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Warren Buffett’s golf clubs are up for auction (AKA Warren Buffett WITB)
He may have a net worth of over $80 billion, but business mogul Warren Buffett isn’t letting go of his golf clubs without getting a return on his investment.
Warren Buffett’s clubs will be auctioned by Boston-based RR Auction, with the lot comprising of Buffett’s personally-owned and used fourteen clubs and customized golf bag.
What does arguably the greatest investor of all time game? The golf clubs include nine Ping Eye2 clubs (wedge, sand wedge, and irons 3-9), an older Ping putter, Callaway Heaven Wood, Callaway Divine Nine, and two Orlimar Trimetal drivers (13° and 16°). Inside one of the bag’s pockets is an assortment of tees and markers from Augusta National and the Seminole Golf Club, and bag tags from the Four Seasons Biltmore in Santa Barbara.
No stranger to auctions, in 2016 Buffet auctioned off “Lunch with Warren Buffett” which fetched a whopping $3.3 million, and according to sources, the 88-year-old’s golf clubs are estimated to collect over $10k.
The golf bag itself features his name embroidered in gold on the front flap, with the logo of Berkshire Hathaway subsidiary NetJets on both sides; attached is a plastic 2005 Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference tag, with affixed green labels, “Buffett” and “88.” Wrapped around the handle of each club is a Warren Buffett property tag, the majority of which read: “Omaha Country Club, Warren Buffett, Omaha, NE 68152.”
The consignor notes: “The clubs were purchased for Warren by the director of the Buffett Foundation and given to Buffett sometime in the 90s. They were his only set of clubs from then until now. The bag was custom made for Warren by NetJets (a Berkshire subsidiary). Warren personally handed me the clubs inside his home in 2016. He gave them to me after my clubs had been stolen. I was engaged to his granddaughter at the time and have had them in my possession up until this point.”
Speaking on this particular lot, Bobby Livingston, Executive VP at RR Auction stated
“Having been well-used by one of the world’s most successful businessmen, these golf clubs are truly remarkable and embody the essence of Buffett’s life and legacy,”
So, GolfWRXers, any takers?
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Photos from the 2024 PGA Championship
GolfWRX is on site this week at Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Kentucky, for the PGA Championship.
While we see fewer equipment changes and new gear seeding at major championships, we get a look at custom gear and looks into the bags of players we rarely see, which is just as exciting. In the case of the PGA Championship, this means a look at the gear some of the PGA Professionals who qualified for the tournament will be gaming, and LIV players, such as Jon Rahm and Patrick Reed.
Check out links to all our albums from Valhalla below and check back throughout the week as we continue to update.
General Albums
WITB Albums
- Michael Block – WITB – 2024 PGA Championship
- Patrick Reed – WITB – 2024 PGA Championship
- Cam Smith – WITB – 2024 PGA Championship
- Brooks Koepka – WITB – 2024 PGA Championship
- Josh Speight – WITB – 2024 PGA Championship
- Takumi Kanaya – WITB – 2024 PGA Championship
- Kyle Mendoza – WITB – 2024 PGA Championship
- Adrian Meronk – WITB – 2024 PGA Championship
- Jordan Smith – WITB – 2024 PGA Championship
- Jeremy Wells – WITB – 2024 PGA Championship
- Jared Jones – WITB – 2024 PGA Championship
- John Somers – WITB – 2024 PGA Championship
- Larkin Gross – WITB – 2024 PGA Championship
- Tracy Phillips – WITB – 2024 PGA Championship
- Jon Rahm – WITB – 2024 PGA Championship
- Keita Nakajima – WITB – 2024 PGA Championship
- Kazuma Kobori – WITB – 2024 PGA Championship
- David Puig – WITB – 2024 PGA Championship
- Ryan Van Velzen – WITB – 2024 PGA Championship
- Brad Marek – WITB – 2024 PGA Championship
