2021 June Auction - Ended 06/20/2021
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 6/20/2021
Hal Sutton's 1991 US Open Championship at Hazeltine National Contestant Badge
Available to the public for the first time is Hal Sutton's 1991 US Open at Hazeltine National Contestant Badge. Eight years after Sutton's PGA Championship victory, Sutton used this contestant badge featuring the detailed center USGA Great Seal relief and his name below as an identifier on the course. This relic was used throughout the US Open play that year. As the accompanying pictures depict, there are signs of wear on the reverse consistent to that of usage and aging of this metal.
Hesitancy arose among the PGA Tour players when it was announced that for the first time in 21 years Chaska, Minnesota's Hazeltine National Golf Club would play host to the US Open again in 1991. Disgruntled 1970 US Open contestant Dave Hill gave his unfiltered opinion post-round that it was "80 acres of corn and a few cows." The tournament would prove to play out as the USGA intended it to, with an extra day of golf and a duel between tour stars and major winners Payne Stewart and Scott Simpson. Midwesterner, Springfield, Missouri native Payne Stewart outlasted 1987 US champion Scott Simpson in an 18-hole Monday playoff in the Minneapolis suburb for his second major in the region (first outside of Chicago at Kemper Lakes) and first of his two U.S. Open titles. His playoff round of 75 would be two lower than Simpson's. A triumphant fist pump from Stewart donning a red and white striped NFL Super Bowl shirt and one 'FORE' cleat off of the ground remains the memorable still from the tournament. A signed letter of provenance from Hal Sutton will accompany this lot.
The Hal Sutton Collection
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. <br><br>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."
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