Long Driver Sadlowski Retiring To...Play Pro Golf
/As much as I'd love to mention how the World Long Drive athletes and their form of higher, faster, stronger would fit in these Olympic Games in Rio, because it's a conversation to be tabled for another day.
However, Canada's Jamie Sadlowski is taking an unconventional path to pro golf: transitioning from elite (2-time) World Long Drive champion to Web.com Tour school. A.J. Voepel explains:
Sadlowski began competing in long drive events when he was 14 (he hit it 370 in his first qualifier). But there’s no questioning his overall game: he’s 3-for-4 in cuts made on the Web.com Tour, (the latest coming earlier this year and in 2015), and is also 1-for-2 in cuts made on the Mackenzie Tour- PGA TOUR Canada (his latest in 2013).
He explained on last night's Callaway Live: