Bigfoot Turf Farm southeast of Greeley will host not only World Long Drive Championships, but a second WLD event in 2025
By Gary Baines – 11/29/2024
For a town with a population of less than 3,000, LaSalle, Colorado will certainly be the center of attention in 2025 for a well-known golf niche competition.
As previously reported here, the 2025 World Long Drive Championships — the most prominent event in the long-drive universe — will be coming to Colorado as Bigfoot Turf Farm in LaSalle will host the competition Sept. 24-28.
As it turns out, that’s not the only 2025 event on the World Long Drive schedule that will be held at Bigfoot Turf Farm. The folks at WLD have been gradually announcing the 2025 schedule this fall, and they recently disclosed a second World Long Drive competition for the site just off County Road 49.
The “Rocky Mountain Rumble” is set for the Weld County location — situated southeast of Greeley — from Aug. 15-17. In other words, over the course of six weeks, two World Long Drive events will tee it up in LaSalle. And considering there are only nine WLD competitions planned in 2025 — with two sites yet to be announced — Colorado accounts for more than 20 percent of them, including the grandaddy of long-drive events. Also hosting two WLD events in 2025 — both in the fall — will be Mesquite, Nev. For a list of all the World Long Drive competitions announced so far for 2025, CLICK HERE.
Both the Colorado-based WLD events will feature both men’s and women’s competitions. The 2023 women’s World Long Drive Championship winner lives in Colorado — Monica Lieving of Lakewood.
Bigfoot Turf Farm is certainly no stranger to hosting World Long Drive competitions as it’s done so annually since 2021. And the former Park Hill Golf Course in Denver had an event in 2017. But 2025 will be the first year two are on the agenda for Colorado.
LaSalle is located at an elevation around 4,600 feet, meaning the relatively thin air could produce some drives exceeding 450 yards — and perhaps even approaching 500. In June at the LaSalle competition, Kyle Berkshire hit a drive 453 yards, and Mai Dechathipat won the women’s division with a 380-yarder.
The LaSalle WLD competitions will mark two of the last three events on the 2025 schedule.
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