President Donald Trump’s golf clubs up for auction

Since the 4^th of July is just around the corner, RR Auction thought it would only be appropriate to hold an event worthy of this occasion that somehow relates to the national day and to the American national spirit. As a result, collectors have the unique opportunity to bid on President Donald Trump’s personally owned and used golf clubs.

According to Golfweek, President Trump is said to spend this 4^th of July weekend in Bedminster, at Trump National. Despite the negative coverage that quite a few of his golf clubs got in the media lately regarding the fake Time Magazine covers, the President does not seem to be one bit concerned with this issue of negative publicity.

In any case, the golf clubs that are up for auction were gifted by Donald Trump to his former Bedminster caddie, Andrew Lombardo who caddied for the President for at least 100 times between 2004 and 2008. He has held on to the golf clubs for over a decade, as opposed to their initial owner, Donald Trump, who only used them for a short period of time. Andrew Lombardo himself is the one who stated that Donald Trump only used the clubs for about two and a half months when he played against or with several celebrities, businessmen and even with professional golf players.

The golf clubs are basically a full set of TaylorMade RAC TP ForgedIrons, 3-PW. Each and every iron in the set has a True Temper Dynamic Gold S300 shaft on top of black and red Golf Pride Dual Durometer grip. On top of that, the hosel of each club head carries the marking „D. Trump”. The clubs are in fine condition and only have light signs of use, which is probably the main reason why they were estimated at the impressive amount of $30,000.

One great thing about this item is the fact that it comes with a notarized letter of provenance from Andrew Lombardo himself. Part of the letter reads: „The set of TaylorMade TP Rac’s with (D. Trump) engraved on them were given to Mr. Trump by the TaylorMade CEO Mark King at the TaylorMade Media Day we had at Trump National Golf Club - Bedminster when we became a TaylorMade club and the clubs were used by Mr. Trump for the rest of the season. The clubs were put in our bag room for the winter and next season Mr. Trump had a new set of clubs from TaylorMade. I knew the first set of irons were special and so beautiful, they were the only set of forged blades, the first set that TaylorMade gave to Mr. Trump and the only set that had (D. Trump) engraved on them, all the sets after that I saw were cavity backed with (DJT1) engraved on them. I waited for the right moment to ask Mr. Trump for the clubs, I personally asked Mr. Trump and he told me to ask the head pro (Mickie Gallagher), which I did and he said yes.” This notarized letter of provenance does not only prove the authenticity of the item, but it also shows that the clubs have a more intricate history than anyone had anticipated.

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