2016 Ryder Cup Week Golf Memorabilia Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 10/2/2016
1998 The Open Championship at Royal Birkdale Contestant Bag Tag - Steve Jones Collection
A 1998 Open Championship at Royal Birkdale bag tag, issued to Steve Jones, is offered in this lot. The leather Competitor bag tag is in excellent condition, and would display well in your collection or luggage. The eight time PGA Tour winner, Jones, is best known for his victory at the 1996 U.S. Open at Oakland Hills Country Club. Mark O'Meara would be the winner of the 1998 Open Championship, finishing two strokes ahead of Brian Watts in a playoff for his second major championship of the year.
Bag tag measures 3 3/4" x 3 1/4" (not including clasp)
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.
Please note: This auction will end at 7:00pm EST on Sunday, October 2nd with EXTENDED BIDDING to follow. All items in the auction will remain open until no items have received a bid within a 15 minute time period. All lots are free to be bid on until extended bidding has ended
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