Tiger Woods’ back-up putter from 2002 is set to bring in an eye-watering sum as it is sold at auction this week.
Golden Age Auction is offering bidders the chance to pick up one of the 82-time PGA Tour winner’s back-up Scotty Cameron putters from the 2002 season, as the golfing great was often given three Scotty Camerons for his PGA Tour campaign.
A similar putter from his 2001 season was also listed for auction in September last year, and the similar model to this year’s listing sold for a staggering £113,000, once again via Gold Age Auction.
As a result the 2002 model is set to exceed the sale price of the 2001 edition used by the 15-time major winner, with bidding at £39,000 already with ten days still remaining on the auction.
According to the auction listing the famous putter ‘has spent the past 18-plus years in the Far East, the Middle East and Europe’ before arriving at the Golden Age Auction warehouse two days before it was set to go on sale.
The co-founder of Golden Age Golf Auctions, Ryan Carey, revealed in a 2019 interview with Golf Channel that it would go for ‘$3 million to $5 million’ if ever available. Carey also added a note into the auction listing for the 2002 edition of the putter that he now believes that his estimate was too low.
Woods has not featured at a golf event since being involved in a horror car accident in February of this year in Los Angeles, after the joint most successful PGA Tour player of all time was in the area hosting the Genesis Invitational at Riviera Country Club.
Since then golf fans across the world have received a number of positive updates on Woods’ health, including from friend and fellow Tour professional Rickie Fowler, who revealed at last month’s 3M Open that the 45-year-old was working hard during rehabilitation to get back to full fitness.
Additionally, Woods was then pictured applying significant weight to his surgically-affected leg outside a hotel in Beverly Hills two weeks later, before the golfing great confirmed via his social media channels that he would return to host the Hero World Championship this November.
Despite this, there was no word on when the 2019 Masters champion would return to the course to compete, after a source close to Woods revealed last week that he is still not able to play.
