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| 1096.1 | longest drive | DSTEG2::SOUZA | I'd rather be driving a Titleist | Wed Oct 10 1990 11:10 | 9 |
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If memory serves me correctly, I remember reading something about
a golf ball being hit over 600 yards, but, the ball was teeded up
at the end of an airport runway, and received the bounce and roll
from the aspalt. Regardless, its still a little farther then I can
hit it.
Steve
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| 1096.2 | | KOALA::DIAMOND | No brag, Just fact. | Wed Oct 10 1990 11:37 | 8 |
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A ball was hit over 600 yards once with a 5 iron.
Believe it or not.
The man who did it was Alan Shepard. The place - THE MOON.
Mike
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| 1096.3 | 5300 yds with a putter (!) | SIOG::OGRADY | | Thu Oct 11 1990 09:54 | 9 |
| A ball was hit over 5300 yds (!) using a putter, once
It was by a TV presenter on the Concorde. The ball travelled only 15 ft
in the plane, but over 3 miles in space.....
......a bit far fetched, but so's the Moon-shot
martin
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| 1096.4 | A mere 392 yards per Guiness | FINALY::SCHNEIHC | Hal Schneider-Something's Fishy | Thu Oct 11 1990 18:17 | 14 |
| According to this month's Golf Journal, Tommie Campbell of Ireland is
entered in the Guiness Book of World records for the longest drive
ever in competition. "In July, 1964, he drove a golf ball 392 yards on
the 18th hole at the Dun Laoghaire Golf Club, in County Dublin. It was
no small feat, certainly not for a man who, at that time, stood 5 feet
8 inches and weighed 147 pounds. That drive became the longest recorded
drive in a competition under what could be called normal conditions."
Certainly no where near as spectacular as some of the previous entries
but pretty remarkable just the same. This record has stood for over 26
years even with all the "wonderful" technological advances seen in
clubs in recent years.
Hal
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| 1096.5 | How about a mile? | ODIXIE::QUINN | | Tue Oct 16 1990 09:49 | 7 |
| Bobby Riggs (remember the Billie Jean King tennis match?) once bet
someone he could hit a golf ball a mile, and he won!
He went to a frozen lake somewhere, tee'd the ball up and in fact hit
it much further than a mile.
- John
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| 1096.6 | Only in Dallas.. | USEM::VOUTSELAS | | Tue Oct 16 1990 16:49 | 7 |
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I think a group of guys in Dallas actually play through the
downtown area and hit golf balls 5 miles??
Don't know if these guys still do it?? Was a few years ago.
Ang
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| 1096.7 | 560 yards or more in competition. | PETRUS::DAWSON | | Wed Sep 04 1991 05:15 | 6 |
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Read Note 393.54 for the biggest hit ever.
Ken
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