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Michael Hoke Austin (February 17, 1910 – November 23, 2005) was an American golf professional and kinesiology expert, specializing in long drives. [1] [2]He was credited by Guinness World Records with hitting the longest drive in tournament play (471 m/515 yd) in 1974 at Winterwood Golf Course (now called Desert Rose Golf Course) in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The 1-wood, or driver, is the lowest-lofted, [3] longest, and often lightest club in a player's bag, and is meant to launch the ball the longest distance of any club. . Originally, the driver was only slightly larger than any other wood and was designed to be used from the tee or the fairway, but with the advent of hollow metal clubhead construction, the driver has become highly specialized ...
[1] [2] [3] The 1995 Masters marked the first major championship for Tiger Woods, who qualified as the 1994 U.S. Amateur champion. [4] A 19-year-old college freshman at Stanford, he tied for 41st place and was the leading amateur, the only one to make the cut. [5] [6] Woods' average driving distance was the longest in the tournament. [7]
Woods goes 3 -wood on the 419 yard par-4 16th hole, and lands on the right side of the fairway about 150 yards from the green. Woods lands his iron shot pin high 12 feet from the hole with a ...
The world record recognized by Guinness World Records as the longest drive in a competition is 515 yards (471 m) by 64-year-old Mike Austin in 1974 at the US Senior National Open Qualifier with a 43.5" steel shafted persimmon wood driver. [5] The record distance achieved in the European Long Drive Championship is 473 yards (433 m) by Allen ...
As of 2011, Watson had the longest average drive in professional golf, with an average drive of 315.2 yards, [1] capable of generating a ball speed of 194 mph and drives of up to 370 yards. [3] On the 2019 PGA Tour, the average driving distance was 293.8 yards, a 2.3 yard drop attributed to weather conditions. [4]
Dec 17, 2023; Orlando, Florida, USA; Charlie Woods (left) and Tiger Woods (right) pose for a family photo with Sam Woods on the first tee during the PNC Championship at The Ritz-Carlton Golf Club.
Golf legend Tiger Woods shared a heartwarming moment with his son Charlie Woods after the teenager hit a shot of a lifetime. During Sunday’s final round of the PNC Championship in Orlando ...