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David Mobley, World Long Drive Champion – 2004 – Ranked #1 in the World by Long Drivers of America in 2003, 2004, and 2005 [9] Mike Austin, He was credited by Guinness World Records with hitting the longest drive in tournament play (471m/515 yards) in 1974; Sean Fister ("The Beast"), World Long Drive Champion 1995, 2001, 2005. [10] [11]
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]
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.
As for the pros: the longest hole on the PGA Tour is the 18th at Kapalua, measuring 677 yards, while the longest on the DP World Tour (formerly the European Tour) is the 16th at Green Eagle Golf ...
At the 2002 Mercedes Championships at the Plantation Course at the Kapalua Resort in Hawaii, Woods hit a 498-yard drive on the par-5 18th. That shot is the longest drive in the history of the PGA Tour recorded by ShotLink, the PGA Tour's data gathering information system. [11]
And what was described as a watershed moment in PGA Tour history now seems more like water under the bridge. Tiger Woods flew to Delaware to join Rory McIlroy and a small, elite group of players ...