The most costly publicly recognized Tiger Woods buying and selling card sale occurred early Friday morning through public sale — albeit with slightly assist from LeBron James and their shared birthday.
A 2009 Higher Deck Beautiful patch autographed card of Woods and James serial numbered to a few bought for $552,000 through Fanatics Accumulate, which incorporates the customer’s premium. The cardboard consists of swatches of a James game-worn Cleveland Cavaliers jersey and a Woods tournament-worn golf shirt.
It’s taken practically 5 years for Woods’ earlier prime card sale file to be damaged. A 2001 Higher Deck SP Genuine Golf gold autographed rookie card numbered to 100 with a Gem-Mint PSA 10 grade bought for $336,000 on March 8, 2021 through Goldin.
Whereas Higher Deck held unique autograph rights for each Woods and James after they signed the cardboard (James now has an unique cope with Fanatics), the individuality of the cardboard lies in how every inscribed their shared birthday. Woods inked “12/30/75” and James “12-30-84,” with this being the one one of many three playing cards throughout the serial numbered set to incorporate this inscription.
Prolonged bidding for the Premier Public sale begins an hour early tonight at 6PM PST 🚨 pic.twitter.com/oAfFZZVF03
— Fanatics Accumulate (@FanaticsCollect) January 22, 2026
Woods’ top-tier card market has heated up since September 2025. The 15-time main champion tallied his fourth, fifth and seventh costliest card gross sales between Sept. 11 and Oct. 2, with gross sales ranging between $167,000 and $218,000, in response to on-line card gross sales database Card Ladder.
Nevertheless, the Woods/James card isn’t even the very best priced James card to promote inside Fanatics Accumulate’s January Premier public sale. James’ 2003 Topps Chrome gold refractor numbered to 50 with a PSA 10 grade bought for $1.11 million. 4 different copies of this card have ever bought for extra starting from $792,000 to $1.2 million with these occurring between January 2022 and February 2023.
The most costly public sale for a card of reigning NBA MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander additionally occurred early Friday morning. His 2024 Panini Revolution Kaboom! Inexperienced one-of-one insert card with a PSA 10 grade bought for $432,000, greater than $200,000 greater than the earlier prime mark for an SGA card.
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