David Micheluzzi sensationally set a new GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS™ title for the ‘Longest Golf Putt (Non-Tournament)’, beating the previous record by 15 feet / 5 yards.
The DP World Tour staged the Hero Challenge on the 7th hole of Yas Links in Abu Dhabi and tasked every player in the field with the near impossible task of holing a putt from a hitting area on the fairway, a remarkable distance of 139 yards (127.1 metres) away.
Filmed on Monday and Tuesday (4th / 5th November, 2024), ahead of the penultimate Rolex Series event of the season, the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship, over 65 players attempted the putt including the likes of Tommy Fleetwood, Min Woo Lee, Matt Wallace, Robert MacIntyre and Justin Rose.
After plenty of close attempts, towards the end of the day Australian David Micheluzzi stepped up and with just his second attempt, managed to hit a perfect shot, holing a snaking putt and sparking exuberant celebrations from both Micheluzzi and surrounding players.
Micheluzzi won the 2022–23 PGA TOUR of Australasia Order of Merit to earn his playing rights on the DP World Tour last season and recently the 28-year-old hit the opening tee shot of the 2025 DP World Tour season in his home country at the BMW Australian PGA Championship.
Micheluzzi joins a long line of DP World Tour stars to become GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS™ title holders. Team France (made up of Raphael Jacquelin, Alexander Levy, Romain Wattel and Gregory Havret) set a mark of 34.87 seconds on the fourth hole at Real Club Valderrama in 2016 as part of the DP World Tour’s first ever GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS™ Official Attempt for the ‘Fastest hole of golf by a team of four’. This was then bettered a year later by a four-man team from England (Ian Poulter, Tyrrell Hatton, Matthew Fitzpatrick and Matthew Southgate) in Turkey, who set a time of 32.70 seconds at night under floodlights.
In 2019, Thomas Detry set an astonishing new GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS™ title for the ‘Fastest hole of golf by an individual’, playing a Par 5 hole in just one minute 29.62 seconds at Real Club de Golf Guadalmina also in Spain. 2021 saw two new record titles with Marcus Armitage hitting the ball 277m / 303 yards down a runway in York, UK into the front passenger seat of a moving BMW M8 convertible to take the GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS title for the ‘Farthest golf shot caught in a moving car’, before Sean Crocker, Nicolai Højgaard, Min Woo Lee and Wilco Nienaber returned to Real Club Valderrama became the third team to hold the GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS title for the ‘*Fastest hole of golf by a team of four’*, beating the previous record by three seconds.
Just last week Jordan Smith managed to equal the GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS title for ‘The Most Golf Balls Caught in One-Minute’, with Brisbane Lions’ cricket star Josh Dunkley.
