The Margin: Octogenarian wows crowd by sinking insane 94-foot putt to win a new car

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This Ole Miss has quite the putting stroke.

During halftime of the Ole Miss/Alabama hoops game at in Oxford, Mississippi, over the weekend, Mary Ann Wakefield, 84 years old, had the opportunity to win a 2020 Nissan NSANY, -2.77% Altima. She just had to sink a 94-foot putt.

Mary Ann did not disappoint:

As you can see, Tony the Landshark was quick to congratulate, and so was the rest of the internet, which made the clip go viral with more than a million views.

The GIFs were flying:

Ole Miss athletic director Keith Carter was among the thousands chiming in. Here he is reacting on Sunday to a tweet from ESPN:

As impressive as Wakefield’s putt was, she’s got a long way to go to match this long-range bomb from Olympic legend Michael Phelps:

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