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Long drive champion’s drive carries over 520 yards (video)

The simulator hole was over 450 yards.

The simulator 30-row-deep, gray bleachers were about 25 yards behind the hole.

The simulator ball was about 75 yards behind the bleachers.




A 555-yard simulator drive.

Five. Hundred. And. Fifty. Five. Yards.

“Oh my God,” Joe Miller said as the ball began to fall.

Oh my, Joe Miller.

In a video he recently shared on his social media accounts, the 2010 and 2016 long drive champion long-drove the simulated 18th hole at Wentworth Golf Club in England, site of the European Tour’s BMW PGA Championship. Or long-drove over it. He uncorked the drive into the simulator. It went over the trees on the right.

“There we go, mate,” a man in the background said. “There we go.”

The ball, marked by a yellow line, carried the trees. It carried the green. It carried the bleachers.

It carried 528 yards.




“Five-hundred-and-twenty-eight,” the man in the background yelled.

It rolled another 27 yards.

“Five-hundred-and-fifty-five,” the man in the background yelled.

Long. But not his longest. Miller’s website says his longest drive in a competition is 474 yards. And 560 out of competition.

“Easy par from there,” Miller said as the video ended.

One problem.

“Problem is you have just hit a kid waiting for an autograph and a photo,” European Tour pro Andrew “Beef” Johnston joked in response to seeing where the ball landed.

You can watch the video below:






Article originally appeared on: Golf.com

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