Who holds the record for distance of a golf ball hit?

Answer 1

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Mike Austin, whose 515-yard drive in 1974 stands as the longest ever in a professional golf tournament, died Tuesday, his wife Tanya said. He was 95.
Austin was 64 years old when he hit the soaring drive in the U.S. National Seniors Open Championship in Las Vegas. With help from a 27-mph tail wind, the ball ran well clear of the green 450 yards away.
The record has held up for more than two decades despite advances in ball and driver technology. Austin used a standard persimmon wood club with a steel shaft.
Second on the list is a 476-yard drive hit in 2004 by Davis Love III.
Austin was born in 1910 on Guernsey, one of Britain's Channel Islands, and moved to Los Angeles in 1939. He had a brief career as a professional golfer, but never had the short game to match his distance off the tee.
He became one of the area's best-known golf teachers, voted Southern California Golf Professional of the Year in 1984 and named among the top 50 golf instructors in the United States in 1991.
Austin was left partially paralyzed by a stroke in 1989, but continued to give lessons until about two weeks before his death, his wife said.
Constance Cummings

Answer 2

"Distances in excess of 350 yards are commonplace at LDE events with a stunning effort of more than 415 yards winning one of the European Long Driving Championship rounds of 2004.

These distances are carry and roll. The longest recorded carry is 458 yards - so some spectacular driving is guaranteed.

Indeed, it is hoped the unofficial record for a roll might also be toppled.

Jay Tyson, project manager for the London Golf Show, said: The official Guinness World Record has to take place on a golf course at sea-level. There have been various attempts on runways in the past the current record for this, of 696 yards, was set by Stuart Appleby in Melbourne just last month."

Answer 3

I heard it was something like 475 yards but I heard that some other guy hit the ball 600 + on an airport runway

Answer 4

Jason Zubach holds the world record for the longest recorded drive.

Answer 5

I think it was 520 yards a few yrs back.quite a poke I may ad.The driver was about 12 or 14 inches longer to acheive the head speed to poke it so far.I dont know the name of the guy anymore ,but hey what a poke eh?

Answer 6

Amarillo Slim........a gambler who bet another gambler he could hit a golfball over a mile on level ground. Teed it up in Chicago in middle of winter and hit it onto frozen lake.....ball traveled quite a bit farther than a mile.

Answer 7

NEIL ARMSTRONG HIT A BALL ON THE MOON IN 1969... NO DISTANCE RECORDED BUT IT HAD TO BE MILES...

Answer 8

pga tour, houston open, 2004, victor schwamburg, 429 yards