{"id":4823,"date":"2023-04-10T18:12:37","date_gmt":"2023-04-10T18:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/golf-woods-ball-from-1997\/"},"modified":"2023-04-10T18:17:59","modified_gmt":"2023-04-10T18:17:59","slug":"golf-woods-ball-from-1997","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/golf-woods-ball-from-1997\/","title":{"rendered":"Golf-Woods&#8217; ball from 1997 Masters sells for $64,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) &#8211;     A golf ball Tiger Woods gave to a young fan during the final round of his victorious 1997 Masters tournament has sold for $64,124, auction house Golden Age Auctions said on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Woods bogeyed the fifth hole and handed the ball to Julian Nexsen, who was nine-years-old at the tie. Bidding for the Titleist ball, which has &#8216;Tiger&#8217; stamped on it, began at $500 when Nexsen put it up for auction on March 27, the auction site said.<\/p>\n<p>Woods, then 21, won the first of his 15 major titles in stunning fashion at the 1997 Masters with a record margin of 12 strokes and became the youngest golfer to triumph at Augusta National.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Unless Tiger himself or his caddie Fluff intentionally saved a ball from this historic final round (which we doubt), this may be the only confirmed golf ball from the final round of Tiger Woods&#8217; first major championship victory,&#8221; Golden Age Auctions said.<\/p>\n<p>According to the auctioneers, &#8220;dozens of people&#8221; witnessed the moment Woods handed the ball to Nexsen. It also featured in the Washington Times newspaper the next day.<\/p>\n<p>Nexsen has signed a legal declaration certifying the authenticity of the golf ball and the story of his final round interaction with Woods.<\/p>\n<p>Woods, 47, withdrew from this year&#8217;s Masters due to injury before the resumption of the third round, saying he had reaggravated a tissue inflammation that causes pain in the heel.<\/p>\n<p>In November last year a signed Woods ball sold for a record $186,000, Heritage Auctions said. Woods hit a hole-in-one with the ball on his professional tournament debut in 1996. <\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p> (Reporting by Hritika Sharma in Bengaluru; Editing by Peter Rutherford)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/golf-woods-ball-from-1997\/tiger-woods-of-the-u-s-is-given-the-victors-green\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportSportsNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3904J-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3904J-VIEWIMAGE\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) &#8211; A golf ball Tiger Woods gave to a young fan during the final round of his victorious 1997 Masters tournament has sold for $64,124, auction house Golden Age Auctions said on Sunday. Woods bogeyed the fifth hole and handed the ball to Julian Nexsen, who was nine-years-old at the tie. Bidding for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":4824,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1219],"tags":[1223],"class_list":["post-4823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-u-s-sports","tag-updated"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportSportsNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3904J-VIEWIMAGE.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4825,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4823\/revisions\/4825"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}