Starting Off Right

Coloradan Monica Lieving notches career victory No. 5 in World Long Drive competitions

By Gary Baines – 4/14/2025

It seems fitting that a 2025 World Long Drive season that will culminate in Colorado with the World Championships in September began for women competitors over the weekend with a victory for a Colorado resident.

Monica Lieving, a real estate agent from Lakewood, started the season with a women’s division title at the Duel in the Desert Sunday in Mesquite, Nev. Her longest drive of the day was 353 yards.

It was career victory No. 5 in World Long Drive competition for Lieving, the top-ranked women’s WLD competitor, now in her third season on the WLD circuit. She won three times in 2023, including the World Championship, and once last year. Sunday marked the second time she’s produced a victory in a Mesquite-based competition.

Lieving grew up in Geneseo in western Illinois, and played college golf at Arkansas State.

Two World Long Drive competitions will be held this year in Colorado, both at Bigfoot Turf Farm in LaSalle, southeast of Greeley — the Rocky Mountain Rumble Aug. 15-17 and the World Championships Sept. 24-28.