Hal Sutton's 1998 TOUR Championship Contestant Money Clip - Winner

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Hal Sutton's 1998 TOUR Championship Contestant Money Clip - Winner

The scores of 69-67-68-70 that week in 1998 led to one of the crowning achievements of Sutton's celebrated career. The culmination of the 1998 PGA Tour schedule would be played by only the top 30 deserving players at a familiar host site in Atlanta, Georgia's East Lake Golf Club. Hal Sutton played victor at the Texas Open slightly more than a month prior on September 27th, with a narrow one stroke win. While he won by the slimmest of margins there, it would be a tie after 72 holes at East Lake for the 1998 Tour Championship with Fuji's Vijay Singh. The Sudden Death would decide it, with Hal Sutton's 4-would approach at the nerving 240 yard par 3 18th hole and finishing it off with a confident putt with the ball settling at the bottom of the cup. The significance of this tournament would go beyond winning the final playoff event, as his second victory of the year would be the deciding factor for his 1998 PGA Tour Comeback Player of the Year award campaign. Here is his Champion Hal Sutton's 1998 TOUR Championship Contestant Money Clip. A signed letter of provenance from Hal Sutton comes with this lot.

The Hal Sutton Collection

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Hal Sutton's golf game flourished while growing up in his hometown of Shreveport, Louisiana. In fact the highly touted amateur golfer chose to stay closeby after high school and went to local Centenary College. It wouldn't take much time for the All American to put his school and town on the national golfing map when he received 'Golf Magazine's 1980 College Player of the Year' after 14 victories and lifting the small liberal arts school to 9th in the Nation. Unsurprisingly Hal Sutton would find great success at the professional level, notching 14 PGA Tour victories between 1982 and 2001. The 1983 season was a one for Sutton, earning PGA Tour Player of the Year honors as the leading money winner and the new accolade of 'major champion.' Sports Illustrated's golf writer Dan Jenkins' emphatically recapped his 1983 PGA Championship triumph with "There's a New Bear on the Loose - Hal Sutton Put a Death Grip on the PGA Championship To Stop a Classic Jack Nicklaus Charge." This came only months after his The Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass win. Representing his country became a common role Sutton found himself in, as a 4-time Ryder Cup player in 1985, 1987, 1999, and 2002, before being chosen as the Ryder Cup Captain in 2004. He was a victorious Walker Cup team member in 1979 and 1981.
After playing two decades on the tour Hal began to shift his attention to philanthropy, with that soon becoming a main focus. This didn't go unnoticed in the golfing community and Sutton was the 2007 Payne Stewart Award recipient. He would raise more than $2 million with fellow Louisiana natives David Toms and Kelly Gibson for Hurricane Katrina and Rita victims. The Golf Auction has been very appreciative of the opportunity to offer some of Hal's Collection, including his 1998 TOUR Championship Calamity Jane Trophy, Gold Plated Scotty Cameron Putter for 2000 Players Win and all four of his 2000 Players Championship winning scorecards when it was "The Right Club."