The world's longest golf club is ridiculous
The longest club in your golf bag, your driver, is probably about 45 inches long. Try swinging one that's 173 inches long!
Karsten Maas, a 49-year-old Dane, is in this year's Guinness World Records as owner of the world's longest usable golf club. The driver he wields is 14 feet, 5 inches long, and he has hit it as long as 180 yards. The momentum created on the downswing forces Maas to swing the club around his body three full times.
Strangely enough, this record has turned into a bit of an arms race in recent years. Maas set the record using a 13-foot, 5-inch driver in 2009, hitting the ball 135 yards. Three years later, Texan Michael Furrh used a 14-foot, 2.5-inch driver to launch a ball 146 yards. Just a year later, Furrh reclaimed the title and has hung onto it ever since.
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