- Chris Gotterup – WITB – 2024 PGA Championship
- Rich Beem WITB – 2024 PGA Championship
- Phil Mickelson – WITB – 2024 PGA Championship
- Matt Dobyns – WITB – 2024 PGA Championship
- Lucas Herbert – WITB – 2024 PGA Championship
- Jason Dufner – WITB – 2024 PGA Championship
- John Daly – WITB – 2024 PGA Championship
- Taylor Gooch – WITB – 2024 PGA Championship
- Dean Burmester – WITB – 2024 PGA Championship
- Joaquin Niemann – WITB – 2024 PGA Championship
- Dustin Johnson – WITB – 2024 PGA Championship
Pullout Albums
- Ping putter covers – 2024 PGA Championship
- Bettinardi covers – 2024 PGA Championship
- Cameron putter covers – 2024 PGA Championship
- Max Homa – Titleist 2 wood – 2024 PGA Championship
- Scotty Cameron experimental putter shaft by UST – 2024 PGA Championship
- Joaquin Niemann – new Ping putter – 2024 PGA Championship
- Brooks Koepka’s new Cameron putter – 2024 PGA Championship
- Rickie Fowler’s Cobra bag and Aerojet driver – 2024 PGA Championship
- Super Stroke grip – 2024 PGA Championship
- Tiger Woods – 2024 PGA Championship
- Michael Block’s new TaylorMade “Proto” 7-iron, from address – 2024 PGA Championship
- Odyssey putter covers – 2024 PGA Championship
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Tour Rundown: Rose blooms, Rory rolls
This week last year, I found myself praying to the weather goddesses and gods that Rochester would be spared their wrath over the next seven days. The 2023 Oak Hill PGA Championship (that was slated for August when the contract was signed) was on the horizon, and I wanted my region to show well. Things turned out fine, with all four seasons making an appearance, a PGA Professional (Blockie!) stealing hearts, and a proven champion in Koepka (although I was pulling for Viktor.)
This year, no concerns. Louisville will shine this week at Valhalla, but we’ve matters to consider before we look to four days of coverage this week. Nelly did not win on the LPGA this week, so who did? The PGA Tour held two events in the Carolinas, and Tour Champions celebrated a major event in Alabama. Four noteworthy events to run down, so let’s head to RunDownTown and take care of business.
LPGA @ Founders Cup: Rose blooms
There was a sense that Rose Zhang might have a role in the 2020s version of the LPGA. After winning everything there was in amateur golf, she came out and won her first tournament as a professional. That was last May and, let’s be honest, who among us thought it would take 12 months for Zhang to win again? Rhymes with hero, I know.
This week in New Jersey, eyes were on Nelly Korda, as she made a run at a sixth consecutive win on the LPGA circuit. Korda ran out of gas on Saturday, and that was just fine. Madelene Sagstrom and Zhang had turned the soiree at Upper Montclair into a battle of birdies. Gabriela Ruffels came third at nine-under par. No one else reached double digits under par but Sagstrom and Zhang. They didn’t just reach -10…they more than doubled it.
Sagstrom had the look of a winner with five holes left to play. She was three shots clear of Zhang, at 23-under par. The Swede played her closing quintet in plus-one, finishing at 22-deep, 13 shots ahead of Ruffels. That performance we’d anticipated from Zhang? It happened on Sunday. She closed with four birdies in five holes to snatch victory number two, by two shots. Spring is a lovely time for a Rose in bloom.
Take a look back at hole No. 1… @rosezhang is living life on the edge ? pic.twitter.com/o6z6SK7TRA
— LPGA (@LPGA) May 12, 2024
PGA Tour @ Wells Fargo: Rory the Fourth is crowned in Charlotte
Xander Schauffele is a likable lad. He has an Olympic gold medal on his shelf, and a few PGA Tour titles to his credit. Even X knows that even par won’t get much done in a final round unless conditions are brutal. They weren’t brutal at Quail Hollow on Sunday. X posted even par on day four. It kept him ahead of third-place finisher Byeong Hun An but gave him zero chance of challenging for the title.
