The first round of the BMW Championship has been and gone, and Ludvig Aberg produced something pretty special on the back nine at Castle Pines Golf Club.
Aberg is currently seventh in the FedEx Cup standings and will attend next week’s Tour Championship in East Lake.
The Swede carded a level-par 72 during Thursday’s play in Denver on what is the longest course in PGA Tour history.
And the highlight of Aberg’s first round came on the tenth hole, which is a 535-yard par-four.
Ludvig Aberg’s three-wood at the BMW Championship leaves golf fans stunned
After opting to take three-wood off the tee, Aberg went on to smash a 418-yard tee shot, leaving himself a relatively simple shot into the green.
Amazingly, he would go on to make a double bogey. But, despite his woes, golf fans were blown away by his mammoth tee shot.
“I realize it’s downhill at a high altitude. Still … a 418-yard three-wood is absurd,” this fan wrote on X.
Another added: “Time to move to Colorado.”
This fan couldn’t believe what he had seen. They wrote: “I’m sorry.?? A 418-YARD DRIVE WITH A 3-WOOD?!”
“Hahahaha, good lord, man,” said another. A fellow fan added, “This was impressive. My group. Front row seat.”
Finally, this fan said, “Pro golf is wild having 118 left on a par4 after a 418-yard tee shot, lol.”
The PGA Tour had no choice but to make history this week
Given the altitude, the world’s best players will see their stock yardages increase by around 12% this week.
Justin Thomas claimed recalibrating yardages is the biggest challenge and that the actual length of Castle Pines is perhaps misleading.
Considering how far the likes of Aberg and Rory McIlroy hit the ball, the PGA Tour had no option but to extend the course well over 8000 yards.
If Castle Pines were 300 or 400 yards shorter, the world’s best players would be driving most of the par-fours and reaching all the par-fives with ease.
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