UPDATE: Donald Trump's Golf Clubs Sold for Nearly $30k at Auction

Trump personally-owned and used full set of TaylorMade golf irons that he later gifted to his former Bedminster caddie up for sale

(BOSTON, MA) — Donald Trump's personal golf irons will be auctioned by Boston-based RR Auction.

The Trump personally-owned and used full set of TaylorMade RAC TP ForgedIrons, 3-PW, gifted to his personal caddie, Andrew Lombardo, at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey.
Each iron features a True Temper Dynamic Gold S300 shaft with red-and-black Golf Pride Dual Durometer grip, and the hosel of each clubhead is engraved, “D. Trump.”

From 2004 to 2008, Andrew Lombardo served as Assistant Caddie Master and Director of Outdoor Operations while employed at Bedminster, caddying for Trump over 100 times from the day the club first opened until his resignation in 2008, including twice during the filming of The Apprentice.

“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,” said Lombardo in a letter of provenance.

According to Lombardo, Trump exclusively used these irons for a two-and-a-half month period while playing with and against a variety of celebrities, powerful businesspeople, and golf professionals at Bedminster.

“These Trump-used irons are of the utmost rarity and represent the well-documented relationship between the sport of golf and the nation’s commander-in-chief,” said Bobby Livingston, Executive VP at RR Auction.

After premiering West Palm Beach’s Trump International Golf Club in 1999, Trump proceeded to amass a total of 17 idyllic courses in a span of two decades, with locations that include the Hudson Valley, Scotland, and Dubai, with another set to open in Indonesia next year.

The 36-hole Bedminster club, slated to host the 2017 US Women's Open, has since become a stronghold for many notable Trump events. It served as the wedding site of his daughter Ivanka and Jared Kushner in 2009, and then, in the wake of the 2016 election, the meeting grounds for the presidential transition team.

Recently, President Trump’s weekend golf outings—which have mostly been to his Florida courses, due to the weather—have been generating controversial headlines and receiving widespread media coverage. He made one long-weekend visit to Bedminster in May, and is expected to go there more frequently in the summer months.

The Fine Autographs and Artifacts Auction from RR Auction began on June 26 and will conclude on July 12. More details, can be found online at www.rrauction.com.

UPDATE

Donald Trump's golf clubs sold for nearly $30k at auction

(BOSTON, MA) - Donald Trump's personal golf irons sold for $29,798 according to Boston-based RR Auction.

The Trump personally-owned and used full set of TaylorMade RAC TP ForgedIrons, 3-PW, gifted to his personal caddie, Andrew Lombardo, at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey.

Each iron features a True Temper Dynamic Gold S300 shaft with red-and-black Golf Pride Dual Durometer grip, and the hosel of each clubhead is engraved, “D. Trump.”

From 2004 to 2008, Lombardo served as Assistant Caddie Master and Director of Outdoor Operations while employed at Bedminster, caddying for Trump over 100 times from the day the club first opened until his resignation in 2008, including twice during the filming of The Apprentice.

“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,” said Lombardo in a letter of provenance. According to Lombardo, Trump exclusively used these irons for a two-and-a-half month period while playing with and against a variety of celebrities, powerful businesspeople, and golf professionals at Bedminster.

“Bidding for the golf clubs went back and forth between a gentleman from New Jersey and the eventual winner from California,” said Bobby Livingston, Executive VP at RR Auction. “The new owner was quite interested because of the quality and provenance of these clubs that had belonged to the future President.”

The Fine Autographs and Artifacts Auction from RR Auction began on June 26 and concluded on July 12. More details, can be found online at www.rrauction.com.