Kyle Berkshire does some pretty amazing things to the golf ball. The two-time World Long Drive champ routinely tops clubhead speeds of 150 mph and recently surpassed 233 mph of ball speed. Those numbers have made him the undisputed king of the World Long Drive scene.
But Kyle is also an avid golfer in his own right. One who was once ranked fourth in the state of Maryland as a junior golfer then went on to play college golf — and has eyes on trying to make pro starts in the future, too.
At the recent GOLF Magazine Top 100 Teachers Summit (which you can watch here) Berkshire spoke about some of the challenges he needs to navigate when he’s on the course imparting so much speed onto the ball. Mainly: he needs to learn to control the mind-boggling amount of spin he puts on the golf ball.
But when he does that, Berkshire enjoys the best of both worlds: Hitting his irons longer than you could ever dream of. In a recent Instagram post, he shared his through the bag numbers for each of his clubs. They’re pretty astonishing.
Club
Yards
62 degree
100-110
58 degree
120-130
54 degree
130-140
PW
150-165
9-iron
170-185
8-iron
190-205
7-iron
205-220
6-iron
220-235
5-iron
235-250
4-iron
250-265
3-iron
265-280
2-iron
280-295
1-iron
300-315
“Play” driver
360-380
“Long” driver
380-400
So the next time you’re 200 yards out and wondering if a 4-iron can get there, just remember that Kyle Berkshire is hitting a smooth 8-iron from that distance.
Luke Kerr-Dineen is the Game Improvement Editor at GOLF Magazine and GOLF.com. In his role he oversees the brand’s game improvement content spanning instruction, equipment, health and fitness, across all of GOLF’s multimedia platforms.
An alumni of the International Junior Golf Academy and the University of South Carolina–Beaufort golf team, where he helped them to No. 1 in the national NAIA rankings, Luke moved to New York in 2012 to pursue his Masters degree in Journalism from Columbia University. His work has also appeared in USA Today, Golf Digest, Newsweek and The Daily Beast.
