Mike Austin, 95; Set World Record for Longest Golf Drive: 515 Yards

Sunday, November 27, 2005
By Chuck Evans

Mike Austin, 95; Set World Record for Longest Golf Drive: 515 Yards – Los Angeles Times

Mike Austin, the world record holder for longest drive in a professional golf tournament, died Tuesday of natural causes at the Motion Picture & Television Hospital in Woodland Hills. He was 95.

Austin is best known for a 515-yard drive made during a 1974 U.S. National Seniors Open championship in Las Vegas, when he was 64. He used a steel-shafted persimmon wood driver and a balata-covered ball and had a 27-mph tail wind. The drive is recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records…read more

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