Woods’s ball from 1997 Masters sells for $64,124

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 Titleist ball, which has ‘Tiger’ stamped on it, began at $500 when Nexsen put it up for auction on 27 March, the auction site said.

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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.