http://www.longdrivers.com/2011WLDCResults/2011OpenFinals.html Re/Max World Long Drive Championships 2011, Finals] Long Drivers of America, Retrieved 13 July 2012 The world record recognized by Guinness World Records as the longest drive in a competition is 516 yards by 64-year-old Mike Austin in 1974 at the US Senior National Open Qualifier with a 43.5" steel shafted persimmon wood driver.