Coloradan Monica Lieving, the 2023 women’s World Long Drive champ, scores her first WLD victory of 2024
By Gary Baines – 6/16/2024
Lakewood resident Monica Lieving on Saturday night scored the fourth World Long Drive Tour victory of her career and her first since claiming the 2023 WLD Championship in October.
The realtor, the top female in the WLD rankings, earned the win in the 12-competitor women’s division at the WLD Endless Summer event in Belleville, Ontario, Canada.
Lieving’s longest drive in the finals went 335 yards, eight more than her closest opponent.
Now in her second year competing in World Long Drive, Lieving’s victories have come in Mesquite, Nev., in March 2023, in Hobe Sound, Fla., in April 2023, the WLD Championship in October and in Canada on Saturday.
Lieving grew up in Geneseo in western Illinois, and played college golf at Arkansas State.
About the Writer: Gary Baines has covered golf in Colorado continuously since 1983. He was a sports writer at the Daily Camera newspaper in Boulder, then the sports editor there, and has written regularly for ColoradoGolf.org since 2009. The University of Colorado Evans Scholar alum was inducted into the Colorado Golf Hall of Fame in 2022. He owns and operates ColoradoGolfJournal.com