2024 March Golf Memorabilia Auction - Closing Date 3/3/2024
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 3/4/2024
1996 Quad City Classic 18th Hole Winning Flag - Ed Fiori Win - Bob Burns Collection
Winning caddy Robert 'Bullet Bob' Burns saved this pin from the final hole (18) at the 1996 Quad City Classic when his golfer Ed Fiori denied Tiger Woods his first PGA Tour win. There is slight wear on the Standard Golf flag consistent with course usage and tube intact. Ed Fiori was at a point in his golfing career that was 14-years removed from his last PGA Tour win and had missed the cut in over half (10) of his last 18 starts. In fact Fiori was asking himself if it was time for his second career to begin, likely a salesman of some sort for the affable 43-year-old. The Sunday showdown between Fiori and the newest golfing sensation Tiger Woods, who was making only his third professional start after a decorated amateur career, did not end as most thought it would. Tiger Woods had the 54-hole lead by one stroke over Fiori. Ed would card a bogey at the first and find himself three back after one. Tiger Woods faltered with a quadruple bogey on hole no. 4 and Fiori realized after looking at the standard bearer that he was now a shot ahead of the man that the gallery came to see. Fiori would take Tiger Woods' first professional win away from him that day and reinvigorate his own PGA Tour, along with gaining a new nickname that still gets tossed around 25 years later - 'The Tiger Slayer.' A signed letter of provenance from Robert 'Bullet Bob' Burns comes with this lot.
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