He Gets Plenty of Mileage From His Best Drives

Tiger Woods and John Daly are renowned long drivers, but Jason Zubac is right there with them, maybe longer.

Zubac recently won his fourth consecutive National Long Driving Championship in Mesquite, Nev., with a winning drive of 376 yards two feet nine inches.

According to Golf World magazine, Zubac has become something of a cult hero in recent years.

He wows fans by slamming golf balls through telephone books during his traveling road show and he can hit a ball 210 mph, according to the Titleist launch monitor.

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Trivia time: Which NFL quarterbacks have the unenviable record of being sacked the most in a game?

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The Odom factor: Peter Vecsey in the New York Post on Clipper rookie Lamar Odom:

“How good is Odom?

“So good, longtime season-suffering-seat holder Billy Crystal was arrested for scalping tickets.

“So good, Jim Harrick applied for the Clipper job and promised not to reject it if hired.”

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Out of luck: Former heavyweight boxing champion Larry Holmes’ 50th birthday was Wednesday.

“He celebrated the usual way,” says Jay Leno, “driving past Don King’s house to get a glimpse of his money.”

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Resources: Jim Armstrong in the Denver Post: “So Master P [rapper Percy Miller], after averaging a bucket a game in garbage time, is hacked off because he didn’t make the team in Toronto.

“Which means, of course, he’ll have to settle for buying the team in Toronto.”

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Low priority: Steve Rosenbloom in the Chicago Tribune: “In the GQ Men of the Year Awards shown on VH1, Jon Bon Jovi presented the coach-of-the-year award to Yankee Manager Joe Torre.

“Talk about a non sequitur.

“Torre taped an acceptance speech because the show took place during the World Series.

“Said host Dennis Miller, ‘I can’t believe Torre stiffed us.’ ”

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More Rosenbloom: “I expect White Sox General Manager Ron Schueler to go after Ken Griffey Jr. the same way he went after Greg Maddux, which was offering a three-year deal when everybody else was offering five.”

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Trivia answer: Bert Jones of Baltimore in 1980 and Warren Moon of Houston in 1985, 12 each.

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And finally: John Fox, the defensive coordinator of the New York Giants, has lived a nomadic life. He has worked for five teams in his 11-year NFL career.

So TWA’s in-flight magazine, the Ambassador, asks: So what does an NFL assistant say when he proposes?

“Darling, I’d like you to marry me, but you have to know from July to January I may be gone 18 hours a day. I’ll perennially face getting fired, often through no fault of my own. But I can promise you we’ll live in a nice house.

“Lots and lots of them.”