Tiger Woods Signed 1997 Masters Commemorative Poster JSA COA

This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 4/14/2013

The 1997 Masters was Tiger Wood's breakthrough victory, and the beginning of Tiger Mania. Merchandise from this historic victory always commands a high price when it can be located. The 1997 Masters flag sells for thousands unsigned much less signed by TIGER WOODS! This poster is just as rare as very few examples of the 1997 poster surface. This Poster was signed in the presence of Mark O'Meara's former caddy Donnie Wanstall. It has been professionally framed to an overall size of 33x40. Autographed poster comes with a COA from JSA the leader in sports authenication.

This Lot is Part of the Donnie Wanstall Collection.

The Golf Auction is excited to have been selected to auction off the Donnie Wanstall collection. Donnie was a PGA Tour caddy for many years carrying the bag for such major champions as Mark O'Meara, Curtis Strange, Tom Watson, and top PGA pros such as John Cook, Tom Purtzer and others. Donnie is a member of the Professional Caddies Association and was on the bag for 14 PGA tour wins and several Ryder Cup victories. In 1994 Donnie was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) at the Players Championship.

Here is a link to an article about Donnie:
http://jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/101901/pat_7592533.html

His collection was amassed over many years of collecting items while on Tour as well as the kindness of many of his PGA friends and players. In 1994 there was a famous fundraising auction that netted over $150,000 for Donnie and helped to establish the formation of the Caddies Assistance Fund. At that auction PGA players such as Payne Stewart and others took the microphone to help auction off memorabilia to support the cause. Since then, Mark O'Meara has also been of assistance to Donnie in seeing that Tiger Woods autographed items from his major victories. Many of these items are up for bid, please select the Donnie Wanstall collection link on the left hand side of the page. All of these items come from Donnie directly with the items and autographs being directly obtained by him.

The Golf Auction wishes to be a part of the fight to find a cure for MS and will donate five percent (5%) of the gross sale price realized from the Wanstall collection to multiple sclerosis research.

Session 1: Lots 1-500 will end on 4/11/13 and Session 2 Lots 500+ will end on 4/14/13 with extended bidding to start at 9:00 PM EST for both sessions. In order to bid in extended bidding you must place a bid on the lot before 9pm on auction closing day.