World Long Drive has announced a new partnership with Pinnacle, designating the brand as the official golf ball partner of World Long Drive tour events for the 2025 season.
In addition to providing Pinnacle Distance as the official golf ball for WLD events, the collaboration will see the birth of the Pinnacle Series and the introduction of long drive professionals serving as Pinnacle ambassadors.
Pinnacle Distance will be available in golf shops beginning March 15.
Pinnacle will serve as the presenting sponsor for three WLD tour events and the official sponsor of a fourth event in 2025. It owns the presenting naming rights to the first event of the 2025 season, Clash in the Canyon, to be contested in Mesquite, Nevada from March 21-23, as well as the Bluff City Shootout in Memphis, Tennessee, and the Rocky Mountain Rumble in LaSalle, Colorado.
In addition, Pinnacle will be the official sponsor for The Fight at the Fort at Fort Jackson in Columbia, South Carolina. The Mesquite event in March will be the first time the Pinnacle Distance ball is used in competition.
The 2024 World Long Drive World Champion Sean Johnson and World No.4 Jack Smith will serve as official Pinnacle Ambassadors for the 2025 season. Johnson and Smith will play a vital part in promoting and showcasing the incredible distance, durability, and ball-to-ball consistency of the Pinnacle Distance.
“I’ll be straightforward, I am very excited to be using the Pinnacle golf ball again,” said Johnson. “The first ball I ever played with was the Pinnacle Gold when I was 12 years old, and I appreciate the opportunity to represent the brand as I continue my long drive journey. The brand is synonymous with distance and I look forward to hitting the Pinnacle Distance in competition.”
“I’m dedicated to becoming the best long driver I can be and I know Pinnacle can help get me there,” said Smith. “I’ve watched old footage of many of the past world long drive champions – including (five-time World Long Drive champion) Jason Zuback – who were associated with the brand and now I get the opportunity to do the same. I’ve had the chance to test this product and ‘Don’t Think, Just Rip’ is the perfect tagline for this ball and this brand. I know how it is going to react when I hit it properly so that takes one element out of my process.”
“We are excited to partner with Pinnacle and its parent company, Acushnet Company, as the official golf ball for World Long Drive tour events in 2025,” said World Long Drive Chief Commercial Officer David Livingston. “Pinnacle’s commitment to engineering a golf ball that delivers maximum distance and consistency will elevate our sport by allowing our athletes to showcase the most impressive drives in golf.”
“Pinnacle’s origin story is distance, and it will be fun to see that on the World Long Drive stage. Competitors will certainly notice the distance, but it is the quality, consistency and durability that will stand out – long drive after long drive,” added Jeremy Stone, Senior VP, Golf Ball Marketing and US Sales at Acushnet.
The 2025 World Long Drive season features nine events beginning next week in Mesquite, Nevada, and culminates with the World Championship from September 24-28 at Bigfoot Turf Farm in La Salle, Colorado.