Tiger Woods broke record at auction with historic items but agent claims they’re not real
Tiger Woods broke record at auction with historic items but agent claims they’re not real If you ever thought about owning a historic set of golf clubs used by Tiger Woods, you’d better have insanely deep pockets Woods’ famous bag from that iconic stretch included Titleist 681-T irons as well as Vokey wedges. His 60-degree…
Tiger Woods broke record at auction with historic items but agent claims they’re not real
If you ever thought about owning a historic set of golf clubs used by Tiger Woods, you’d better have insanely deep pockets
Woods’ famous bag from that iconic stretch included Titleist 681-T irons as well as Vokey wedges.
His 60-degree and 58-degree wedges also came with a ‘Tiger’ inscription on them.
Woods’ famous bag from that iconic stretch included Titleist 681-T irons as well as Vokey wedges.
His 60-degree and 58-degree wedges also came with a ‘Tiger’ inscription on them.
Three of those were majors as he finished top of the pile at the U.S. Open, The Open and the PGA Championship.
Woods went on to win The Masters in 2001 to become the first man to hold all four majors since Bobby Jones accomplished the feat in 1930.
While nobody has ever completed a calendar grand slam in golf, Woods’ achievement became known as the ‘Tiger Slam’.
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 was eclipsed, and then some.
The auction began at $25,000 (£19,239) but skyrocketed all the way to seven figures as an American individual bought Woods’ set for an eye-watering $5.15m (£3.96m).
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.
