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Seniors World Long Drive Champion 2015. Sandra Carlborg, Ladies Division WR holder 391, Yards World Long Drive Champion 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015,2017 [13] [14] Phillis Meti 2006, 2016 2018 2022 & 2024 Women's World Long Drive Champion. WR for women's longest drive 413 yards and being the youngest female World Champion 19 years, 2 months.
Players from the PGA Tour often participated in some of the early long drive championships, with veteran Tour player Lon Hinkle winning the event in 1981. Of note was the creativity of 1984 champion Larry "Wedgy" Winchester who used an unconventionally long 60-inch club to register a winning drive of 319 yards and finish ahead of touring pros ...
On the 2019 PGA Tour, the average driving distance was 293.8 yards, a 2.3 yard drop attributed to weather conditions. [4] Mike Austin holds the world record for the longest drive in professional play, driving 515 yards at the Winterwood Golf Course in Las Vegas, Nevada, in 1974, blasting it 65 yards past the flag on the par-4 fifth. [5]
He hit a 427-yard drive at a Professional Golfers Association clinic, and his longest recorded drive ever was 547 yards at the Lakeside Golf Course in Ponca City. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] He could hit a ball up to 300 yards out of a tee box with a 4 wood , 257 yards with a 7 iron , and once hit a 361-yard drive while on his knees. [ 2 ]
On Friday at the WGC- Dell Technologies Match Play Tournament, he lived up to his reputation for crushing drives by launching a missile on the par-5 12th hole that traveled further than any drive ...
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 longest hole in the United States, by a single yard, this par 6 will test the nerves, and the distance, of even seasoned golf pros. 4. Meadows Farms Golf Course, Virginia, USA, 12th hole, 841 ...
Mike Dobbyn is an American professional long-drive golfer who holds the world record for the farthest drive in history: a recorded drive at 551 yards. [1] In regular professional golf, the hardest hitters average just over 300 yards. [2] However, although his longest drive is 551 yards, most of his drives range between 350 and 450 yards.