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‘Tiger Slam’ clubs could sell for more than a million dollars
And the irons and wedges Woods utilized in 2000 and 2001 as a part of his historic feat at the moment are up for public sale.
The golf equipment — 2-PW Titleist Cast irons and two customized Vokey wedges, each stamped “TIGER” — had been final privately auctioned in 2010, and had been displayed privately in a Houston workplace complicated, in response to US based mostly auctioneers Golden Age Golf Auctions.
As you may anticipate from such record-breaking golf equipment, the gadgets are nicely used, in response to auctioneers, who say a put on mark on the face of the 8 iron is “otherwordly.”
In the meantime, the 58 diploma wedge is bent to 56 levels and hand stamped “56*”.
Auctioneers say that the golf equipment ought to promote for seven figures.
“I do marvel if [the irons] would be the first golf collectible to interrupt the $1 million mark,” Golden Age auctioneers founder Ryan Carey informed Golf Digest.
“It is not like there are a lot of folks gathering used iron units, because it’s simply not possible, so it is exhausting to know the market. These aren’t precisely baseball playing cards.”
“The Tiger Slam irons include a considerable quantity of provenance, together with affidavits/declarations of the 2 Titleist executives each in command of Tiger’s golf equipment and witness to the change when Tiger gave the golf equipment away,” the auctioneers mentioned on its web site.
Golden Age Golf Auctions additionally mentioned that former Titleist Vice President Steve Mata had handed a polygraph check in 2010 concerning the validity of the golf equipment.
“We even have a duplicate of a September 2000 Golfweek journal article that detailed the precise specs of Tiger’s golf equipment used to win the 2000 PGA Championship, and so they match the supplied Tiger Slam golf equipment completely, together with the 58 diploma wedge bent to 56 levels,” they added.
CNN’s Ben Morse contributed to this report.