For a second time in two years, a claret jug owned by John Daly is up for auction. But this time, it looks like it’s actually going to sell. And fetch a much higher price.
Heritage Auctions currently has a spoil from Daly’s surprising victory at St Andrews in 1995, one of two Player’s Jugs purchased by the golfer. (The winner of the British Open gets to keep the actual claret jug for one year, but can purchase replicas of the trophy.)
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In 2016, Green Jacket Auctions pulled this item, which had drawn a bid of $US10,000 a few days into bidding, shortly after this tweet from Daly:
Green Jacket Auctions then released a statement saying, “We have reached an agreement with John Daly’s management to withdraw this trophy.”
But now, this trophy has resurfaced, and Heritage Auctions “stresses to interested parties that there is no ownership controversy today and that this is indeed the one and only John Daly Claret Jug available to the collecting public”. However, we can’t know for sure if he ever ate ice cream out of this one.
As of Thursday morning, the current bid was already $US28,000, but Heritage Auctions values the trophy at $100,000. Bidding is open until February 25, Australian time.
