If you already have a series of historical golf clubs used by Tiger Woods, it’s better to have incredible pockets.
Well, for a happy player, they have the whole appropriate forest used during the legendary race from 2000 to 2001. Where are they?
Woods ‘Famous bags on this iconic site are included in the list on the iron 681-T and the fashion corner. The 60- and 58-degree putters also featured the “Tiger” logo.
The clubs weren’t made from any exotic materials, but there must have been some magic dust used in the manufacturing process, as Woods won nine tournaments with them in 2000.
Three of those victories were majors: the U.S. Open, the British Open and the PGA Championship. Woods won the Masters in 2001, becoming the first player to win all four majors since Bobby Jones accomplished the feat in 1930.
I have never completed a large helmet calendar in the golf course, but the realization of Woods has become known as a tigers slum.
The 48 -year -old football player has added another honor to his collection in the same year as the player’s championship.
So when Woods’ club from that trophy-laden period were put up for sale by Golden Age Auctions in March 2022, it looked extremely likely the record for golf memorabilia would be shattered.
Prior to the auction for Woods’ clubs, the highest fee paid for an iconic piece of golf history was for Horton Smiths’ Masters green jacket, which got sold for $682,000 (£524,799) in September 2013.
But that figure is slowly fading. Bidding started at $25,000 (£19,239) but soared into seven figures after an American bought Woods’ set for a staggering $5.15 million (£3.96 million).
A Houston resident by the name of Todd Brock was the man who came into possession of Woods’ clubs before the seven-figure sale when he bought them for a measly $57,242 (£44,060) in 2010 from Steve Mata.
Mata was Titleist’s Vice President of Player Promotions in 2001 and picked up the clubs when he and a co-worker brought new prototype clubs to Woods at a tournament that year.
Woods was interested in using his new set immediately, so the colleague Titleist took old 48 -year -old clubs to make sure that there was no obvious difference in the specifications.
Then, the big winner at 15 times decided to give his old set of clubs to the mother, of which they owned until he sells them Brock.
However, the auction of the Golden Era items was not without controversy, as Woods’ longtime agent, Mark Steinberg, disputed the authenticity of the clubs.
“Tiger has a set of authentic Slam irons at home,” Steinberg said in a statement to Golf Digest. Do you think Tiger would ever give away something that meaningful to his career?
“Could there be replicas out there that he was generous in giving away? Sure. But replicas versus authenticity – read into it what you will.”
However, Golden Age founder Ryan Carey doubled down and was adamant the set of clubs they were selling were indeed legitimate.
“Two Titleist executives who were in charge of Tiger’s clubs signed affidavits attesting to their legitimacy, one of them took a polygraph test, and the original purchaser in 2010 also did his due diligence,” Carey said.
And just look at the wear marks on the eight iron clubs. The clubs had obviously been hit down the middle thousands of times by the best ball-strikers in the world.
“If Tiger thinks he has these clubs in his home, he’d love to see them.”