{"id":51249,"date":"2026-08-16T15:06:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T15:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/51249\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T15:06:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T15:06:06","slug":"yanhan-zhou-18-hits-514-yard-drive-during-dp-world-tour-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/51249\/","title":{"rendered":"Yanhan Zhou, 18, hits 514-yard drive during DP World Tour event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aug. 16, 2026, 9:39 a.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Yanhan Zhou did something hardly accomplished in the game of golf.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The 18-year-old professional hit a 514-yard tee shot Saturday during the third round of the DP World Tour&#8217;s Danish Golf Championship. The par-5 fifth hole at Great Northern is a downhill tee shot with a cart path along the right side of the hole. It measures 598 yards, but Zhou&#8217;s ball was hammered and then had some concrete assistance on its way to a monster mash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Perhaps the worst part of this incredible tee shot is there is no video of it. Only evidence on the DP World Tour&#8217;s website via shot tracing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Zhou got relief for his second shot and had to drop in the rough, hitting a stellar shot onto the green and two putting for par. He had only 104 yards left for his approach on the nearly 600-yard hole.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">He remains in contention as play winds down Sunday in Denmark.<\/p>\n<p>Explore how to live where you love to play <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (golf-re)|e|auto spike click:6|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\" href=\"http:\/\/golfweek.usatoday.com\/golflife\/real-estate\/\">Access community guides, golf real estate insights, trusted agent connections, and content built for passionate golfers.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">During the second round of the 2013 Ballantine&#8217;s Championship at Blackstone Golf Club in South Korea, Louis Oosthuizen hit a 500-yard drive on the opening hole. There have been other documented instances of 500+ yard drives, some by long drivers at high altitude and more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">But what Zhou did Saturday, in contention on one of the world&#8217;s biggest tours, is a remarkable achievement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><a href=\"http:\/\/golfweek.usatoday.com\/staff\/6040595002\/cameron-jourdan\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cameron Jourdan<\/a>\u00a0is an assistant editor of Golfweek, covering college and amateur golf, the PGA Tour and plenty more. Follow Cameron on X\/Twitter (@Cam_Jourdan) or Instagram (@GolfweekJourdan).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aug. 16, 2026, 9:39 a.m. ET Yanhan Zhou did something hardly accomplished in the game of golf. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51250,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[58,44,59,11594,11595,19782,1495,65,1340,68,80,193,67,62],"class_list":["post-51249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-accessfree","tag-golf","tag-sourcegolfweek","tag-sstssportsgolfdpworldtour","tag-sstsndpworldtour","tag-tagdenmark","tag-tagdp-world-tour","tag-taggolf","tag-taginstagram","tag-taginternational-sports-competitions","tag-tagoverall-neutral","tag-tagpga-tour","tag-tagsports-news","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}