Kyle Berkshire makes HUGE CLAIM about future of PGA Tour and LIV Golf players
Two-time World Long Drive champion Kyle Berkshire talks exclusively to GolfMagic at the PGA Show in Orlando.
Two-time World Long Drive champion Kyle Berkshire believes in 10 years time that one of the "absolute must-haves" if you want to become one of the best players on the PGA Tour and LIV Golf will be to possess a 120mph clubhead speed.
Berkshire, 26, spoke exclusively to GolfMagic Equipment Editor Alex Lodge on the World Long Drive stand at the PGA Show in Orlando, Florida, last week.
The giant American won his first World Long Drive Championship in 2019 with an effort of 406 yards, before winning it again in 2021 (the first full season under its new title, the Professional Long Drivers Association) with a healthy crack of 422 yards.
He also won the PLDA National Championship in 2020 with a drive of 383 yards, which was the first under the new sanctioning body during the Covid pandemic.
Berkshire, who is close friends with LIV Golf's Bryson DeChambeau (who finished second to Martin Borgmeier in 2022), has achieved a career-best long drive in competition of 474 yards.
Just two months ago, Berkshire even set a new ball speed record of 236.2 mph, the highest ever total recorded on a TrackMan simulator.
While Berkshire spoke to us about his career in World Long Drive, working with his sponsor Cobra Golf and overcoming injuries, it was his comments about what the world's best players will soon need to achieve on Tour with both their ball speed and clubhead speed that raised eyebrows the most.
Berkshire told GolfMagic:
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Stay tuned for our next interview with current World Long Drive champion Martin Borgmeier, as well as our best bits video from the PGA Show in Orlando.
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