Remember the ball that Rory McIlroy threw into the crowd after winning his first Open Championship? The one that everyone was shocked he didn’t keep?
Yeah, that ball was worth a lot of money.
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It was put up for bidding by Green Jacket Auctions on July 23 for $1,000, but it sold for way more than that. The auction ended Sunday morning, bringing in a whopping $52,038.65.
Courtesy of Green Jacket Auctions
The man who caught the ball at Royal Liverpool, Lee Horner, turned down a $10,000 offer to sell the ball outright to Green Jacket Auctions. Instead, he opted to sell the ball himself on the website, giving them a portion of the final sale price.
Safe to say he came away with more than $10,000 on this one.
McIlroy’s ball came close to becoming the most expensive golf ball sold on GreenJacketAuctions.com, coming up just shy of the $55,000 Bobby Jones signed ball.
The auction saw a flurry of bids late on Saturday, more than doubling the price from $21,109.00 at around 3 p.m. EST, to the final sale price of $52,038.65 on Sunday morning.
With the way McIlroy is playing of late, he’s certainly on track to become one of the greatest golfers of all time. Could this ball wind up being a bargain at $52,038.65? We’ll see.
And while we’re at it, take a peek at Back9’s upcoming original show starring the good folks at Green Jacket Auctions, “Golf Treasures,” currently in production. Back9Network launches on DIRECTV September 29th on channel 262.
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