- 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.
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