Paired with Xander in round four was the King of Quail, Rory McIlroy. The Northern Irishman had previously won thrice at the North Carolina track, and he was champing at the bit to gain some momentum on the road to Louisville. While Xander scored increasingly worse along the week (64-67-70-71) McIlroy saved his best round for the final round. Thanks to five birdies and two eagles, McIlroy ran away with the event, winning his fourth Wells Fargo by five over Schauffele.
HOLE-OUT EAGLE FOR RORY!!!
He now leads by SIX! pic.twitter.com/UE49lwfwNC
— PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) May 12, 2024
PGA Tour @ Myrtle Beach Classic: a little CG won the inaugural week
It always seemed odd that the PGA Tour had zero stops along the Grand Strand each season. This week’s event seemed odd in that the golfers played the same course each day, and there were zero handicaps involved. Most events at Myrtle Beach involve hundreds of amateurs at dozens of courses, with all sorts of handicaps.
The Dunes Club is a Robert Trent Jones Sr. course, down toward Pawley’s Island. It claims what used to be considered an unreachable, par-five hole, the watery 13th. Nothing is unreachable any longer, including a 22-under par total for a six-shot win. Chris Gotterup, a former Rutgers and Oklahoma golfer, played sizzling golf all week and won by a sextet of shots. Gotterup opened with 66, then improved to 64 on Friday. His Saturday 65 sounded a beacon of “come get me,” and his closing 67 ensured that second place was the only thing up for grabs.
Chasing the podium’s second level were a bunch of young Americans. In the end, Alastair Docherty and Davis Thompson reached 16-deep, thanks to rounds of 64 and 68 on Sunday. They held off six golfers at 15-under par. The victory was Gotterup’s first on tour and should be enough to get him a Wikipedia page, among other plaudits.
Leader by SIX!
@ChrisGotterup | @MyrtleBeachC pic.twitter.com/TVdA6ZPYc4— PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) May 12, 2024
PGA Tour Champions @ Regions Traditions: Vindication for Dougie
Doug Barron, if I recall correctly, was suspended by the Powers That Be, way back in 2009, for testosterone. He was naturally low in the hormone, so he took supplements. This did not sit well with certain admins, so he was put on the shelf for 18 months. Not cool.
In 2019, Barron came out on the Tour Champions. He won in August. The next year, despite the craziness of Covid, he won again. Barron hit a dry spell for a few years. He kept his card, but accrued no additional victories. In late April, Barron showed serious signs of life, with a t2 at Mitsubishi. This week in Birmingham, he jumped out to a lead, lost it, then gained it back on Saturday. With major championship glory on the line, Barron brought the train into the station with 68 on Sunday.
Stephen Alker, the man who could not lose just two years ago, gave serious chase with a closing 63. He moved up 11 slots, into solo 2nd on Sunday. He finished two shots back of the champion. Two shots ain’t much. Cough once and you drop a pair. Third place saw a three-way tie, including last year’s winner (Steve Stricker) and runner-up (Ernie Els.) Despite the intimidating presence of the game’s greats, however, Doug Barron had more than enough of everything this week, and he has a third Tour Champions title to show off.
At the @RegionsTrad, all champions receive a green bike.
Doug Barron decided to take a victory lap ? pic.twitter.com/bEzENMjZwv
— PGA TOUR Champions (@ChampionsTour) May 13, 2024
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jake krayson
Jan 28, 2019 at 8:42 pm
what’s the color code on the Ping Eye2’s ?
