Tiger Woods' iron set shatters golf memorabilia record with $5M sale

An iron set Tiger Woods used to capture four consecutive majors set a new record for golf memorabilia at auction Saturday.

The Titleist 681-T iron set - which helped Woods win what came to be known as the "Tiger Slam" in 2000 and 2001 - sold for $5,156,162 at Golden Age Auctions. The price shattered the previous golf memorabilia record held by Horton Smith's green jacket, which sold for $682,000 in 2013, according to ESPN's Tom VanHaaren.

The irons previously belonged to Todd Brock, a private equity investor from Houston. Brock purchased the set at auction in 2010 for $57,242 from former Titleist vice president of player promotions Steve Mata.

"I've had them for 12 years now, and I haven't told anybody that I owned them," Brock told ESPN. "They were in a really nice frame in my office, and I'm not an investor in memorabilia, so nobody was seeing the irons.

"I've had the opportunity to see these for 12 years, and it's like a Rembrandt where somebody takes it to their castle, and it's never seen again. I felt blessed that I got to hang out with them and look at them, but it's time for somebody else to do something bigger and better with them."

Brock said he plans to put the money from the sale toward his foundation.