Ed Fiori's Masters Ltd Ed Lenox Commemorative Plate #11 with Box & Card - 1997

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Ed Fiori's Masters Ltd Ed Lenox Commemorative Plate #11 with Box & Card - 1997

This is a highly presentable green and gold plate that is also known to be difficult to find, produced as Augusta National Golf Club gift. Distribution was short and simple, ANGC members and Masters players received two plates a year from 1992 to 1997. This plate is numbered 11 and the year it was produced is also noted on the back (1997). The plate has an 11" diameter and it is in excellent condition. It was given to Ed Fiori when he was invited to participate in the 1997 Masters, an eye-witness to Tiger Woods' domination. This plate comes in very good condition, with its card and while it is presented in its original white gifting box that does have some discoloration.

Ed Fiori Collection

'If you want something enough you can get it', is how the old saying goes. A youngster in the Los Angeles Suburb of Downey, California took it upon himself to get some work in at the local 9-hole golf course. It would be through a barbed wire fence that Ed Fiori would gain entry to that course in the early 1960's. Fast-forward over thirty years and Fiori found himself on the same tee box as the newly professional 20-year-old Tiger Woods in the final round of the PGA Tour's Quad City Classic. Holding the trophy at the end of that day and denying the dazzling Woods his first professional win was all worth it. It would be one of four trophies that Ed Fiori would hoist after his University of Houston collegiate career. The 1979 Southern Open, 1981 Western Open, 1982 Bob Hope Desert Classic and last, but not least, the 1996 Quad City Classic tied up a successful golfing career at the hands of "The Grip." That nickname came naturally to him, as he squeezed the club significantly harder than his tour cohorts. While small in stature at 5'7," Fiori would leave a large golfing legacy when he took down Tiger Woods, which until 2009, would be the only 54-hole lead snatched away from Woods. The Ed Fiori Collection includes prized possessions earned from his sticktoitiveness on the PGA Tour scattered with triumphs along the way.

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