Holds the world record for longest drive in a professional golf
tournament. He hit a 515-yard drive made during a 1974 U.S. National
Seniors Open championship in Las Vegas when he was 64.
He earned a bachelor's degrees in physics and engineering at Emory
University and Georgia Institute of Technology. He also earned a
doctorate in kinesiology at Georgia Tech.
Suffered a stroke in 1989 that left him partially paralyzed and
confined to a wheelchair. He continued to teach golf until about two
weeks prior to his death in November 2005.
Was an opera singer and appeared in the Los Angeles Civic Opera
production of "Desert Song" in 1947.