Here's a quote from a golf article about a guy, Jason Zuback, doing it. I tried to find video, but couldn't. I watched him hit it through a phone book about 5 inches thick.
I've never tried it with one that big, but it's really not that hard. I can hit a golf ball over 350 yards...sometimes...and I have a high swing speed, that helps. I've hit one through a small phonebook, but it's hard because there's a lot of give in it. You have to secure it really good, and then hit the ball in it just right.
[] There is more money in hitting a golf ball a long way now than there used to be -- Jason Zuback, the Tiger Woods of the genre, earns $10,000 or more for an exhibition that George Bayer, the big-driving ideal of 40 years ago, might have been lucky to make $500 -- but the primal pleasure of the huge hit in a sport layered with nuance remains the same. When Zuback propels a ball clean through a watermelon, a piece of plywood or a phone book for a mid-sized city, he is Atlas, not Houdini. [/]
