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By his own high standards, Max Homa didn’t have the best of seasons on the PGA Tour.
The 33-year-old American made 20 starts on the US-based circuit this year, clocking up only three top-tens and finishing 46th on the FedEx Cup standings.
A call-up to the United States’ Presidents Cup team provides him with the opportunity to end the year on a bit of a high but, in an individual sense, he probably won’t be looking back on 2024 too fondly.
He did, though, do something rather special.
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During the third round of the season-opening The Sentry in January, Homa launched a drive on the seventh hole an eye-popping 477 yards.
It was, unsurprisingly, the longest drive recorded on the PGA Tour this year – and, indeed, any year dating back to 2002.
Homa’s effort was seven yards longer than his nearest challenger on the ‘long drive’ front, Cameron Young, and was one of 88 drives of 400 or more yards measured on the tour in 2024.
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The Sentry, staged on the Plantation Course at Kapalua, was responsible for the seven longest efforts and 11 of the 12 longest in 2024.
Here’s a breakdown of the longest recorded drives each year on the PGA Tour over the last decade…
Longest drives on the PGA Tour by year (since 2015)
2015
Bernd Wiesberger
WGC-Bridgestone Invitational
Round 4, hole 16
428 yards
2016
Justin Thomas
WGC-Bridgestone Invitational
Round 2, hole 16
414 yards
2017
Dustin Johnson
WGC-Bridgestone Invitational
Round 1, hole 16
439 yards
2018
Michael Block
US Open
Round 1, hole 3
433 yards
2019
Justin Thomas
WGC-Mexico
Round 3, hole 10
457 yards
2020
Justin Thomas
WGC-Mexico
Round 4, hole 2
449 yards
2021
Lee Westwood
Byron Nelson
Round 3, hole 8
425 yards
2022
Scott Stallings
WM Phoenix Open
Round 2, hole 15
460 yards
2023
Luke List
The Sentry
Round 3, hole 7
459 yards
2024
Max Homa
The Sentry
Round 3, hole 7
477 yards
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