2025 World Long Drive Championships will be held in September in LaSalle, southeast of Greeley
By Gary Baines – 11/1/2024
Colorado is home to the 2023 women’s World Long Drive Championship winner, and the Centennial State has hosted WLD regular-season events in recent years.
And now Colorado will be the site of the 2025 edition of the grandaddy of all the long-drive events — the WLD World Championships.
Bigfoot Turf Farm in LaSalle, located southeast of Greeley, will do the honors Sept. 24-28 next year, officials at World Long Drive announced on Friday. The location has hosted WLD regular-season events in recent years — WLD Rocky Mountains — and given that it’s located at about 4,600 feet elevation, there will be some extremely long drives hit in the thin air.
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.
“We are excited to announce the location of the 2025 WLD World Championships,” WLD said on its website. “LaSalle, Colorado will be home to some of the biggest drives in long-drive history. We know this will make for one of the most exciting World Championships yet.”
Monica Lieving, a realtor who resides in Lakewood, won the women’s WLD World Championship in 2023 in Atlanta and continues to be one of the best female competitors in such competitions. She claimed a title at a WLD event in Canada in June.
The WLD World Championships have been held in Atlanta in 2023 and ’24, and were televised this year on the Golf Channel and ESPN.
The World Championships will culminate the 2025 WLD season and will feature men’s and women’s competitions. In various iterations over the years, the World Long Drive Championships date back to 1974.
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