{"id":1563870,"date":"2023-05-07T22:40:38","date_gmt":"2023-05-08T02:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/?p=1563870"},"modified":"2023-08-01T10:28:59","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T14:28:59","slug":"ranking-5-longest-drivers-pga-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/news\/ranking-5-longest-drivers-pga-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Ranking the 5 Longest Drivers on the PGA Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Bryson DeChambeau changed the <a href=\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/tag\/pga\/\">PGA<\/a> Tour as we know it when he became the longest driver in golf history. Now, everyone on Tour wants to drive it 320 yards and overpower golf courses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DeChambeau is no longer a member of the PGA Tour, but there are multiple players hitting their drives as far as he did in his prime. So, let's check out the longest drivers on the PGA Tour and rank them one through five. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-5-brandon-matthews\">5. Brandon Matthews<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Brandon Matthews drives green on 432-yard hole (plus reaction)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0bpOgpqJhhw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Unless you're a die-hard golf fan, this is probably the first you're hearing of Brandon Matthews. Well, all you need to know \u2014 for the sake of this list, anyway \u2014 is that he absolutely mashes the ball.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a rookie on the PGA Tour, Matthews ranks second in driving distance with an average of 321.0 yards. He also ranks second in club head speed with an average of 125.97 miles per hour. Matthews should arguably be higher on this list, but he's played in only 30 PGA Tour events in his young career. We'll have to see it for a longer period of time before bumping him up. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-4-wyndham-clark\">4. Wyndham Clark<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Wyndham Clark earns first victory | Round 4 | Wells Fargo | 2023\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0lmrfUKrJDI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Wyndham Clark picked up his first PGA Tour victory at the 2023 Wells Fargo Championship. The biggest reason he was able to pull it out in such a loaded field? His driver, of course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Clark currently ranks eighth in driving distance with an average of 313.9 yards. That might not sound overly impressive, but he ranked fourth last year (319.0) and sixth the year before that (314.6). Clark's been crushing the ball for a while now, and he deserves to crack the top five.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-3-cameron-young\">3. Cameron Young<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">26 torched drives for his 26th year.<br><br>Happy birthday, Cameron Young \ud83c\udf89 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/G5w8740hOc\">pic.twitter.com\/G5w8740hOc<\/a><\/p>&mdash; PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PGATOUR\/status\/1655196030089203712?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 7, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Here's where we get to the real mashers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cameron Young, in his rookie season last year, ranked third on Tour in driving distance (319.3) and second in strokes gained from off the tee. He currently ranks third in driving distance this season with an average of 317.1 yards. Third last season? Third this season? He's clearly third on the list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-2-cameron-champ\">2. Cameron Champ<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1250\" height=\"833\" src=\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Cameron-Champ.jpg?w=1024&amp;h=682&#038;strip=all&#038;quality=89\" alt=\"Cameron Champ hits a drive at the Mexico Open.\" class=\"wp-image-1563871\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Cameron Champ plays his shot from the third tee during the final round of the Mexico Open at Vidanta | Orlando Ramirez\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There's just something about Camerons on the PGA Tour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cameron Champ has been an elite driver of the golf ball for most of his career. The 27-year-old ranked first on Tour in driving distance in 2018-19 (317.9), second in 2019-20 (322.0), third in 2020-21 (317.1), and first in 2021-22 (321.4). He's also ranked No. 1 in club head speed in four of the last five seasons. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Champ currently ranks fourth in driving distance this season, but his impressive consistency over the last five years gives him the No. 2 spot here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-1-rory-mcilroy\">1. Rory McIlroy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Rory McIlroy drives but they get increasingly longer\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/piuPCisIapc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>No surprises here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rory McIlroy is the best driver of the golf ball on the planet. He can work it both ways off the tee, change trajectories whenever he wants, and crush it past everyone in his group every time he tees it up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>McIlroy is the longest driver on Tour this season with a jaw-dropping average of 325.8 yards. That would be the longest single-season average in PGA Tour history. The Northern Irishman hasn't ranked worse than fourth in driving distance in the last six years. If he finishes the 2022-23 season with the longest average on Tour, it'll be the third time in the last seven years he's done so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>McIlroy is still the man to beat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Bryson DeChambeau now playing for LIV Golf, who are the biggest bombers on the PGA Tour?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":149,"featured_media":1563871,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[95787],"tags":[87013,13907],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.3 (Yoast SEO v22.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ranking the 5 Longest Drivers on the PGA Tour - Sports7<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Check out the five PGA Tour bombers who hit it the farthest off the tee and how much distance they average with the driver.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/news\/ranking-5-longest-drivers-pga-tour\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ranking the 5 Longest Drivers on the PGA Tour\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Check out the five PGA Tour bombers who hit it the farthest off the tee and how much distance they average with the driver.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/news\/ranking-5-longest-drivers-pga-tour\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Sports7\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-05-08T02:40:38+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-08-01T14:28:59+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Cameron-Champ.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1250\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"833\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Jack Dougherty\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@jackdoc13\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Jack Dougherty\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/news\/ranking-5-longest-drivers-pga-tour\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/news\/ranking-5-longest-drivers-pga-tour\/\",\"name\":\"Ranking the 5 Longest Drivers on the PGA Tour - 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