RE/MAX values community involvement at all levels of the organization, from individual Associates to corporate headquarters. The best known event sponsored by RE/MAX is The RE/MAX World Long Drive Championships. The RE/MAX World Long Drive Championships is an annual golfing event, which has been held in the USA and Canada for the past 15 years. The championship was successfully brought to South Africa for the first time in 1998 by RE/MAX of Southern Africa in association with Dale Hayes Golf Events. This is an exciting event for spectators in South Africa, and all over the world, who watch golfers using shafts of over 50 inches to launch Pinnacle balls over 375 metres down the grid at clubhead speeds reaching 240kph (the PGA Tour average is around 180kph