1997 PGA Championship at Winged Foot Contestant Badge - Steve Jones Collection

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1997 PGA Championship at Winged Foot Contestant Badge - Steve Jones Collection

This lot features a Contestant badge from the 1997 PGA Championship, offered from 1996 U.S. Open champion Steve Jones. The glossy tournament badge, belonging to Jones, is in excellent condition and is expected to attract bidders. Steve Jones won eight times on the PGA Tour, and his claim to fame came in 1996 when he was named PGA Tour Comeback Player of the Year and won the U.S. Open. Jones was not the 1997 PGA Championship winner, as Davis Love III won the tournament at Winged Foot Golf Club by five strokes over Justin Leonard.Badge measures 1 3/8" x 2"

The winning bidder will receive the accompanying letter signed by Steve Jones

**THE STEVE JONES COLLECTION-- 8x PGA Winner & 1996 U.S. Open Champion**
We at The Golf Auction appreciate the opportunity to partner with the highly respected PGA Touring Professional Steve Jones in the auctioning of items from his collection of player badges, clubs, championship medals and mementos assembled over a PGA career which began in 1982 and spanned over the next 30 plus seasons on the regular and Champions Tours. This great run of golf at its highest level saw Jones five times finish in the yearly Top 40 of PGA earnings. His long successful career was highlighted by eight PGA Tour wins claimed at some of the most esteemed of Tour events which included the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, Bob Hope Chrysler Classic, Canadian Open and of course his Major triumph at the 1996 United States Open. This victory which came at the famed, for its difficulty of play, Oakland Hills. This triumph saw Jones post a record setting winning score of 278. This championship winning score remains to this day the the lowest total posted at any of the six U.S. Open's and two Senior U.S. Open's held at the course Ben Hogan would call "The Monster" (with members of the champions at Oakland Hills club besides Jones including Hall of Famers Ralph Guldahl, Hogan, Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus). Following the 1996 golf season, Jones also had the esteemed honor of being named the recipient of the Ben Hogan Award which is given annually by the Golf Writers Association of America to an individual who has continued to be active in golf despite a physical handicap or serious illness.

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