Bab A'booey
Jan 28, 2019 at 4:09 pm
Did the guy ever marry his granddaughter, I understand he’s not that charitable to his offspring. I want the Seminole ball markers, maybe the bag, rest goes to 1st tee for a $10 contribution certified by crooked PGA club values on the website.
joro
Jan 28, 2019 at 10:51 am
Looks like we have a bunch of jealous twits in here on this one. Some have it and some don’t, regardless of how they got it. So go get your own, I just have wonder why they are worth anything,
JP
Jan 26, 2019 at 12:56 am
He is a very bad tipper.
At the hotel
Check in bellman $5-$10
Check out bellman $5-$10
Bringing up packages $1-$2
Laundry up/down $1-$2
Limo driver to/from airport $10
Waiter/Waitress $5 (regardless of bill)
DS
Jan 28, 2019 at 5:16 pm
The waiter/waitress tipping is the only thing I see off here, and I’ve seen a check with his tip attached which was 18%-20%. The rest isn’t evidence of a bad tipper.
jake krayson
Jan 28, 2019 at 8:40 pm
still better tipper than TW
Tom
Jan 26, 2019 at 12:25 am
Ping Eye 2 Irons are the best irons ever made, well done Warren…
Crusher
Jan 25, 2019 at 10:00 pm
Geez,…..that is a set of clubs that looks like the guy last played golf in 1992. Orlimars and Ping Eye2’s? It appears he has made billions by not spending money on golf
Charles
Jan 25, 2019 at 8:23 pm
He has a membership at Augusta. I hope he’s got a nice new set.
Jamie
Jan 25, 2019 at 3:32 pm
Fake capitalist. Tax break harvester. Son of an insider trading congressman. Produces nothing. Sloshes paper around.
Benny
Jan 25, 2019 at 5:16 pm
Well said Jamie. People don’t get this rich w/o inside help. I always wonder about the days when super rich made their first unethical decision. Then what was built from then on. Do we all really believe the worlds richest never did anything wrong to someone or some thing?
2putttom
Jan 25, 2019 at 8:40 pm
Bill Gates and ….
Jose Pinatas
Jan 26, 2019 at 8:08 am
Trump….
NickD
Jan 26, 2019 at 7:00 pm
As well as Obama and the Clintons…. how did they get so rich just being in Politics?
Frownie Kaufman
Jan 27, 2019 at 11:11 am
Don’t think Obama or the Clinton’s fall under the world’s richest. Their referring to shady billionaires here. I doubt Clinton’s or Obama’s are billionaires, however their definitely shady. Every politician is.
Scott
Jan 29, 2019 at 8:41 am
Are those people that are NOT rich, somehow morally superior and without fault? Have you yourself never done anything wrong? Just saying…
Jose Pinatas
Jan 25, 2019 at 2:05 pm
More feasible is that some bag room kid at Omaha CC was cleaning out the bag room and tossed em because they’ve been sitting in there for 20 years unused.
He/She probably thought the member was dead.
Jamie
Jan 25, 2019 at 3:36 pm
This.
Captain Murica
Jan 25, 2019 at 1:59 pm
10k… Really?? Wonder what PGA value guide is on these? Is there 4 guest passes to Augusta National hidden in one of the pockets? If not, I’ll give ya 20 bucks for the set.
2putttom
Jan 25, 2019 at 12:58 pm
I raised the steer that bag is made from.
Jonathan Farrington
Jan 25, 2019 at 11:06 am
Haha, I still use an Olimar fairway, 17°!!
ht
Jan 25, 2019 at 11:02 am
Those Orlimar’s were fire back in the day
Joe
Jan 28, 2019 at 12:13 pm
They’re still legit. Among the best woods ever made IMO.
Gunter Eisenberg
Jan 25, 2019 at 10:24 am
Those Golf Pride Tour Velvet grips look slick. For one of the richest men in the world, you’d think he would spend a little money to change his grips a little more often.
carl spackler
Jan 25, 2019 at 9:36 am
What is his current WITB? PXGs?
BIG STU
Jan 26, 2019 at 6:25 am
Naah! Gold plated Homnas