One of the "finest artefacts" of Tiger Woods' peerless career is being auctioned

The golf ball Tiger Woods used to make a hole-in-one at the 1996 Milwaukee Open has gone up for sale with Heritage Auctions.

Ben Smith

04 Nov 2022

One of the "finest artefacts" of Tiger Woods' peerless career is being auctioned — One of the "finest artefacts" of Tiger Woods' peerless career is being…

The golf ball Tiger Woods used to make a hole-in-one at the 1996 Milwaukee Open has gone up for auction.

This news was first reported by GOLF.

In case you need a bit of reminding, Woods made the famous ace at the par-3 14th hole at Brown Deer Golf Park during the final round.

Woods used a 6-iron and sent the crowd into an absolute frenzy.

Hello world.

One of those people who went absolutely nuts was a man named Bob Gustin and his brother-in-law David who watched Woods jar it.

They begged the young cat for the Titleist 1 golf ball and the superstar obliged.

Woods even signed the golf ball for Gustin.

It does beg the question, would you ever sell a piece of history like this? I'm not sure I could.

Woods' golf ball will of course fetch a pretty penny in the auction. The irons he used when he completed his famous "Tiger Slam" - where he won four successive majors - sold for more than $5m earlier in the year.

Gustin told the publication:

"Whatever it goes for, I'm splitting that with my brother-in-law, David.

"He's the one who shouted, 'Throw it over here!' He's the one who it deflected off of before it came to me. We both had a part in me ending up with this ball, so we'll both enjoy it after it goes to someone else."

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The price will also be boosted owing to the fact of its rarity.

Woods hasn't had a hole-in-one in competition since 1998. He did make an ace in each of his first three seasons when he turned professional.

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The golf ball will be sold by Heritage Auctions. We can't wait to see for just how much cash it fetches.

On the listing, Heritage Auctions wrote:

"It unquestionably ranks among the finest artefacts of Tiger Woods peerless career ever made available at public auction."

You can click on this link to see the full listing.

As of 4 November, the current bid was $22,000.

Predictions?

To give you a bit of a benchmark, the leaderboard from the Milwaukee Open (made out of cardboard) with Woods' name on it recently sold for $69,000 and a ticket sold for $99,000.