Article: LONG DRIVER MIKE AUSTIN DIES.(Sports)

LOS ANGELES -- Mike Austin, the world record holder for longest drive in a professional golf tournament, died Tuesday at the Motion Picture & Television Hospital. He was 95.

Austin was golf's original long driver and is best known for blasting a 515-yard drive during the 1974 U.S. National Senior Open in Las Vegas. He was 64 at the time, and the drive, hit using a steel-shafted persimmon driver and a ...

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