Louis Oosthuizen in 500-yard drive
Oosthuizen’s tee-shot on the 583-yard first hole at Blackstone Golf Club was pushed right of the fairway and bounced on to a winding cart path running down the side of the hole. It then rolled downhill for more than a minute and a half, picking up speed after almost coming to a halt at one point and trundling past two bemused spectators before coming to a halt against a kerb - around 500 yards from the tee.
From there the world No 7 took a free drop and pitched back on to the fairway, eventually recording a par-5 on his way to a round of 71 and four-under total of 140.
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Hide AdThe longest drive ever recorded in golf history was hit with a persimmon driver. The man who did it was 64 year-old Mike Austin, who crushed a monster of a drive 515 yards in 1974, at the National Senior Open Championship at Desert Rose, Las Vegas.