data earlier than. Based on their web site, DP World Tour gamers have set the usual for “quickest gap of golf by a workforce of 4” (24.75 seconds by Crocker, Nicolai Hojgaard, Min Woo Lee and Wilco Nienaber); “quickest gap of golf by a person” (1 minute, 29.62 seconds by Thomas Detry); and “farthest golf shot caught in a transferring automotive” (303 yards by Marcus Armitage).
However sure, the 139-yard made putt remains to be the star right here — although there’s at the very least one one who can declare to have made an extended one.
Micheluzzi’s effort got here on his second try, the DP World Tour stated. On the record-breaker, he took his putter again to waist degree and hit — and after about 2 seconds, he preferred it. “That’s it,” he stated. “That’s getting there.” His ball averted the beforehand talked about sprinkler head. It missed one other ball. On the inexperienced, it began left of the left gap, labored its means proper, then broke left on the finish and located the center of the cup. Based mostly on footage, the ball rolled for 20 seconds — and Micheluzzi had his putter raised after 11. You may watch the full video beneath, and beneath which are a number of angles of the report putt.
Celebration adopted the make. Micheluzzi began operating down the golf green. He kicked his ft collectively. He did a cartwheel. He threw his putter. Ultimately, Micheluzzi plucked his ball from the outlet. He’d damaged the earlier mark of 401 ft, 2 inches, set final 12 months by Jay Stocki, a semi-retired promoting government, on the Baths, the par-3 course at Blackwolf Run in Wisconsin.
However was Micheluzzi’s putt the longest-ever non-tournament putt?
By the Guinness e-book, sure. After all, perhaps you or your mates have dropped one. Or perhaps you noticed Wesley Bryan make a 144-yarder earlier this 12 months (and for those who haven’t, you possibly can watch it right here). The video of it lasted nearly 20 seconds, and the putt itself took 14 seconds to go from the golf green to the outlet. Bryan took almost a full swing along with his putter, the ball rolled about 25 ft left to proper, it dipped simply earlier than the inexperienced, it tracked towards the outlet — then it fell and the celebration began. Shouts. A chest-bump.
However within the replies to the posting of the video, it was famous that the Guinness of us weren’t contacted. (The method to confirm a report may be discovered right here.) Nonetheless, Bryan did make it and that’s, effectively, one thing.
We’ll wrap issues up right here with a number of hyperlinks.
Please click on right here to learn in regards to the earlier Guinness world report for “longest golf putt (non-tournament).” Or please click on right here to look at it.
Please click on right here to learn in regards to the Guinness world report for “longest golf putt in a significant match.” The putt was 110 ft. 2 inches, and it was made by Nick Value on the 1992 PGA Championship. (The web site additionally lists a putt made by Jack Nicklaus on the 1964 Match of Champions right here.)
Please click on right here to learn in regards to the Guinness world report for “longest profitable putt on the PGA Tour.” The putt was 111 ft. 5 inches, and it was made by Craig Barlow on Jan. 27, 2008, on the Buick Open.
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Nick Piastowski
Golf.com Editor
Nick Piastowski is a Senior Editor at Golf.com and Golf Journal. In his position, he’s liable for enhancing, writing and creating tales throughout the golf area. And when he’s not writing about methods to hit the golf ball farther and straighter, the Milwaukee native might be taking part in the sport, hitting the ball left, proper and brief, and ingesting a chilly beer to clean away his rating. You may attain out to him about any of those matters — his tales, his recreation or his beers — at nick.piastowski@golf.com.
